Gospel for life with Nathaniel Timmermann

Jesus identifies as one of us

What's your identity? How do you identify? Look at the baptism of Jesus and see how he identifies himself. A sermon on Luke 3:21-22, January 12 2025

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: A difference

There's 8 billion people on this planet, and he is calling each of them to himself in his own way, there's been many billions more in the history of all humanity. God has not forgotten each of them, either. He makes a difference in their life, just as he did in Abraham and in Noah and in Isaac and in Jacob and in David and in Solomon and Saul and Elijah and Elisha and Peter and Andrew and James and John and Paul and Augustine and Martin Luther and Calvin and John Wesley. And in you and in me, he's the God who makes a difference for all eternity. I pray that he would be your God. A sermon on November 24, 2024 on Revelation 22:1-5

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