MAGAZINE
Holiness Today is the denominational magazine for the Church of the Nazarene. While you can subscribe to it, there are many free articles that are available on many different subjects. Please check it out!
This series deals with the stress, weariness, and busyness that can come with the Christmas season. Through understanding that Christ is the reason for this time, the giver of rest, and the Prince of Peace, we can find strength for a weary world.
December 15, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter & Choir Special
Scripture: Matthew 11:28-30
December 8, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Matthew 6:25-27
December 1, 2024 Pastor Dan Lewis
Scripture: Matthew 13:18-23
November 24, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Luke 21:1-4
This sermon series looks at the lives of ordinary people God worked through in extraordinary ways. By the end of the series, we will learn to be confident that God can do great things through us too.
November 17, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:26-31
November 10, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Mark 1:16-20
October 27, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-13
October 20, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Luke 1:26-34
October 13, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: John 17:13-19
September 29, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Isaiah 43:19-21
This sermon series looks at Old Testament passages that foreshadowed Jesus. The Bible points to Jesus, and the Old Testament is filled with stories that show how God’s redemptive plan was to be fulfilled in Jesus.
September 22, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Isaiah 52:7-10
September 15, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Exodus 12:1-13
September 8, 2024 Pastor Daniel Lewis
Scripture: 2 Kings 5:1-19
September 1, 2024 Pastor David Gossett
Scripture: Jonah 2:1-10
August 25, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Genesis 15:1-21
August 18, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Genesis 3:1-15
This sermon series will take us on a journey through Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount. Throughout this series, we will hear Jesus invite us to follow Him as He preaches about the coming of the kingdom of God.
August 11, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Matthew 7:13-14
August 4, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Matthew 7:1-12
July 28, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Matthew 6:19-34
July 21, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Matthew 6:1-18
July 14, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Matthew 5:21-48
July 7, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Matthew 5:17-20
June 30, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Matthew 5:13-16
June 23, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Matthew 5:3-12
June 16, 2024 Pastor Daniel Lewis
Scripture: Luke 2:1-18
June 9, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Romans 3:19-24
June 2, 2024 Pastor David Gossett
Scripture: Isaiah 41:10 & 1 John 4:18
May 26, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Deuteronomy 4:5-9
Easter Sunday through Pentecost Sunday, our new sermon series, “My Neighborhood,” will be our focus as a congregation. Through this series, the congregation will be encouraged to engage with people in their immediate neighborhoods in order to serve them and show them the hope of Christ for their lives. Being a blessing in our community is where it starts. We begin by making friends, building relationships, and attending to those divine appointments the Lord sets up for us when we serve.
May 19, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Luke 24:45-51
May 12, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Genesis 12:1-3
May 5, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Luke 10:25-35
April 28, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
April 21, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:16-20
April 14, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Luke 10:25-37
March 31, 2024 (Easter) Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Mark 10:45
April 7, 2024 Monica Boseff, Guest Speaker from Romania
Scripture: Romans 8:38-39
In this series we will experience the importance of the events leading up to the resurrection of Christ on Easter Sunday. Those events remind us that even when God doesn’t act in the way we expect, His plans always take our present circumstances and our future needs into account. Jesus redefined Israel’s expectations of what the Messiah would look like. Rather than being a military hero, he died on a cross. This world and our own hearts are filled with darkness and death, but we can have hope if we place our faith in the Light of the World, Jesus, who defeated death by entering into it. The resurrection of Jesus Christ enhances our faith and helps us to trust in Jesus more deeply.
March 24, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Matthew 21:1-11
March 17, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Philippians 3:12-21
March 10, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Matthew 27:45-56
March 3, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: John 6:25-71
This series looks at the gift of God’s refining work in our lives. Like a loving parent, God nurtures and disciplines us so we can grow into the people he wants us to become. This sermon series will remind us that God’s refinement process is not always easy, but it is always good.
February 25, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Acts 2
February 18, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Isaiah 40:1-31
February 11, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Job 42:10-17
February 4, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Psalm 73:1-28
This series examines the ideas of focus, attention, and how God wants us to keep our eyes on Jesus and his kingdom. The concepts of “seeing” and “fixing our eyes” show us that, like athletes, Christians should develop the habit of focusing their attention on Jesus and combating distractions that would keep their eyes, minds, and life focused on other things.
