Gospel for life with Nathaniel Timmermann

Marriage and families, for most people, are the path to flourishing

I've seen plenty of examples of the destructive effect of marriage. Nevertheless, God says and shows that marriage is the path to flourishing, for most people. A sermon on genesis 2:18-25 on October 13.

Loved: pastor and people

Every believer should work for the good of neighbor. Through the work of Jesus, we have been made priests of God. That doesn't minimize or eliminate the work of pastors. We benefit each other when we work together in love. Sermon on September 29th, 2024.

LOVED: By others

Being loved does some great things for us. But it isn't easy to be someone who can be loved. It means being vulnerable and dependent. That's what someone else has done exactly right for us. Sermon on Sept 22, 2024, 1 John 4 and others.

LOVED: By God

God is the love the drives the world. That very love means life for all. Do we actually want someone to love us? Can we endure love with us, for us, and beside us all the time? Know the love of God for you. A sermon on September 15th, 2024 on John 3:16

The gospel gives you something to give

Christianity has something to give. Whether you know it or not, feel it or not, or even have the right thing, whatever sickness, hardship, or trial you run up against in life, the gospel gives you something to give. A sermon on Act 3:1-10 on September 8th, 2024.

People might do great things, but little people lead great lives that bring glory to someone else.

Kids know the importance of giving honor and glory to someone else. They boast about their parents at school. We give glory and honor to things to by our lives - perhaps to money, or family, or our career. But do we honor good things? Do we glorify the right things? And what could it do for us if we honored someone else who honored us first! A sermon on Deuteronomy 4:1-9 on September 1, 2024.

Press, don't pass, on the pressure to live by faith

Our age pressures us simultaneously to be both filled with faith and to turn away from faith. We aren't going to get away from that pressure. The only thing we can do is press into it. We can do that because Jesus pressed on to push back against sin, death, and the devil. A sermon on Hebrews 11:24-28 on August 25, 2024

Grace for Darker Days: As Wild as the Weather

The solution for days of wild weather is not to try to tame it, control it, or somehow think we are gods. It is to get a king who is truly as wild as the weather is. A sermon on Mark 4:35-41.

The need for a Savior

The postmodern, postChristian world has involved a massive shift that has essentially removed a Savior and replaced it with a self. That analysis can be seen in Genesis 3. A sermon on Genesis 3:8-15 on June 9th, 2024

Resurrection REALity

All of these things are part of our reality.

• We know that the world is loved and loved to death. * We know that such love is the very essence of God himself.
• We know that behind history there is the witness who is the great witness of all things right.
• We know that the above the values that we hold to is the one who values us.

There's something that you and I can say in every situation. And that's the resurrection reality that God wants for you and I today. An Easter sermon on March 31, 2024 based on John 20:1-18