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- Yesterday29 min
Don't Lose Your Head // Rev. Matt Kennedy // Sep 20 2026
There are all kinds of institutions and organizations that have local chapters of a common mission (think of things like the Kiwanis Club, Alcoholics Anonymous, or the YMCA). They often have a charismatic founder and a set of guiding values and documents that create an enduring mission and culture in diverse settings. You might be tempted to think of the Christian church in a similar way, but let me suggest the local church is actually something quite different. The local church is not a historical society, an affinity group, a book club, or a philanthropic organization. We call it "The Body of Christ", and that term separates it from other institutions because scripture teaches us that church is a living body (not a corpse).More than a few times the New Testament says, "Christ is the head of the church" (Ephesians 1:22, Colossians 1:18, 2:10). But in the ancient world, the head wasn't just a place to store information or make decisions. Rather the head was the source of life! The historic Christian faith has always taught that church is more than a group of people gathering around memories of Jesus, but we have a living relationship with a living God and Christ's living presence fills our life together (Ephesians 1:23). In our second week of reflecting on church as "The Body of Christ" we'll ponder this image to resist the danger of "losing our head"!
- 1 weeks ago28 min
No Small Parts // Rev. Matt Kennedy // Sep 13 2026
In 1949 about 76% of Americans held "membership" in a church congregation. In 2025 just 45% of Americans belong to a congregation. Yet despite this precipitous decline in church membership, 65% of Americans still identify as "Christian." Belonging to a church and being a Christian no longer seem synonymous. A lot of people who are interested in Jesus are nonetheless asking, "What's the point of church?"The Bible's favorite metaphor to describe the church was to say it was like a human body: an interdependent network of parts like shoulders, knees, toes, eyes, ears, mouths, and nose combined to make a singular human being (1 Corinthians 12:12-27). The New Testament uses this image in a variety of ways to say there is something to know of God's grace you'll only find by participating in a Christian community (and you're unlikely to find on your own). For the next three weeks we'll try to answer that question, "why church?" by looking at the body-language of the New Testament. In these we'll find surprising and inviting ways to see ourselves not only more connected to an organization, but more essential to the "body of Christ."
- 1 weeks ago39 min
The Problem with Good // Elise Strickland // Sept 6 2026
As summer comes to a close I am always grateful for the ways this season allows me to enjoy the outdoors and marvel at God's creation. Whether it's taking in the stars under the milky way, watching thunderclouds roll across the prairie, or feeling the wind as it blows through the trees; time in nature is a prime opportunity to consider the majesty of God and the humility I should have before him. An ancient Hebrew poet put it well, "When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers... what is humanity that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?" (Psalm 8:3-4).This week we welcome Elise Strickland as our guest preacher. Elise is a graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary and has served a number of churches and ministries across the globe for over 20 years in areas of worship, outreach, and theological education. Most recently she and her team are preparing to plant a new Covenant church in the North Metro. Elise will help us spend some time Sunday considering not only God's intimate love for human beings, but remember this tender-kindness comes from God's infinite majesty and awesome power.
- 2 weeks ago35 min
Starve the Fantasy, Feed the Soul // Rev. Matt Kennedy // Aug 30 2026
Most of the Ten Commandments speak to behaviors that are observable and measurable (e.g. there are ways to tell when a person is stealing or working on the sabbath). The final commandment of the ten forbidds something much more internal to our minds and hearts: we should not covet neighbor's "house or spouse" (Exodus 20:17). This command puts restraints on our most secret thoughts and inner desires: our envy, jealousy, lust, and bitterness. These are wrongs that would be hard to convict in a court of law, but resisting them would be essential for living life in God. Without the inner work of the 10th commandment, the other nine will always feel uphill for us.One of the most essential tasks of the Christian life is training our hearts to love and desire what is truly good. This week we'll consider Biblical practices of contentment, thanksgiving, guarding our hearts, "taking captive our thoughts", accepting the gifts of limitations, and remembering that even downstream of suffering the gospel gives us a hope more satisfying than we could know we wanted.
