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Sermon: The King's Mercy (July 21, 2024)

Scripture Text: 1 Samuel 24 Bryan Buck Quotes for Reflection David Brooks, How to Know a Person Jimmy’s gaze when he greets a person derives from a certain conception of what a person is. Jimmy is a pastor. When Jimmy sees a person—any person—he is seeing a creature who was made in the image of God. As he looks into each face, he is looking, at least a bit, into the face of God. When Jimmy sees a person, any person, he is also seeing a creature endowed with an immortal soul—a soul of infinite value and dignity. When Jimmy greets a person, he is also trying to live up to one of the great callings of his faith: He is trying to see that person the way Jesus would see that person. He is trying to see them with Jesus’s eyes—eyes that lavish love on the meek and the lowly, the marginalized and those in pain, and on every living person. When Jimmy sees a person, he comes in with the belief that this person is so important that Jesus was willing to die for their sake. As a result, Jimmy is going to greet people with respect and reverence. That’s how he’s always greeted me. A.W. Pink, The Life of David One stroke of his sword, and he steps into a throne. Farewell to poverty! Farewell the life of a hunted goat. Reproaches, sneers, defeat, would cease; adulations, triumphs, riches would be his. But his at the sacrifice of faith; at the sacrifice of a humbled will, ever waiting on God’s time; at the sacrifice of a thousand precious experiences of God’s care, God’s provision, God’s guidance, God’s tenderness. No, even a throne at that price is too dear. Faith will wait. Tim Keller, Forgiveness Forgiveness is more of an event or a process. At first, when you make those commitments—granting forgiveness—you don’t feel forgiving at all. You are still angry. But if you keep the commitments in a disciplined way…then slowly but surely you will feel the forgiveness you have granted. Application Questions: 1. How have you experienced the power of mercy in your life? 2. To experience gospel-empowered mercy requires sacrifice but offers great gain. How is this true? 3. Is there someone in your life who needs mercy?

Sermon: The Covenant of Friendship (June 23, 2024)

Scripture Text: 1 Samuel 18:1-4; 19:1-17 Bryan Buck Quotes for Reflection William Blaikie, 1 Samuel In the case of Jesus Christ, we have all the noble qualities of Jonathan in far higher excellence than his, and we have this further consideration, that for us He has laid down His life, and that none who receive His friendship can ever be separated from His love.” Jeremey Linneman, Why Do We Feel Lonely at Church? It’s helpful to think of our daily lives in terms of discipleship patterns, the habits of life we have learned both intentionally and unintentionally. In this broad sense, discipleship is always happening: We become what we consume, as our patterns of life direct and dictate our deepest feelings, thoughts, and motives. We are always being conformed to the heart and personality and lifestyle of another person or system. C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves In Friendship…we think we have chosen our peers. In reality, a few years’ difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another, posting to different regiments, the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting—any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, ‘Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,’ can truly say to every group of Christian friends, ‘You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.’ The Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each the beauties of all the others. They are no greater than the beauties of a thousand other men; by Friendship God opens our eyes to them. They are, like all beauties, derived from Him, and then, in a good Friendship, increased by Him through the Friendship itself, so that it is His instrument for creating as well as for revealing. At this feast it is He who has spread the board and it is He who has chosen the guests. It is He, we may dare to hope, who sometimes does, and always should, preside. Let us not reckon without our Host. Application Questions 1. Consider someone who’s been a good friend to you. What’s made them a good friend? 2. How did gospel faith characterize David’s friendship with Jonathan and Michal? 3. What’s one action you can take this week to cultivate friendship?

With All Boldness and Without Hindrance (August 27, 2023)

Scripture Text: Acts 28Bryan Buck

God is at work in natural and human forces to fulfill his promises (August 20, 2023)

Scripture Text: Acts 27Quincy Robinson

Paul Before Agrippa (August 13, 2023)

Scripture Text; Acts 26Bryan Buck

How Do We Use Power? (August 6, 2023)

Scripture Text: Acts 25Bryan Buck

Living Inside a Hope (July 30, 2023)

Scripture Text: Acts 24:1-27Bryan Buck

The Spirit's Global Gifts (July 23, 2023)

Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 12:4-31Daniel Robbins

The Gospel of the White Stone (July 16, 2023)

Scripture Text: Revelation 2:12-17 Mike Kelly

Be Of Good Cheer (July 9, 2023)

Scripture Text: Acts 23Bryan Buck

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