Sermons

Did you know that pledging and giving an offering benefits you spiritually? Pastor Thom, through the Bible verses Exodus 35:21 and 1 Corinthians 16.2, teaches us these 10 things about this: 1. Our offerings are given to God 2. Every Christian needs to give 3. Our offerings should be willing 4. Offerings need to be money 5. Offerings need to be affordable 6. Offerings need to be regular 7. Offerings are for the support of ministry 8. Offerings are given so that the church will never be in need 9. Offerings need to be from our hearts 10. Our offerings need to be joyful Note: we had some technical difficulties for about the first minute with the video, so please hang in there!

We experience emptiness in life in many ways, and that can make us feel sad, frustrated or depressed. But the opposite of this is our hope in Jesus Christ. Read along with us in 1 Peter 1:17-21 in the Bible and learn more!

How can we be right with God, right with other people and right with ourselves? One way is to always have God on your mind. Read along with us in the Bible at 1 Peter 1:15-16!

This is the third of 4 sermons on the passage in the Bible, 1 Peter 1:13-16. This time, Pastor Thom emphasizes how Christians should be different from the rest of the world. We can be different in righteousness, morality and justice. Read along with us and hear what Thom teaches us about these three things.

What does it mean to be holy? Why does God want Christians to be holy? How do we live holy? Can Christians really be holy?? To learn more, read 1 Peter 1:13-16 with us! Here's a hint: check out Pastor Thom's sermon video playlist for "The 8 Things"!

First Peter 1:16 quotes the Old Testament (Leviticus 11:44) when he says "Be holy, because I am holy." Yeah, God is consistent throughout His Word, both in the Old and New Testaments (which is just a name we give the Jewish Bible and the 4 Gospels with the Epistles, respectively). But what does being "holy" mean? It means to be different and have the self-control as given by the Holy Spirit. Christians are not to act like people who have never been saved by Jesus Christ. There are a lot of things in this world that is considered normal, but is never to be assumed as regular behavior by Christians. Will Christians sin? Yes, because we still have our old bodies in this world. But we must never persist in this behavior. Know that it's a process the Holy Spirit is putting us through. Read along with us in 1 Peter 1:13-16 to learn more!

Did you know that angels are not like God, who knows everything? Instead, angels are a little like you and me, in the sense that there are things they long for and that they don't know. But we have at least one advantage over angels, and that is that we can know grace through Christ's salvation, which is not something angels will ever know as we can. Read the Bible along with us at 1 Peter 1:10-12 and learn more about this for yourself!

"In this world, we will have troubles", Jesus says. But we as Christians can always have hope because of this same Jesus and His salvation which promises eternal life with Him in heaven. Pastor Thom tells us what that hope is all about in this 2nd sermon in the series about the first epistle of the apostle Peter. Read along with us in the Bible at 1 Peter 1:3-9 to learn with us!