- 3 weeks ago39 min
Trust Issues // Rev. Matt Kennedy // Aug 23 2026
It's been said that trust takes years to build and seconds to break. What's more, since so much of life depends on trust, a broken promise creates suspicion and resentment that afflicts more than individual relationships. Communities run on trust like an engine runs on oil. When there's a leak, it doesn't take long for the whole engine to seize.As we continue in our summer sermon series on the Ten Commandments, the 7th, 8th, and 9th commandments share a common thread (Exodus 20:14-16). Adultery, theft, and false witness are fundamentally acts that break trust. In a world where trust is in short supply, the people of God need an integrity that won't come so much from sheer willpower alone, but an inward foundation of God's grace and faithfulness. For Christ is a promise-keeping savior for promise-breaking people.
- Aug 17, 202634 min
Life Preservers // Rev. Matt Kennedy // Aug 16 2026
We often describe a brand new baby as, "the miracle of life." It's an appropriate phrase because scripture tells us in a variety of ways that life is not an accident nor is it a given, but life is a precious gift from God. In the same way, there are few things that shock our sense of goodness more than when a life is taken by violence. It is the ultimate act of disorientation and desecration. "Bloodshed pollutes the land" (Numbers 35:33), and just like toxic chemicals that seep into groundwater, the act of murder poisons the bonds of human community in ways that can seem impossible to undo.This week we continue our sermon series on the Ten Commandments by considering not just the prohibition of murder (Exodus 20:12), but the task of God's people to bear witness to life's sacredness in all the ways we resist violence and vengeance, seek peace and prosperity, and live responsibly and reverently. Most important of all, we'll do what we do every Sunday as the Christian community: rejoice that the blood of the ultimate victim of violence does not stain the earth with vengeance, but washes us clean with mercy (1 John 1:7).
- Aug 13, 202631 min
Grace for the Ages // Rev. Matt Kennedy // Aug 09 2026
There are words that have fallen from the lips of parents at least once in their life, "Because I said so!" Even the most patient moms and dads sometimes just want kids to follow instructions without stopping to explain why. It would be tempting to appeal to the fifth commandment as justification, "Honor thy father and mother." (Exodus 20:12). There are Bible verses that commend a child's obedience to a parent, but what if I told you the fifth commandment is more for adults than it is for children?Because the nature of aging and parenting in the modern world has become so revolutionized in the last few generations, the meaning of the fifth commandment can be hard to find without remembering the historical context of the Bible. In the ancient world there were no nursing homes, social security, or 401ks. Instead, generations both old and young lived in cooperative and dependent relationships within families and the aged were cared for with dignity. The fifth commandment is less about a child's blind obedience to mom and dad, but more the wisdom for all generations to build strong bonds of compassion, trust, and grace. In a world where generations have become increasingly at odds with each other, we need not only the Bible's laws to guide our parenting, but the grace of Christ to heal our estranged families. This week is a tender topic, but the good news is of God's tender-loving kindness. That is his honor, and it is how we honor one another.
- Aug 13, 202628 min
Sabbath Posture for Sabbath People // Rev. Michele Arndt // Aug 2 2026
Early in his ministry, Mark’s gospel records these words from Jesus:“The Sabbath was made for humankind (man), not humankind for the Sabbath.” (Mk 2:27). Sometimes it can feel like Jesus is speaking in riddles. What does Jesus mean? In our journey through the 10 commandments, scholars and theologians suggest that the third command about Sabbath is a cornerstone to the other nine. It isn’t all that radical to tell someone not to steal or kill or commit adultery. Many other law codes in ancient near eastern traditions such as the Sumerian or Hammurabi have parallel teachings about these things. But none have a word to say about Sabbath. It stands alone. At the heart of Sabbath is something that extends far beyond what we do or don’t do on Sundays. For the people of God, Sabbath is a countercultural identity God gives us to say to “all the other gods” (as we sang last Sunday) - that we are holy and do not exist to work and produce. Sabbath is a way of marking time that stamps us with the origins of Creation, reminding us that time does not belong to us. We neither control nor are controlled by time. Instead, we submit to Sabbath not merely as a single 24-hour practice, but as a posture. Sabbath was made for us.
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