Sunday Evening Q&A: May 20, 2012
Sunday Evening Q&A May 20, 2012 A fifteen minute interlude to watch the solar eclipse did nothing to diminish the discussion Sunday night. Pastor Matt expanded on a variety of issues related to spiritual gifts in response to diverse questions from the congregation. Audio: May 20, 2012, Evening Q&A
Audio: Finding Your Grace-Equipment
Christ’s Body in Motion Ephesians 4.15-16 Matthew Raley (5-20-12) Alexander the Ephesian has a new identity in Christ. He no longer serves Dionysus. His new identity has exiled him from the theater and the Ephesian ecclesia, but has created a new role for him in the ecclesia of Christ. He now composes hymns for the church. [...]
Audio: Q&A Service
Sunday Evening Q&A May 13, 2012 For the past year, many of us have met regularly on Sunday evenings to discuss the sermon with Pastor Matt and put him on the spot by asking questions about the material he presents Sunday morning. Pastor Matt has commented that Sunday evening is when he really starts preaching as [...]
Audio: Your Grace-Work
Christ’s Body in Motion Ephesians 4.14-16 Matthew Raley (5-13-12) There is nothing more striking about Saul of Tarsus than his cruelty. He tortured, imprisoned, and even killed people. But after he is struck blind by Christ on the road to Damascus, Saul encounters a man named Ananias, who not only heals Saul’s blindness but treats [...]
Audio: Grace Equipment
Christ’s Body in Motion Ephesians 4.15 Matthew Raley (5-6-12) Alexander the Ephesian has come to believe Paul’s message and has begun living according to his new identity. He refuses to participate any longer in the Dionysian orgies, or to honor Dionysus during festival processions. Because of this he can no longer be an actor. His [...]
Audio: Two Revolutionary Words
Christ’s Body in Motion Ephesians 4:7-16 Matthew Raley (4-29-12) When we started our study of Paul’s letter to the Ephesian church, I described a character named Alexander to help us understand what Paul wrote. Alexander, the 1st century Ephesian, as an actor is a follower of Dionysus. As a free Ephesian citizen—and thus a member of the city ecclesia—he [...]
Audio: The Real Battle
A Biblical Response To Gay Marriage 1 Corinthians 6.13 Matthew Raley, 4- 22-12 We, the followers of Christ, are not currently in a battle over the deep structure of America law and culture. Most Americans are in that battle, but we are not. Our battle is another in the war God has waged to [...]
Audio: What Is Marriage in the Bible?
A Biblical Response to Gay Marriage Various texts Matthew Raley, (4-15-12) We confront the reality that we are living in a culture that no longer holds the biblical concept of marriage. In today’s sermon we will be asking what are our duties as Christians in this new reality? This question, we will find, is not, [...]
Audio: The Lord Vanishes
Resurrection Sunday Luke 24: 13-35 Matthew Raley (4-8-12) The Jesus of the Gospels has many strange qualities. For instance, he finds ways to delay performing miracles. Sometimes he maginfies the impossiblity of a situation. The disciples tell him the five thousand people in his wildereness audience are hungry. He says, “You feed them.” At other [...]
