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Titus: Building Community – August 15, 2021

Titus 2:9-10

Pastor Tony Henshall

How should any of us respond to personal injustice?
That’s my big question today.

I think we’ve all experienced some type of personal injustice.
It happens all the time: rude drivers;
people who cut you off in traffic,
or bud in line ups at the cashier, even unfair policies or practices at work.

Today we are going to learn from people who lived in extreme injustice.
They were slaves in the Roman empire.
We need to learn from them because Jesus tells US to be servants,

And he tells us the greatest among us will be the slave to all.

Titus: Building Community – August 8, 2021

Titus 1:10-12

Pastor David Cay
NOTE OF CORRECTION: In the sermon, at the 15:26 mark, Pastor David incorrectly referenced a person in his story about “Silver Solution”. The person that Pastor David meant to refer to was “Jim Bakker”. Pastor David apologizes for the error.

My question today is: In the Christian life, in what ways do Christians get it wrong?

Today I want to talk about two common errors that happen when we live the Christian life. They have serious ramifications and can lead you into a lot of trouble.

These two errors are legalism, and the so called “prosperity gospel”. Legalism is a rule based religion that easily takes away our joy and the “prosperity gospel” is a religion based on consumption; the main goal is getting worldly goods. Our Bible passage today will help us to understand both errors.

Titus: Building Community – August 1, 2021

Titus 1:5

Pastor Enoch Chee

We’re starting a new sermon series today in the book of Titus. The book was written by the apostle Paul. Paul was possibly the greatest Christian to have ever lived. He was certainly one of the greatest leaders in church history. And Paul had certain advantages over a regular person.

God was with Paul in special ways so that he could do miracles seemingly on demand. He also had access to supernatural wisdom and knowledge. Time and again, he showed that he could speak for God, which is why the church recognized his writings as inspired Scripture.

Paul was special, but he was just one person, and part of the genius of Paul was that he gathered people around him to share the work. One of his coworkers was a guy named Titus.

The story goes that one time Paul was visiting the island of Crete with Titus. They were working with the Christians there, but there was a ton of work to do, because the churches in Crete were in really rough shape.

So Paul left Titus on that island to find leaders for those churches. Leaders who had a proven track record, especially in their home life.

So my big idea for today is: To prepare for leadership, we need to control our vices, and build our virtues.

Ecclesiastes: Our Culture’s Wisdom – July 25, 2021

Ecclesiastes 9:9-10

Pastor David Cay

My question today is: how do we respond to the brevity of life? How do we make the most of the life that God has given us?

As we have said in previous sermons, the teacher in our passage is not a Christian. He is more of an agnostic, and he speaks with our culture’s wisdom. Ironically, this is where cultural wisdom is totally right, and it matches with the Biblical wisdom we find in other parts of the Bible.

Here’s the message of the Bible, to deal with brevity of life, we need to:

  1. Seize the day for joy, and
  2. Seize the day for work.

Ecclesiastes: Our Culture’s Wisdom – July 11, 2021

Ecclesiastes 7:15-17

Pastor David Cay

My question today is this: Should we aim to live an extreme lifestyle, or opt to live for a more normal life?

Most of us are headed toward a normal life because quite frankly it’s easier. The cost isn’t as high, it’s way more comfortable. There is a lot of social pressure to be like everyone else, to have the same worldview and the same opinions. Many times, we automatically just drift toward what’s common.

We do have a choice, and I think it’s worth choosing because we find that there is a better option between the two, and we learn that when we reflect on our Bible passage today.

Ecclesiastes: Our Culture’s Wisdom – July 4, 2021

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

Timothy Nguyen

As Pastor David mentioned last week, the teacher in our Bible passage gives us a wide scope of worldly wisdom. And in his worldly wisdom, he says life is vain, or even meaningless. But then he says, despite his pointless and confusing life, it’s still better to be together.

So for us, as Christians who don’t believe that life is meaningless, how much more important is it for us to seek community and teamwork? So this writer’s worldly wisdom is even more valuable for us because we believe its effects will last forever.

Ecclesiastes: Our Culture’s Wisdom – June 27, 2021

Ecclesiastes 3:19-22

Pastor David Cay

We live in a secular culture where a lot of people view the world in terms of just atoms, energy and what they can see. Many atheists make arguments and assumptions that all this spiritual stuff isn’t real.

There are many agnostics who say that there’s not enough evidence to believe in a god or an afterlife, so we can’t really know. Therefore, truly the “enlightened” wouldn’t believe in God or an afterlife; this is all there is.

I know it can feel intimidating talking to someone about faith at work or like at school and talking with intellectuals. But the Bible encourages us not to be afraid, to not avoid people with atheist/agnostic worldviews.

Instead, we should create genuine friendships with atheists and agnostics. We should be ready to explain the reason for the hope that we have in Jesus. Our Bible passage today makes us think about what many atheists and agnostics have proposed today in our culture.

Ecclesiastes: Our Culture’s Wisdom – June 20, 2021

Ecclesiastes 2:10-11

Timothy Nguyen

This week, we’re starting a new series in the book of Ecclesiastes.

The narrator of the book goes through a bunch of different aspects of life and then concludes, “it’s all fleeting so therefore it’s pointless.”

Meaningless. Vain.

Today, we get to take a quick look at what he says in regards to chasing pleasure. Our big question today is: what is the point of worldly pleasure?

My big idea today is: worldly pleasure is a means to an end.

The Sermon on the Mount – June 13, 2021

Matthew 7:1-6

Pastor David Cay

Our culture in many ways has become very moralistic where people need to behave and believe a certain way or they will be scorned or “cancelled” (the phenomenon is called “cancel culture”). So my question today is how should we respond to the moral failures of other people?

If we are truly honest, all of us fail morally all the time! Yet Christians are well known for being judgmental!

A recent study showed that 9 out of 10 non Christians believe that the term “judgmental” accurately describes present day Christianity.

So how we respond to our question today will determine whether Christians will bring division or healing. Our passage today comes from Matthew 7: 1-6.

Our Bible passage tells us that we need to:

  1. Remember our own sin a
  2. Respond if helpful