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Ekklesia Church at Raleigh

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Season 2026

Summer on the Mount: Part 5 – The Little Way

As people of faith, it’s easy to get caught up in the lie that God expects big and grand things from us. But the simple and liberating truth is this: spiritual growth is a result of the little ways of discipleship. In this week’s sermon, we explore Jesus’s words in Matthew 6:1-18 to learn what it means to practice a spirituality that is small, simple, and sincere.

Summer on the Mount: Part 4 – Standing in the Rain

Jesus gave three brilliant examples of creative nonviolent resistance — and then demanded something even harder: love your enemies. In week four of Summer on the Mount, we explore why that command matters more than ever in a culture built on conflict.

Summer on the Mount: Part 3 – A Commencement Address

What do high school graduation, the You’ve-heard-it-said passages in the Sermon on the Mount, and the classic animated movie Monsters, Inc. have in common? That is the question we ask this graduation Sunday.

Summer on the Mount: Part 2 – Salt and Light

In this week's passage from the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus uses the images of salt, light, and the law to describe a life of discipleship. But what exactly do these three concepts have in common? As Pastor Greg suggests, these images work together to teach us this important truth: to follow Jesus is to live incarnationally.

Summer on the Mount: Part 1 – God's Biggest, Tiniest Dreams

Ordinary Time begins the Sunday after Pentecost. It's the longest season on the church calendar — and the quietest. In this opening sermon of Summer on the Mount, the case is made that the Beatitudes are exactly the right text for ordinary time: a portrait of the slow, Spirit-shaped work of learning to see the world the way Jesus sees it.

Pentecost Sunday

This Sunday is Pentecost, the day we celebrate the giving of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2. With violent winds and tongues of fire, this is a wild story, but the bigger question is, “What does the Spirit do in our lives now that we have it?”

Resurrection Appearances – Part Six – But Some Doubted

Matthew includes a strange detail in the final story of his Gospel. The eleven are standing on the mountain, looking at the risen Jesus — and he writes "but some doubted." This message explores what it means that the Great Commission was given to a group that still contained doubt — and why that might be the best news you've heard all week.

Resurrection Appearances – Part Five – Peter

In the gospel of John’s final resurrection appearance, Jesus has a conversation with Peter on the shore of the sea of Galilee. What can we learn from this intimate exchange, as Jesus speaks into Peter’s shame and failure?

Resurrection Appearances – Part Four – Stay in the Room

We’ve called him Doubting Thomas for 2,000 years. But what if we’ve had him wrong the whole time? What if his doubt wasn’t a failure… but something deeply faithful?

Resurrection Apperances – Part Three – Mary Magdalene

Today in our resurrection appearances series, we turn to the Gospel of John — and the first story John tells is Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalene. When understood in context — inside a Gospel deliberately patterned after Genesis — this story reminds us of one of the great paradoxes of our faith: that Jesus is both immense and intimate.

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