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The Upper Room – May 18, 2025
Read the Passage: John 15:1-17
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In this sermon, Pastor Tim conveys a message on the importance of returning to a childlike, dependent faith in Jesus, characterized by truly abiding in Him. Using John 15’s metaphor of Jesus as the “true vine” and believers as the branches, Pastor Tim explores what it means to live a Jesus-abiding life through an intimate connection with Christ. This includes a willingness to accept pruning — the painful process of God removing unhealthy parts of our lives to foster spiritual growth and fruitfulness.
This week’s message also emphasizes that a genuine Christian life must be rooted in abiding (or permanently residing) in Jesus, which is core to producing spiritual fruit reflecting Christ’s character. Prayer is highlighted as a primary activity to foster this connection.
We are called to examine our habits, to cultivate those that stir affection for Jesus and cut off those that drain love or joy, embracing the ongoing process of spiritual transformation through love, pruning, fruitfulness, and intimate relationship with God.
The Upper Room – May 11, 2025
Read the Passage: John 15:18-16:1
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Many start their spiritual journeys with passion but struggle to maintain consistent commitment due to discomfort, inconvenience, or lack of drive. The core question raised is: How can one follow Jesus for a lifetime, not just after fleeting emotional experiences but in a sustainable way?
Using scripture from John 15:18-27 and John 16:1, Pastor David Cay emphasizes the need to expect trouble, opposition, and even hatred for followers of Christ. Jesus himself warned his disciples that persecution and rejection were inevitable because Christians do not belong to the world but are chosen out of it. The speaker stresses that having the right mentality—expecting difficulties and understanding their inevitability—is vital to prevent believers from falling away from faith.
This message offers Christians both encouragement and realism, merging scriptural teaching with practical, personal experiences to explain how to sustain faith long-term amid inevitable hardships. It challenges believers to shift their paradigms around Christian living—from expecting ease to embracing endurance and community—ultimately pointing toward the promise of God’s abiding presence and goodness along the way.
The Upper Room – May 4, 2025
Read the passage: John 14:1-24
What if there is a bigger world out there that is more real than anything we know? What if someone came to us from the world outside, and told us the truth about our world? What if that person couldn’t stay in our world, but they had to leave. But before they left, they told us how to get to the place where they lived?
As Christians, these are not just hypothetical questions – this is actually our story. The story of Jesus is that he came from outside of our world. He told us the truth about our world. He couldn’t stay with us, but he had to leave. Before he left, however, he told us how to get to the place where he lives. Jesus gave us a way to be close to him, even before we get to his world.
The Upper Room – April 27, 2025
Read the passage: John 13:1-17
This week we’re starting a new sermon series on the Upper Room.
It’s about some of Jesus’ most important conversations with his disciples. And today’s conversation is about radical service.
Jesus gave us a standard (and it’s a high standard) for serving others. He wants us to have an attitude of radical love that extends not just to our friends but also to our enemies. It’s an attitude that is difficult to have.
Jesus also wants us to serve both people’s physical and spiritual needs. We need both! So we get our hands dirty helping people. We follow the Holy Spirit into love and joy (the fruits of the Holy Spirit) and we use our gifts to help people with the problems of their heart.
Easter – April 20, 2025
Romans 6:1-14
Happy Easter everyone!
Now for those who don’t know what Easter is even about, I have really good news for you. It’s much more than Cadbury Mini Eggs going on sale soon, though that is a huge bonus.
Easter is the celebration of the Empty Tomb after Jesus died. Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus! And there are so many lessons and truths to ponder on but today, I want to focus on the really good news on how the resurrection offers us true FREEDOM.
The resurrection of Jesus gives us:
1. Freedom FROM Sin
2. Freedom FOR New Life.
The Book of Judges – April 13, 2025
Judges 16
Sometimes, being distracted matters, especially when we are distracted spiritually. Maybe you feel lost, and you don’t know where you are going. Or maybe your relationship with God feels lethargic and you feel apathetic in obeying Him. These are all symptoms of spiritual blindness that we all wrestle with.
Take heart! We have a God who wants to free us from our spiritual problems. He helps us with stories from the Bible. Today, I want to talk about the story of Samson, a man blessed with supernatural strength.
He’s kind of like the Bible’s version of the Incredible Hulk! He’s a literal one-man army. Here’s some context before we read our main passage, Samson had just fought against a thousand Philistine enemies all by himself. They attacked him when he didn’t have a weapon, so he found a random bone lying on the ground, and he killed all his enemies with it. Which is crazy, but it just shows how invincible he was! So, after killing an army of Philistines, he heads to Gaza which was their capital city!
The Book of Judges – April 6, 2025
Judges 3:12-30
In this sermon, Pastor Enoch discusses how ordinary people can tackle extraordinary problems, using the biblical story of Ehud from the book of Judges as a case study.
The narrative begins with the Israelites suffering under the oppression of King Eglon of Moab, who ruled for 18 years. Pastor Enoch emphasizes that while Ehud’s actions—lying and killing—may seem morally ambiguous, they are framed within the larger context of warfare and divine deliverance. Ehud, a left-handed man, utilized his unique physical attributes and extensive preparation to assassinate the king and liberate the Israelites.
The sermon suggests that solving significant problems requires extraordinary reasons, preparation, and perspective. The speaker draws parallels between Ehud’s courage and modern figures like Florence Nightingale, emphasizing the necessity of dedication and service to a greater cause.
The key takeaway is that with extraordinary motives and proper preparation, individuals can achieve remarkable results while recognizing that ultimate success is a partnership with divine intervention.
(The above summary was partially generated by AI, and reviewed by a human)
The Book of Judges – March 30, 2025
Judges 8:22-33
How does “Successful” become “Dreadful”?
Successful becomes Dreadful when there is a disconnect between:
1. The head and the heart
2. The everyday and the eternal
We’ll be using a man named Gideon as our case study! But specifically, we’re looking at his post-success life. So just a quick recap on Gideon’s life. Gideon is one of the judges of Israel, but he isn’t your typical hero. When we first meet him, he’s literally hiding in a winepress trying to keep his food safe from his enemies. And then an angel pops up and calls him to rescue Israel because they have been dominated by the Midianites for 7 years! But Gideon is a coward. Full of doubts.
He asks God for miraculous signs, twice! And God is gracious and gives it to him. When Gideon said yes to God’s calling, God adds a plot twist and says that instead of 30 thousand men that Gideon had, God reduces the army’s number to 300 and they go into battle with torches, jars and trumpets. And the crazy thing is, they win! They win against 135 000 soldiers (Judges 8:10). And the people of his nation, the Israelites, are so so happy! And they try to raise Gideon as their leader and king. And that’s where our Bible passage begins.
The Book of Judges – March 23, 2025
Judges 4:1-27
As Christians we have a God who is invisible by nature, and sometimes it feels like all we have is a bunch of theory that feels dry and not very satisfying. But every one of us is meant to experience God for ourselves. And Jesus told us how we can experience God. Jesus said to his disciples:
“Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” (John 14:21)
In other words, if we love Jesus enough to keep his commands, he will show himself to us. But, the hard part is keeping his commands. Because, keeping his commands means really following Jesus with our life, even when it’s difficult. And, that takes courage.
So, our Bible story today is about courage. My big idea today is, if we want to experience God we need courageous faith. And courageous faith means two things. First, we need courageous reasoning, and second, we need courageous action.