Summit Ridge Sermon Podcast Summit Ridge Community Church

May 5, 2024
Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker
 
"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast." -Jane Austen
 "The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him." -Xun Kuang
 
"It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church." -Matthew Henry
 
James 4:13-17
 
Ecclesiastes 10:14
 

Jeremiah 9:23-24
 
1 Corinthians 1:26-31
 
 

 

April 28, 2024
Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker
James 4:11-12
Matthew 5:21-22
Matthew 5:27-30
Matthew 3:31-37

Proverbs 6:16-19
 
Socrates: “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
 
Ephesians 4:29-32
 
Mother Teresa: “These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to want to manage other people's affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. To pass over the mistakes of others. To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one's dignity. To choose always the hardest.”
 
(NET)

 

April 21, 2024
Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker
 
"When divisions are rife in religion, it is bound to happen that what is in men’s minds will soon erupt in real conflict. For while nothing is more effective for joining us together, and there is nothing which does more to unite our minds, and keep them peaceful, than agreement in religion, yet if disagreement has somehow arisen in connection with it, the inevitable result is that men are quickly stirred up to engage in fighting, and there is no other field with fiercer disputes." -John Calvin
"What! At peace with the Father, and at war with His children? It cannot be." -John Flavel
"Divisions in the church always breed atheism in the world." -Thomas Manton
"The cause of sin is never so much helped as when Christians waste their strength in quarreling with one another, and spend their time in petty squabbles." -J.C. Ryle
 

James 3:13-4:6

 
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live" -Oscar Wilde
 
”Nothing is bloodier than a religious war. Issues aren’t just as human squabbles; everything is elevated to eternal importance… How tempting… to mistake our will for God’s. How devilish to believe that disagreeing with me is disagreeing with God.” -Marshall Shelly
 

James 4:7-10
 
Romans 7:15
 
(NET)
 
 

 

April 14, 2024
Associate Pastor Eric Burch
 
James 3:1
1 Corinthians 12:27-28
James 3:2 
Genesis 3:12
Romans 313-14
1 Peter 3:10
James 3:3-4
 
The Tongue is the Master Key for Keeping Our Whole Body in Check.
James 3:5a 
 
The Tongue has Enormous power to do Harm.
James 3:5b-6
Matthew 16:22-23
 
The Tongue is Humanly Uncontrollable.
James 3:7-8
Acts 2:2-4 
 
We struggle with Consistency.
James 3:9-12
Romans 7:21-24
Matthew 12:33-37
 
(NASB 2020)
 

April 7, 2024
Associate Pastor Louise Waller
 
James 2:14-16
Faith without action is deadMatthew 25:41-45
Action without faith is deadMatthew 7:15-23
Faith and Action are oneGalatians 6:7-8Ephesians 2:8-10
Faithful Action bears good fruit
 
(NIV)
 

March 31, 2024
 
"Why is Easter Sunday Still Relevant?"
Associate Pastor Justin Brunenkant
 
"What Does it Mean to be Born Again?
Associate Pastor Eric Burch
 
"The Physical Resurrection"
Associate Pastor Louise Waller
 
"Without the Resurrection Nothing Else Matters"
Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker