Pastor Rich Nathan offers really wise advice on what we should set our hope on during the Coronavirus pandemic. Our hope is anchored in the past: Jesus rose! Our hope remains in the present: Jesus lives! Our hope is completed in the future: Jesus is coming!
Christian hope is not falsely optimistic, but realistic. Most importantly, it results in God glorifying those who trust in Him!
Pastor Rich walks us through Psalm 46 and other scriptures to demonstrate how God is our refuge and continues to be the One who makes our lives secure even during a trying time like the age of the Coronavirus.
Pastor Rich teaches us how we can choose not to worry during the Age of the Coronavirus because God is in control, He loves us, and will care for us. In addition, he encourages us to love our neighbor by caring for one another during this time of crisis.
Pastor Rich will be concluding our series "What Are You Waiting For?" with a Christmas Eve message focusing on"The Light Has Come" from John 1
Pastor Rich continues in the Advent series titled What Are You Waiting For? In the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth from Luke 1:5-25, we can learn how to wait well. Learning to wait well has to do with dealing with the lies we believe about God. Lies like he doesn’t remember us, or remember our prayers, or that he has forgotten us. The only thing that God doesn’t remember is our sin! Come and be encouraged!
Pastor Rich begins a new series for Advent with a sermon about how to be people who wait well. He talks about Israel waiting in exile; waiting for deliverance; waiting for God's Word, and refers to scripture from Luke 3.
Pastor Rich Nathan concludes the Just Pray series, and talks about how to overcome temptation using scripture from Matthew 6:13. He talks about the three marks of temptation and the times temptation is most likely to come and concludes with two prayers we can pray to help us overcome temptation.
Pastor Rich Nathan continues in the series called Just Pray, and looks at the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13. Pastor Rich focus is on the phrase, “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.” Pastor Rich also talks about what God promises us when we pray for his kingdom to come. For the depressed it means celebration, and for the guilty it means forgiveness.
Pastor Rich Nathan delivers a powerful message on learning through a personal relationship with Jesus.
Pastor Rich Nathan delivers a message entitled "How to Know that You're a Child of God." Pastor Rich helps us to explore what it means to be a child of our Father. How do we know that we are “Children of God”?
Pastor Rich Nathan kicks off our new series with an introduction to the Holy Spirit in his sermon The Holy Spirit I Never Knew. Pastor Rich talks about confusion people have about the Holy Spirit and the various ways the Holy Spirit is pictured in Scripture. It is symbolized as a dove, as wind, and as a helper. What do these things mean? The Bible says the Spirit is God’s right hand. We can experience the touch of God through the Holy Spirit.
Pastor Rich Nathan preaches from the thought of living a good and meaningful life. The author of Hebrews teaches us in Hebrews 12 that life is a strenuous journey. We will endure suffering and suffering will produce in us growth and gratitude. We must be careful not to be trapped in bitterness when we suffer. We need to learn to forgive and continue on in our journey.
Pastor Rich Nathan continues with our Never Give Up sermon series with a message entitled "What’s So Great About Faith?" He will be defining faith, looking at the examples of faith from Hebrews 11, and pointing out where is there room for doubt. Faith is not something we have just in the beginning of our walk with the Lord, it’s something we must continue to nurture throughout our lives. And for those who haven’t yet started on a journey of faith, this is a good time to begin.
One of the troubling trends in America, mostly among young adults, but by no means confined to young adults, is the continuing movement of people away from church and away from Christian faith. Slightly more than one-third of all Millennials (ages 18-38) are unaffiliated with any faith. Now, that’s the highest percentage among any age group. The focus of this message is not on the failure of the church – what can the church do better to retain our people or to retain the young, but it really focuses on the responsibility of individuals for our own faith. What do you and I need to do to personally stay connected to faith and fellowship?
Pastor Rich Nathan continues into the sermon series "Never Give Up." Have you ever been in a situation where you doubted God's faithfulness? Pastor Rich talks about how to overcome your doubts whether you are new to Christianity or you're a long-time believer.
Pastor Rich Nathan kicks off a new sermon series titled Never Give Up. This summer-long series is a verse-by-verse preaching through the entire book of Hebrews. Rich starts by giving some background information about the book of Hebrews. This letter was addressed to Jewish believers who were being significantly persecuted. The great temptation for the Jewish believers was to slide back into their old ways to avoid persecution. A modern-day example of this same type of persecution are churches in China. There is huge pressure economically and socially to pull out of the church. The author of Hebrews holds up Jesus as the One to whom all Scripture points. How do we hold on? By lifting our eyes up to Jesus!
Pastor Rich wraps up the Overcomers series with his sermon titled Never Forget! 166 times in the Bible we’re told to remember. A fundamental problem in our lives and in the Bible is forgetting. In the Bible, Passover (in the Old Testament) and Communion (in the New Testament) are both wonderful examples of remembering. The way we grow spiritually is to remember the pain of sin and remember the grace of God.
Pastor Rich Nathan continues the Overcomers series with the sermon about overcoming our past. He interviews Nicole Bromley about being abused by her stepfather and how she overcame her circumstances to help others in similar situations.
Pastor Rich Nathan interviews Bill Pelke for the "Overcomers" series. Bill’s grandmother was brutally murdered by 4 teenagers in the late 80’s. Bill felt the Lord's call for him to radically forgive and work to help the 15-year-old girl who ended up on Indiana’s death row. Bill tells his story of radical forgiveness and Rich follows up with a short message about how and why God calls us to forgive.
Pastor Rich Nathan preaches an Easter message called "How to Ensure That You Will Never Die."
Have you noticed that America is really schizophrenic about death? Entertainment offers a lot of death and blogs are self-indulgent about letting others watch their death (of cancer, etc.) creating a virtual world of death. But in our own families, we often don’t talk about death. This Easter weekend, we will look through John 11 and explore a Christian view of death. Jesus says, “Whoever believes in me will never die.” Why should we believe that?
Pastor Rich Nathan talks about the expression of God’s faithfulness, which has been calling us, preserving us, and fighting for us over the years. We can respond to God with loyalty and commitment back to him.
