Leveraging Summer for God’s Glory & Mission – We want to hear your ideas and stories
Posted May 28th, 2014 by Mike Hubbard
On Sunday we will commission our team headed to Charleston as missionaries, but we will also be looking at the entire summer as a time of possibility. With kids out of school and families more likely to be hanging out in yards or parks, Summer is a terrific time to be thinking about living on […]
Posted in Jesus and the Gospel, Living the Gospel | Tags: Gospel Summer
Old Testament in 10 Minutes, New Testament in 10 Minutes
Posted February 10th, 2014 by Mike Hubbard
Reading and understanding the Bible can be challenging. The Bible is telling one grand narrative about God’s redemption and rescue of His people. But that grand story is filled with a number of smaller stories along with other literature and teaching. There are laws, poems, prophetic writings and sermons, wisdom sayings, and commentary wrapped into […]
Posted in Jesus and the Gospel, Theological issues | Tags: The Bible
Propitiation and Expiation – What Jesus Accomplished on the Cross
Posted March 28th, 2013 by Mike Hubbard
This weekend we celebrate Jesus! OK, so we celebrate Jesus every weekend, and hopefully every day of our lives, but the weekend of Good Friday and Easter are special days for us to stop and consider what Jesus did for us, in our place. At the heart of the event is the death of Jesus […]
Posted in Jesus and the Gospel, Theological issues | Tags: Good Friday
My Friends Call Me… The Name of God in Exodus 3 and the Rest of the Bible
Posted March 24th, 2013 by Mike Hubbard
Exodus 3 is the account of an amazing conversation between Moses and God, as God speaks from a burning bush that is not consumed. In the story God gives Moses a new name for himself, a name that His people will use in the context of covenant relationship. While the name, Yahweh is used in […]
Posted in General, Jesus and the Gospel, Sermon Thoughts | Tags: Names of God
Discovering Idolatry – Issues of Faith, Hope, and Love
Posted March 6th, 2013 by Mike Hubbard
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three… I Corinthians 13:13 John Calvin said the human heart is an idol factory. Augustine, who lived in the fourth century and is one of the greatest thinkers in the history of the church said, “Idolatry is worshiping anything that ought to be used and using anything […]
Posted in Jesus and the Gospel, Sermon Thoughts | Tags: Idolatry, The Gospel
