Sunday, December 3, 2023 | Gus Hacker We look at Christmas differently than the world does. Are you bored with Christmas or are you amazed at the wonderful story? Are we filled with the same wonder as those who wrote the Christmas hymns? Wonder means miraculous, unusual, astounding, remarkable, incomprehensible. We worship a wonderful Savior.…

Sunday, November 19, 2023 | Gus Hacker Psalm 100 A person cannot know God without knowing Jesus Christ. John 13:44-45–When you see Jesus, you are seeing God. We all have a god: phone, TV, sports, etc. He made us so that we can worship Him. Psalm 24:1–The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it.…

Sunday, November 12, 2023 | Gus Hacker Psalm 51:1-4 Sin is what drives our worship. Sin cuts off our fellowship with God. David is in despair a year after his affair with Bathsheba; he is miserable. Sin robs us of our peace. David takes personal responsibility for his sin. When we sin, we are affecting…

Sunday, November 5, 2023 | Gus Hacker Genesis 19:15-38 When worldliness seeps in: 1. Intimacy falls away 2. Generosity slips away – time, gifts 3. Compromised morals 4. No spiritual influence 5. Reluctant to give up our sin 6. Leads to materialism 7. Lack of fear of God 8. Transfers to the children Matthew 5:29-30–Cut…

Sunday, October 29, 2023 | Gus Hacker Genesis 19:4-8 Signs of worldliness: 1. Intimacy with God slips. 2. Generosity begins to wane. 3. Morals become compromised. Pressure can be a difficult thing to manage, especially in today’s youth. Lot wanted to be godly only when it was convenient. Do we push our kids into friendship…

Sunday, October 22, 2023 | Gus Hacker Genesis 18-19 Worldliness causes earthly concerns to dominate us. Worldliness causes our everyday activities to be our major focus, rather than the activities of the church. Worldliness leads to apostasy–we walk away. Your hunger for God wanes. Look at your life to see if you are growing worldly.…

Sunday, October 15, 2023 | Shane Anderson Mark 10:18 Matthew 5:45 God loves us incredibly and offers us freewill so that we can have a true relationship. God loves us too much to manipulate us. God cannot be manipulated. God doesn’t bribe us to be in a relationship. It’s because He loves us. Freewill comes…

Sunday, October 1, 2023 | Gus Hacker 1 Peter 2:11 (NIV) Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls. We are aliens and sojourners. 1 John 2:15 — Do not love the world or anything in the world. 1 Corinthians…

Sunday, September 24, 2023 | Gus Hacker 1 Peter 2:11-12 (NIV) Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls. Be careful to live properly among your unbelieving neighbors. Then even if they accuse you of doing wrong, they will see your…

Sunday, September 17, 2023 | Gus Hacker 1 Peter 2:10-12 (NIV) “Once you had no identity as a people;    now you are God’s people.Once you received no mercy;    now you have received God’s mercy.” Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls. Be…