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Although believers come from different cultures, backgrounds, and consciences, they are called to live in unity by treating disputable matters with grace and love.  Paul places responsibility on the “strong” to lay down their freedoms for the sake of the “weak”, modeling the self-giving sacrifice of Christ.  The ultimate goal is a generous family of […]

God is the Maker and Preserver of all things–one God in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In revealing himself to us, God relates to us as a loving Father who has adopted us as his sons.  God’s love is manifest fully in the life, death and resurrection of his Son, […]

[Unfortunately, the audio file of this sermon was corrupted, a lower quality audio was able to be produced from the Facebook Livestream. We apologize for the inconvenience.] In the book of Romans, Paul makes a distinction between those whom he sees as spiritually weak and spiritually strong. Specifically, it had to do with whether or […]

Honored friend John Yates preaches on the great significance of Jesus’s words, “Our Father.” A father brings great significance in a child’s life and offers a “ballast”, a weightiness and steadiness. For the God of the universe to adopt us as sons of God and for Him to be our Father means we have an […]

Everyone worships something and our hearts are “idol factories.” We are constantly turning to other gods–driven by our wants and desires–to give us what only God can. Identifying, unseating and replacing our hearts idols requires admitting our need and constantly turning to Jesus as our true Savior and God.

Paul concludes his letter to the Romans with thanksgiving for the whole community of the Church anticipating the great chorus of saints in heaven.

*Unfortunately there is a 30 second break in the recording at appx 6:40. The Church in Rome had a mix of Gentiles and Jews with their different cultural and theological assumptions often creating tensions and disputes. In Romans 13 & 14, Paul calls on the community to love one another, to constrain their freedoms and […]