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We are made for the love of God — to receive the love of God, to return love back to God, and to reflect it towards others. So when the Law Expert in Matthew 22 asks Jesus which is the greatest commandment, his answer is, of course, oriented towards the love of God. In this sermon, Chandler McCosh preaches on Matthew 22:34-46, walking us through how Jesus reveals and fulfills the Great Commandment.

Whose image is this? Jesus' question about a Roman coin turns a political trap into something far more personal. If Caesar's image marks what belongs to Caesar, where has God stamped his image? And if we belong to God, what do we owe the powers that rule over us? Drawing on Colossians 1 and the early church fathers, Deacon Luke Elmers preaches from Matthew 22:15-22.

Parables like that of the wedding banquet found in Matthew 22:1-14 can leave us feeling uncomfortable or confused. What are we to make of Jesus’ teaching that can seem disorienting, harsh, or exclusive? Pastor Jordan Kologe helps us understand the significance of this parable and hear the invitation of a loving, generous God.

Psalm 25 is an instructional poem, one that has been written specifically to teach people how to pray. The psalmist wants us to understand that instruction is important for the practice of prayer and our continued salvation. The life of prayer is incomplete unless there are pleas that ask "Teach me, instruct me, guide me, make known to me the way I am to go." Deacon Cindy Hamilton guides us in praying the Psalms.

The Parable of the Two Sons teaches us of a Father who is always love and ever bids his wandering children to come home. On this child-led Sunday, Pastor Jordan Kologe reminds us of the extravagant love of God for his children.

It’s easy to fall prey to envy. Jesus speaks to this vice in the Parable of the Workers, Through this parable found in Matthew 20:1-16, Pastor Jordan Kologe teaches about God through the lens of the vineyard owner, about ourselves through the workers, and how we can confront envy when it rises in our hearts.

Paul closes his letter to the Corinthian church with five commands, showing them how to live out the faith rooted in the gospel. Bishop Ken Ross closes this series on 1 Corinthians, imparting the same relevant charge to us in our context.

We tend to think our failures and thankless tasks have nothing to do with eternity. Paul disagrees. Writing to a fractured, quarreling church about the resurrection of the body, he insists that what is sown in dishonor and weakness will be raised in glory and power, and that even a small, unnoticed act of faithfulness participates in that future. Pastor Lisa Elmers preaches from 1 Corinthians 15-16 on the surprising continuity between our everyday labor and the life to come.

Paul tells the Corinthian church that if Christ has not been raised, faith is in vain. Jesus’ bodily resurrection gives meaning to our past, present, and future. Teaching from 1 Corinthians 15, Pastor Jordan Kologe explores three implications of Christ’s resurrection: assurance of the forgiveness of sins, start of the new creation, and freedom to give one’s life away.

What happens when God really shows up at church? In 1 Corinthians 14, Paul invites us to expect more than ideas about God: the living God is among his people. We’ll explore the strange and often misunderstood gift of prophecy and how God speaks through ordinary Christians to strengthen, encourage, comfort, and bring light.

How do we live out Christianity without missing the point? The Corinthian church boasted about spiritual gifts and ecstatic experiences but missed what mattered. Paul tells them their spirituality means nothing without love. We too can make the same mistake by focusing on good things that aren’t the most important. Pastor Jordan Kologe explores 1 Corinthians 13, explaining what love is not, what it is, and why it lasts.

Sometimes we can lose sight of the fact that spiritual gifts are truly are gifts, graciously bestowed on us by a loving Father through the Spirit to build up the body of Christ. Spiritual gifts are “grace-gifts,” given to us by the God who delights in his people. Exploring 1 Corinthians 12, Chandler McCosh explains how gifts are given by grace, diverse by design, and build up the body.

Paul wrote to the Corinthian church to correct how they were treating the Lord’s Supper. The rich were eating well while the poor went hungry, causing division instead of unity. From their mistakes and Paul’s teaching we learn that honoring Christ’s table means remembering his sacrifice, sharing in his body, and looking forward to his kingdom. Pastor Jordan Kologe preaches from 1 Corinthians 11.

Paul's greatest concern was not to hinder the gospel of Christ.  In 1 Corinthians 9:22 he wrote, "I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some."  The question for us is how we win some for Christ, and by what means? Deacon Cindy Hamilton teaches that we begin by praying for a heart for the lost and for opportunities to share our faith. "Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have."

We tend to think freedom means more choices, more independence, fewer people we have to answer to. Paul turns that instinct inside out. True freedom, he argues, is often found in constraint, in dependence, and in surrendering our rights for the good of the vulnerable ones beside us. Luke Elmers preaches from 1 Corinthians 8-10, tracing three paradoxes of Christian freedom back to the cross, where the strongest person who ever lived gave himself up entirely for the weak.