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The Reason He Came, Part 4 - Bear Witness to the Truth
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 14, 2019
The Lord Jesus Christ came to bear witness to the truth. When we live as Jesus teaches we make ourselves citizens of heaven and part of His Kingdom. The Lord is truth because he fulfilled the Word and because He is the Word made flesh. When we do the truth we bring together the Word outside with the Lord within which brings us into heaven from the inside out. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAThe Reason He Came, Part 3 - To Send Fire to the Earth
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 07, 2019
Lord came to send fire and bring a sword not peace. In other places the Lord says He bring peace. So how do we understand this paradox? The Lord goal for us is peace, but his process is division. We need the truth to get to love. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAThe Reason He Came, Part 2 - To Save the Lost
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 24, 2019
The Lord came to seek and save what was lost. The stories of the Word demonstrate the lost as those in good who have wandered from truth. The Lord came to restore truth to them rather than falsity, and save them as a result. A sign to us that we are in good and love, if we love truth. A lack of desire to pursue truth is an indication we are not in good. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAReason He Came, Part 1 - To Teach and Heal
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 17, 2019
The Lord came to preach and heal. These actions represent the spiritual help the Lord can offer us to teach us a new way of thinking and to heal us from spiritual challenges which are pain, limitations, and misdirected desires of our heart and mind. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PALove over Ego, Part 6 - Love and Wisdom Win
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 10, 2019
Daniel faces a trial when he chooses his pursuit of and dependance on the Lord even with the potential consequences of death. The only thing that can bring us to this place of peace and confidence in the midst of trial is the marriage of love and wisdom. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAMemorial Service - Sandy Johns
Memorial Service - March 10, 2019
Memorial service for Sandy Johns. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PALove Over Ego, Part 5 - Holiness
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 03, 2019
Belshazzar makes a feast and uses the sacred vessels from the temple of Jerusalem in his feast, and God sends a message of judgement for his abuse of these sacred things. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PALove over Ego, Part 4 - Humility Over Shame
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 24, 2019
Nebuchadnezzar learns humility before the Lord through the loss of his sanity. Our sense of humility before the Lord can be a chief virtue that guides and directs our sense of shame. At the same time, having a community that pegs our sense of shame in relationship to the Lord's values is useful to our spiritual health. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PALove Over Ego, Part 3 - Confidence Over Arrogance
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 17, 2019
Nebuchadnezzar demanded that the Jews in exile, participate in the court worship of idols on the threat of death. The three Jews in question refused because they were not going to commit idolatry. Idolatry in our age is ways of thinking and living, it is the things that we make most important in our life. Can we have the courage to think and live as the Lord invites us to even at pain of persecution and rejection by others? | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PALove Over Ego, Part 2 - Intentions Over Expectations
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 10, 2019
Daniel's wisdom is a product of His dependance on the Lord. When faced with a situation, it is His reliance on the Lord even for his understanding that brings him and his friends through. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PALove over Ego, Part 1 - True Identity
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 03, 2019
Daniel sought to maintain his Jewish identity within a foreign culture, but also to succeed within that culture. Daniel stove to not defile himself according to Jewish law, and chose to pursue this by regulating his consumption. Paying attention to what we take in and where it comes from is the starting place for choosing an identity in the Lord. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAWalls of the City
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 27, 2019
The Lord is order which is from good and truth. Apart from order, there is also that which is not ordered and that which is contrary to order. Different states of a city provide us with the opportunity to think about how these three categories work – for example a city without a wall, a wall without a city, and a functioning city. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAPsalm 119 - Hope in Your Word
Worship Service: Children & Adult - January 06, 2019
The Lord is present in and through the Word. His Divine Love and Wisdom are the source. The Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled the Word. He teaches us as we seek understanding from it and instills love for Him as we approach Him in it. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAYou Crown the Year with Goodness
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 30, 2018
The Lord crowns our year with goodness. If we look, we can see the good the Lord has done for us in the last year. His goodness encircles our life and tops it off. The goodness drops as richness of life from heaven. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAThe Gifts of the Wise Men
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 23, 2018
The Wise Men gave their gifts because combined the gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh symbolize all worship owed to the Lord. In total, worship is must be from the heart, head, and life. When we fully commit to the Lord in that way, we give the gifts of the Wise Men. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAWhere Is He Who Has Been Born King of the Jews?
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 16, 2018
The wise men pursued the Lord when they knew of His coming. Our knowledge of the Lord can be a star that leads us to Him, and it includes finding Him by way of organized religion and the wisdom collected there. Even when these organizations are corrupted, they are a place where we can learn and find the Lord. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAJesus' Family History
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 02, 2018
If you look closely at the family history of Jesus, you can see the mess. And that messy family history is absolutely necessary for the Jesus work of glorification and our salvation. Original sermon by Rev. Malcolm Smith | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAThe Work of the Holy Spirit
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 25, 2018
The Lord Jesus Christ is present with us through the Holy Spirit, the spirit of truth that leads to truth. We find this through Scripture and it is through Scripture that the Lord has a power effect to heal you and make you knew. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAThanksgiving - First Fruits
Worship Service: Informal Family - November 22, 2018
The festival of first fruits was a required religious feast for the Jewish church. The spiritual significance of this celebration is to acknowledge the good life produced by the Lord's truths. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAJoshua, Part 5 - Choosing
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 18, 2018
The Lord Jesus Christ has fought for us and established for us the ability to choose. We can exercise that choice by choosing who and how we will serve. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAJoshua, Part 4 - Losing Battles
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 11, 2018
We will face failure, loss, and our own sins in life. It is part of the process and we should not expect otherwise. If we approach failure as feedback and take our failures to the Lord and look for our inner falsities that are part of the problem, we can face every failure and grow through process. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAPsalm 34 - Taste and See
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 04, 2018
The Lord cares for us. When we trust in Him and pursue the life He teaches, we will be protected and blessed spiritually. Even if things are hard at times, the Lord will lead us to see the goodness of what He teaches. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAJoshua, Part 3 - Spiritual Combat
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 28, 2018
The Lord leads us into spiritual combat, the conflict between truth and falsity, between lusts and love. The key to victory is marching according to the 10 Commandments. If we encircle false thinking and lustful behavior with the Ten Commandments, the Lord fights for us. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAPsalm 100 - He Who Made Us
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 07, 2018
We praise the Lord because He made us, cares for us, and for who He is. Our response is to come to Him with love by means of what He teaches. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAYoked Together, Part 4 - Strengthening Bonds
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 23, 2018
The Lord created marriages and He created them to grow stronger forever. We can strengthen our marriage by choosing to use means of strengthening relationships that He created. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA