These posts contain sermon audio/video from sermons starting in 2014.
On Sunday, April 14, 2019, I preached a sermon on Matthew 21:1-11 at Wildwood Community Church. This message was on Palm Sunday. Below you will find the sermon audio to listen to, download, or share.
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To watch the Facebook Livestream, click here.
On Sunday, April 14, 2019 at Wildwood Community Church, I preached a message for Palm Sunday. This message focused on Matthew 21:1-11. Below are a set of questions related to the message for personal reflection or group discussion.
Sermon Questions:
To access these questions in pdf format, click here.
What makes Easter so special for you? Is it time with family? Egg hunts? Easter bunnies? Time with friends? A special meal? Going to church in your finest spring attire? All of those things may hold special significance for you, but for followers of Jesus, Easter is far more than those things . . . it is the celebration of Jesus’ death and resurrection that secures our forgiveness and our hope for eternity! While there are many things that we may associate with Easter, we cannot (or at least should not) leave Jesus out!
Now, I write this just a few days before Palm Sunday. So, let me ask you . . . what makes Palm Sunday, Palm Sunday? Is it the donkey? The waving of palm branches? The singing? The penultimate moment of the Easter season? What is it? Certainly all of these things play a part, but what makes Palm Sunday so special is JESUS CHRIST.
In Matthew 21:1-11, we see the historical record of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem on that first “Palm Sunday.” Yes, He was riding a donkey. Yes, people were waving palm branches. Yes, they were singing Psalm 118 all around Him. Yes, it was simply days before Jesus’ arrest and death and resurrection . . . but if we only look at the PARTS of this story, we miss the most important thing — the PERSON of Jesus Christ. Matthew makes this clear when he describes the effect of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem as the people of the city ask, “WHO is this? (Matthew 21:10)” They were not asking, what was He riding? Or what were we waving? Or what was the soundtrack? They wanted to know WHO caused such a stir.
This Palm Sunday at Wildwood Community Church, we are going to look at Matthew 21:1-11 together and seek to answer the question, “Who is this Jesus, who set the city astir?” See you Sunday in our 9:45 or 11:00 services.
On Sunday, April 7, 2019, we celebrated the baptisms of 26 Wildwood people in our 9:45 and 11:00 service! Below you will see a few links with content from this morning:
To access the testimony videos of those baptized, click here.
To watch the live stream of the 9:45 service, click here.
To watch the live stream of the 11:00 service, click here.
To watch the video highlights of the baptisms from the Jordan River, view online below:
On Sunday, April 7, 2019, we celebrated the baptisms of twenty-six people at Wildwood Community Church! Before these baptisms, I shared a brief reflection from Galatians 2:20-21. Below you will find a set of questions related to this message for personal reflection or group discussion.
Sermon Questions:
To access these questions in pdf format, click here.
On Sunday, March 10, 2019 at Wildwood Community Church, I preached a sermon based on the book of Romans entitled “For the Nations (part 2).” This message encouraged Wildwood regarding our partnership with a church plant in Brazil in partnership with Compassion International. To listen to this message or share it with others, use the audio below.
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To watch the livestream of the service, use the Facebook live feed below:
On Sunday, March 10, 2019 at Wildwood Community Church, I preached a message based on Isaiah 49:6; Romans 1:8-12; 15:20-21; and 16:1-27. This message was the second part of the “For the Nations” series and highlighted the church plant partnership with Compassion in Lagoa de Sao Francisco, Brazil. Below are a set of questions related to the message for personal reflection or group discussion.
Sermon Questions:
To access these questions in pdf format, click here.
Wildwood Community Church is for following Jesus together to the glory of God. We are for the church, community, nations, and next generation following Jesus with us! As we live out this mission as a church, we are always looking for ways to reach out in line with this vision. One way we are living this vision out as a congregation is through helping plant a church in Lagoa de Sao Francisco, Brazil in concert with a fantastic set of church planters (& their team), two other Brazilian churches, and Compassion International. Wildwood funded the construction of the building where the church and Compassion Center meet, and in January I had the opportunity to visit this church on the weekend they dedicated the facility. What a blessing!
On the weekend of March 8-11 at Wildwood, we are celebrating God’s work through the church in Lagoa de Sao Francisco, but also presenting the opportunity for Wildwood members to sponsor children in the Compassion center in Lagoa de Sao Francisco. All weekend long, people can tour the Compassion Experience (an interactive walkthrough showing the life of a Compassion child) on site at Wildwood. Also, on Sunday, March 10, I will be presenting the vision and opportunity through this church plant in our Sunday worship services (9:45 and 11:00).
To help share the story of this church plant and the Compassion Center, check out these 10 one minute videos that cast the vision:
On Sunday, March 3, 2019 at Wildwood Community Church, David Robles (Pastor and Seminary President from Leon, Spain) preached a message from Psalm 67. This message was part 1 of the “For the Nations” series here at Wildwood. Below you will find the sermon audio from this message to listen to or share.
To listen offline, click the link below to download:
To listen online, use the media player below:
To watch the livestream, use this Facebook feed:
On Sunday, March 3, 2019 at Wildwood Community Church, Pastor David Robles from Leon, Spain preached a message from Psalm 67. This message was the first week of our “For the Nations” week at Wildwood. Below are a set of questions related to this message for personal reflection or group discussion.
Sermon Questions:
To access these questions in pdf format, click here.
