Gospel for life with Nathaniel Timmermann

Jesus is a real guy

Real Christmas means Real Life

What does it mean to really have life? Christmas gives us life. A sermon on John 1:1-5 for Christmas Day, 2025.

Real Christmas is chaotic and creative

Do you feel like Christmas and the holidays are chaotic? You are on to something. God captured the chaos of our lives with his Christmas invasion. But Christmas also remakes the chaos through his creativity. 

A Christmas sermon on Philippians 2:6-8, December 24, 2024. 

Real Christmas means Real Change

Christmas is wonderful, but it definitely makes us ask if we're doing enough - do I have enough gifts, nice enough gifts, have I given enough. John makes us ask the same question and points to a different answer - making the fruit of a new person. A sermon based on Luke 3:7-18

Real Christmas: The manger is the source of love

Somehow, Christmas manages to bring out some of the most romantic stories of our lives. How? Check out the source of love. A sermon on December 8th 2024 based on Philippians 1:3-11

Real Christmas: The manger shows our lack

For Christmas to be real for you and me, we have to see we lack. We might want all kinds of things. But the fact that God sent his Son, not a pot of money, not a new set of laws, and not a new family, means that we don’t just want all kinds of things. We need something that we have no idea what it is. Real Christmas means you say I lack. I lack and only God can give what I need. A sermon on December 1, 2024 based on 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13

Thankful for you

It can be easy to be thankful for the good and easy people in our lives. Most of us have to plenty of project people - imperfect people who we work and live with. Can we be thankful for them too? Sermon on November 27, 2024 for Thanksgiving 2024

Forever: Shine

Whether we know it or not, recognize it or not, we want to be right. We are desperate to be right. We are eager for the day when we will be right forever and shine. A sermon on November 17th, 2024

Forever: Happy

Do I actually want to go to heaven? For so many people, heaven doesn't actually seem like a good place to be. We have to learn to long for a distant country that we've never been to and have no idea what it is like. If it is a great place, you can learn to like it. Sermon on Isaiah 35:1-10 on November 10th, 2024

The ruled can rule

We need to know that the real path to ruling is the one who came to serve. We will place ourselves beneath others because there is a throne waiting for us.  We need to be prepared for that throne someday. The only way to be shaped and made into that person who can sit and rule on that throne is that we are ruled today.  A sermon on Revelation 20:4-6.