Week 5: Humility

In our final week of the sermon series, The Language of Lent, we look at the word “humility”—not only by watching Jesus as he enters Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, humbly riding on a donkey, but also by hearing how the Apostle Paul describes our humble yet exalted Savior, and presents him as the example for our lives as God’s people.

Week 4: Covenant

“Covenant” may not be a word you use in everyday conversation. But there’s a good chance you’ve made covenants—if you stood before the altar and got married, that’s a covenant … if you brought a baby to be baptized, your pastor asked you to make a covenant to raise that child in the one true faith. But the covenant we’re looking at today is far greater—a new covenant of grace that God makes with us, which he cemented in the cross.

Week 3: Grace

Grace. It’s a word we use all the time in church. But sometimes, perhaps, our view of grace is too narrow—perhaps we forget to see grace as something that extends throughout our entire lives as God’s people. For us, grace is a daily reality. From the time God brings us to faith in him, until the time that he walks us into heaven, we live and we stand in that grace.

Week 2: Obedience

The word we’re looking at today is “obedience.” When we hear that word, we often think about obligation and demands. Following the rules. But for the Christian, when we hear the word obedience, the first thing we want to have come to our hearts and minds is God’s love for us in Jesus. Because that’s what truly drives, inspires and enables our obedience in every aspect of our lives.

Week 1: Temptation

We’re beginning a new sermon series called The Language of Lent, where we’ll be considering certain words that capture the essence of the season—words like humility, suffering, or today’s theme, temptation. And so we look at not only the temptations that were present for Abraham when God commanded him to sacrifice his only son, Isaac—temptations that we also face every day—but we also consider how Jesus, tempted in the desert and throughout his life on earth, was not just an example for us of how to fend off temptation. He was there fighting the battle for us. Where we fail, Jesus succeeded, and his perfect track record in the face of temptation is credited to our account through faith in him.