January 28, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Philippians 4:2-9
January 14, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Proverbs 4:23-27
January 7, 2024 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Matthew 6:19-24
December 31, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Hebrews 12:1-4
The activity of God makes the world go ’round. Advent is an emptying, quieting, anticipating space that God disrupts by meeting us at our most vulnerable. Join us this Advent season in exploring the transformative movement of a God who only has to speak to change the world. In a creative departure from the norm, Joy of Every Longing Heart spotlights the Psalms across the four Sundays of Advent, examining themes of light, love, joy, and peace. Come along with us on this journey and invite the Holy Spirit to guide you as you watch and wait and long for the movement of God in the world and in your life.
December 24, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Psalm 89
December 17, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Psalm 126
December 10, 2023 Christmas Musical Program
Pastor Jerry Carter - Scripture: Psalm 85
December 3, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: John 21:15-17
November 26, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Matthew 8:5-13
This series follows Jesus to the different meals he shared with people throughout his earthly ministry. He ate with sinners and saints, teaching, loving, and extending grace from table to table.
November 19, 2023 Pastor Daniel Lewis
Scripture: John 21:15-17
November 12, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Matthew 16:24-26
November 5, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Luke 10:38-42
October 29, 2023 Pastor David Gossett
Scripture: Luke 11:37-54
October 22, 2023 Pastor David Gossett
Scripture: Luke 7:36-50
October 15, 2023 Pastor Daniel Lewis
Scripture: Luke 15:11-32
There is a popular saying: “Share the gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.” This sermon series covers how to share the Gospel in practical ways by studying the methods of our greatest evangelism model, Jesus Christ. The world needs to know Jesus, and it is absolutely necessary for us to be able to share His story.
October 8, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Luke 5:1-11
October 1, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: John 4:1-42
September 24, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Matthew 9:9-13
September 17, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Matthew 28:16-20
The apostle Paul took three major missionary journeys throughout the Roman Empire. This series will look at each of these trips from a high overview and then examine the overlapping themes present for each of them as we explore what it means to be a missionary today.
September 10, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Acts 16:16-24; Acts 19:23-41
September 3, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Acts 28:24 - 19:8
August 20, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Acts 15, 17:16-34
August 13, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Isaiah 43:18-19
All five questions are best understood after watching August 13th sermon.
In what ways might we be impeding the gospel by resisting the new and pressing for the old?
In what ways might we be seen as “anti-everything” rather than being seen as practicing dangerous grace?
In what ways might we be driven more by what we’ll lose than by what the kingdom will gain?
In what ways might we be striving for safe, comfortable, and convenient rather than adventure, journey, and quest?
As a church, might we be asking too much of people or are we not asking enough?
August 27, 2023 Missionary Sunday
Bruce McKellips, Eurasia Region - Western Mediterranean Field
This sermon series is based on the book Arrow Striker: Live with Purpose and Leave an Eternal Impact … Every Single Day by Jonathan Hardy. No matter their career, stage of life, spiritual knowledge, or past mistakes, this series will motivate congregants to step into all God has for them and to accomplish his purposes every day. Using the story of Elisha and King Jehoash in 2 Kings 13, this series will inspire people to give their best to God so that he can use them in even greater ways to influence family, friends, the church, and local community.
August 6, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Judges 6:11-24
July 30, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Matthew 15:21-28
July 16, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Matthew 25:14-30
July 9, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: 2 Kings 13
July 23, 2023 Pastor David Gossett and Youth Group
Sharing Experiences at Nazarene Youth Conference
This sermon series reveals how we can grow during difficult times in life. By persevering, trusting God, forgiving others, and serving others we can squeeze lemonade from the lemons that life throws at us.
July 2, 2023 Pastor Daniel Lewis
Scripture: Philippians 4:10-23
June 25, 2023 Pastor David Gossett
Scripture: Genesis 45:3-15
June 18, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: Psalm 23
June 11, 2023 Pastor Jerry Carter
Scripture: James 1:2-4