The Connection Sermons The Connection Church

Join us as we walk through God's prevenient grace with our guest speaker Daniel Seifert

Good morning! Join us this Sunday morning as we celebrate in God's Word. All are welcome at The Connection Church!

Thanks for joining us this morning. While we have been working through the Articles of Faith, this week we take a break from that and welcome the District Superintendent, Dr. Virgil Askren. He will be bringing us the word and facilitating an important moment in life of the Church. Today we’ll l be voting for Chris and Cherie to fill the role of pastor together. The title for such a relationship is Co-Pastor, a growing trend among couples who are both ordained elders in the Church of the Nazarene. I pray you are encouraged and blessed this morning as you worship and participate with us in the life of the church.

As we continue are series, working through the Articles of Faith Cherie will explore how we think about sin — that we all are contributors to the brokenness of humanity and are in need of a savior. But know this, sin, in our view does not get the last word. God not only calls us, but is at work to renew us, to make us whole, restoring us… or sanctifying us. I hope you’ll spend some time with us this morning as we think about such an important topic.

Last week we began a new series exploring what we (Nazarenes) call the Articles of Faith. These are 16 declarations of belief, beginning with God; father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We tackled that last week. This week is the fourth Article, the Holy Scriptures. Join us this morning as we this about what it means for us to say, “we believe in the Holy Scriptures…” and how we believe those scriptures to function in our lives.

Today we find ourselves in what the church calendar calls Common Time, or Ordinary time. This is not a matter of mundane, but rather a restful response to the story we told, from Advent to Easter, Pentecost, and last week's Trinity Sunday. Explore with us as we think about what it means for us to indeed respond to the story of the Bible. From Genesis 1 and John 1, we’ll see God revealing Himself to the world and inviting humanity into His work of redemption. I hope you’ll join us this morning, and throughout the coming weeks as we lean into our called response to the story of God at work in the world.