November 9, 2025
Scripture: Job 19:1-29
Fall 2025 Sermon Series: “What Disciples Do”
Sermon Ten: “Disciples Live by Faith”
“Then Job answered Bildad, ‘How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me? For I knowthat my Redeemer lives, and, at the last, he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has beenthus destroyed, then form my flesh, I shall see God.’” Job 19: 1-3, 25-26 NIV
“Job’s Comforters Accuse Him”, by William Blake, British Artist, 1757-1827 
November 2, 2025
Scripture: Ephesians 1:11-23
Sermon: Fall 2025 Sermon Series: “What Disciples Do”
Sermon Nine: “Disciples Affirm Resurrection Hope”
“May the God our Lord Jesus Christ, give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him…that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, and what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, according to the working of his great might, which he accomplished in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his right hand in the heavenly places…” Ephesians 1: 17-19 (edited) NIV
“Jacob Fighting the Angel” by Jurgen Ovens, Dutch Artist, 17th Century
October 26
Scripture: Luke 18:9-14
Ref: Romans 5:6-8, Ephesians 2:3-9
Fall 2025 Sermon Series: “What Disciples Do”
Sermon Eight: “Disciples Don’t Judge”
“ To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: ‘Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.’…. Luke 18:9-10 NIV
The Pharisee and the Tax Collector” (detail) by James Tissot, American artist, ca. 1896
“Jacob Fighting the Angel” by Jurgen Ovens, Dutch Artist, 17th Century
October 19
Fall 2025 Sermon Series: “What Disciples Do”
Sermon Seven: “Disciples Wrestle with God”
Scripture: Genesis, Chapter 32 (selected verses)
“That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.” Genesis 32:22-24 NIV
“Jacob Fighting the Angel” by Jurgen Ovens, Dutch Artist, 17th Century
October 12
Scripture: Jeremiah 29:4-7
Fall 2025 Sermon Series: “What Disciples Do”
Sermon Six: “Disciples Make the Best of Babylon”
“This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: ‘Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there and do not decrease.’ ” Jeremiah 29:4-6 NIV
September 21
Scripture: Luke 16:1-13
Fall 2025 Sermon Series: “What Disciples Do”
Sermon Three: “Disciples Resist Greed”
September 14
Fall 2025 Sermon Series: “What Disciples Do”
Sermon Two: “Disciples Seek People for Christ and Church”
Scripture: Luke 15:1-10
“Then Jesus told them this parable, ‘Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the other ninety-nine…and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home.’” Luke 15:3-5a NIV
August 31
Summer Sermon Series Three: Pillars of Faith
Sermon Three: “Faith Enough to Wait”
“ When Jesus noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, he told them this parable: ‘When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor… But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, “Friend, move up to a better place.” For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” Luke 14:7-8a, 10a, 11 NIV
August 24
Scripture: Luke 13:10-17
Summer Sermon Series Three: “Pillars of Faith”
Sermon Two: “Faith in the Face of Opposition”
“The Lord answered them, ‘You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water? Then should not this Daughter of Abraham that Satan has kept bound…be set free on the Sabbath Day from what has bound her?’” Luke 13:15-17 NIV (edited)
Cover Image: “Jesus Healed Me” by Kevin Cardin, American Artist
August 17
August 10
Scripture: Hebrews 11. 1-3, 8-16
Summer Sermon Series Three: “Pillars of Faith”
Sermon One: How Faith Acts”
“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.9 By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents….(f)or he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.” Hebrews 11:1-13, 8-9a, 10 NIV
Bulletin Cover Image: Nelson’s Column (with detail), Trafalgar Square, London, England
July 13
Scripture: Luke 25-37
Summer Sermon Series Two: “Action Required”
Sermon One: “Love Unconditionally”
”But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds,
pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him.” Luke 10:25-37 NIV
Cover Images: (Left) “The Good Samaritan” by Eugene Delcroix, ca. 1849.
(Right) “The Good Samaritan after Delcroix” by Vincent Van Gogh ca.1890
July 6
Scripture: 1 Kings 5:1-19
Summer Sermon Series One: “Intervention”
Sermon Four: “A Humbling Intervention for a Proud Commander”
“And so, Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the door of Elisha’s house. And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying,‘Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean.’”
Cover Image: The River Jorden, Israel
“Man of Sorrows” by William Dyce, Scottish Artist, ca. 1860
June 29
Scripture: Luke 9:51-56
Sermon: Summer Sermon Series One: “Intervention”
Sermon Three: “Intervening to Enlighten His Own”
“The people would not receive Jesus, because his face was set to Jerusalem. And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, ‘Lord, do you wantus to bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?’ But Jesus turned and rebuked them. And they went on to another village.” Luke 9:53-56 NIV
“Man of Sorrows” by William Dyce, Scottish Artist, ca. 1860
June 22
Scripture: Luke 8:26-39
Sermon: Summer Series One: “Intervention”
Sermon Two: “A Change of Heart, Not a Change in Scenery”
“The townspeople went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom
the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.” Luke 8:35 NIV
“Jesus and The Demoniac” by Ann Lukesh, American Artist, Contemporary
June 1
Scripture: Acts 10 (selected verses)
Sermon: “An Unexpected Change in Menu”
“Peter saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. Then a voice told him, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.’ ‘Surely not, Lord!’ Peter replied. ‘I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.’ The voice spoke to him a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’” Acts 10:11-14 NIV
