Summit Ridge Sermon Podcast

in search of CHURCH: how does God build a body: "Who We Are: Core Value #2: Community"

November 3, 2024
Associate Pastor Eric Burch
 
Summit Ridges Values:
Grace
Community
Serving
Generosity
 
We Value Community
We are created to be in community- to do life together. Together we worship, laugh, cry, give, serve, learn, and grow as followers of Jesus Christ.
 
We were Created to be in Community
Genesis 1:26-27
 
What does it Mean to be in Community?
Leviticus 26:11-13
Leviticus 4:13-14
Ezra 3:10-11
Acts 2:42-47
 
We Value Community
We are created to be in community- to do life together. Together we worship, laugh, cry, give, serve, learn, and grow as followers of Jesus Christ.
 
How do we live in Community?
Matthew 5:16
Matthew 7:12
Galatians 5:22-26 
Hebrews 10:24-25
 

in search of CHURCH: how does God build a body: "Who We Are: Core Value #1: Grace"

October 27, 2024
Associate Pastor Louise Waller
 
What is God’s Grace?
Romans 3:10-18
Romans 5:8
How do we receive Grace?
How do we extend Grace? 
Attitude
Practice
2 Corinthians 9:8
2 Corinthians 12:9
Grace = Agape Love
Grace is Holy
 
(NIV)
 

in search of CHURCH: how does God build a body: "Who We Are: Our Mission"

October 20, 2024
Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker
 
Jeremiah 29:11Jeremiah 32:19Psalms 33:11 Romans 8:28Ephesians 2:10Mark 10:45
 
Mission of Summit Ridge Community Church: To make disciples who Serve Christ by Serving People.
 
Matthew 28:16-20
 
"It's just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says." -Dallas Willard
 
“If you make disciples, you always get the church. But if you make a church, you rarely get disciples.” -Mike Breen
 
"Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.” -Dietrich Bon Hoeffer
“The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.” -Paul David Tripp
 
Matthew 22:36-40
 
"You cannot obey the Great Commission until you obey the Great Command" -Al McKay
 
"It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for fainthearted ministers or those who don't like to get their religious robes wrinkled. But it is what the Great Commission is all about" -Rick Warren
 
(NET)
 
 
 

Being the Church: The Book of Philemon: "The Great Equalizer"

October 13, 2024
Associate Pastor Eric Burch
 
Galatians 3:26-29
 
We are a New Creation
2 Corinthians 5:17-18
Philemon 4-7
Philemon 10-14
 
We have a Alternative Way to Act
Romans 8:28-29
Matthew 5:13-15
Philemon 20-25 
Philippians 2:5-8
 
5 Ways to be Like Christ in this World
Matthew 28:18-20 
 
(NASB 2020)
 

Western Regional Gathering: Phillipine Global Update

October 6, 2024
Scott Soden, Global Partners Coordinator, Brethren Church National Office Staff
Pastor Gary Castro, Philippine Brethren Church

Being the Church: The Book of Philemon: "Give Thanks"

September 30, 2024
Associate Pastor Justin Brunenkant
Associate Pastor Louise Waller
Associate Pastor Eric Burch
 
Philemon 1: 1-7 
(NKJV)

This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: Serving"

September 22, 2024
Associate Pastor Eric Burch
 
We serve Christ by Serving People
Colossians 4:7-8
Romans 1:1 
1 Timothy 1:1-2 
Colossians 4:9-13
 
Serving Christ by Serving People Takes Many Forms
 
1 Peter 3:15 
Colossians 4:14-15 (NET)
Romans 12:9-13
Colossians 4:16-18
1 Peter 4:10-11
 
(NASB)
 
 

This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: Prayer"

September 15, 2024
Associate Pastor Justin Brunenkant
 
(There were intermittent audio issues with this recording.  Sorry for the inconvenience.)
 
Colossians 4:1-6
Daniel 6:10
Luke 18:1-8
Matthew 7:11
 
(NKJV)
 

This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: Healthy Relationships"

September 8, 2024
Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker
 
“Denial of one's need for others is the most common type of defense against bonding. If people come from a situation, whether growing up or later in life, where good, safe relationships were not available to them, they learn to deny that they even want them. Why want what you can't have? They slowly get rid of their awareness of the need.” -Henry Cloud 
 
SUBMIT and LOVE
 
Colossians 3:18-19
Colossians 2:14-15
"Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honor should decline." -G.K. Chesterton
 
“Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.” -Wm. Paul Young 
 
OBEY and RESPECT
 
Colossians 3:20-21
 
"Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be." -David Blye
"The soul is healed by being with children". -Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
LISTEN and SERVE
 
Colossians 3:22-25
1 Corinthians 7:12-16
 
 
 
 
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This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: Unity and Love"

September 1, 2024
Associate Pastor Louise Waller
(Technical difficulties at the beginning caused low audio.)
 
Colossians 3:12-17
Unity and Love are REQUIRED
No worship without loving community
John 13:34-35
(Song: They’ll Know We are Christians by Our Love)
No New Life in Christ without loving community
‘In the Name of Christ’
Loving community is The Glory of God
Psalm 133
They are Worth it
"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, toremember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one daybe a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship,or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in anightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one ofother of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, itis with the awe and circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct allour dealings with one another; all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. Thereare no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations,cultures, arts, civilization itself – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as thelife of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, andexploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. Next to the BlessedSacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."C.S. Lewis
(NIV)