Summit Ridge Sermon Podcast

December 3, 2023
Lead Pastor Dan Acke
“The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.”-DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
 
Hope is here because…God still SITS on the throne.
Pslam 80:1-3
 
Hope is here because...
God does not REMAIN angry forever.
 
Psalm 80:4-7
Psalm 103:8-10
Micah 7:18
 
Hope is here because...
God will RETURN back to us.
 
Psalm 80:8-19
 
(NET)
 

November 26, 2023
Lead Pastor Dan Acker
 
God expresses himself as a SHEPHERD.
Psalm 100:1-3
 
God expresses himself as a GOOD SHEPHERD.
Pslam 100:4-5Isaiah 53:6
Ezekiel 34:11-16
John 10:11-18
 
"It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them." -Tiberius 
"God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never  abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep."  -J.I. Packer
“We have all things and abound; not because I have a good store of money in the bank, not because I have skill and wit with which to win my bread, but because the Lord is my shepherd.”  -Charles Spurgeon 
 

November 19, 2023
Lead Pastor Dan Acker
Proverbs 16:9
Proverbs 16:1
Proverbs 19:21
Proverbs 20:24
Proverbs 21:30
Isaiah 46:8-10
 
"It is not blind fate, unbridled evil, man or Devil, but the Lord Almighty who is ruling the world, ruling it according to His own good pleasure and for His own eternal glory". -Arthur W. Pink 
"God sovereignly decreed that man should be free to exercise moral choice, and man from the beginning has fulfilled that decree by making his choice between good and evil". -A.W. Tozer
"This is God's universe, and God does things his way. You may have a better way, but you don't have a universe". -J. Vernon McGee: 
 
 
 

Lead Pastor Dan Acker
November 12, 2023
 
I love to give because...
 
Jesus loves to GIVE
 
2 Corinthians 8:1-10
 
Philippians 2: 4-8
 
“For it is in giving that we receive.” ― St. Francis of Assisi
 
I too have been in NEED
 
2 Corinthians 8:11-14
 
I have ENOUGH
 
2 Corinthians 8:15
 
1 Timothy 6:6
 
“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” ―John Bunyan
 
(NET)
 
 

November 5, 2023
Associate Pastor Eric Burch
 
Psalm 107: 1-2
Psalm 46:10
Psalm 107:3-7
Psalm 107:14
Psalm 107:20
Psalm 107:29-34
Proverbs 3:11-12
Psalm 107:35-37
Jeremiah 7:23 
2 Timothy 3:14-17
(NET)
 

October 29, 2023
Associate Pastor Eric Burch
Associate Pastor Louise Waller
Associate Pastor Justin Brunenkant
Worship Pastor Deborah Murphy
Psalm 90:1-6, 13-17
(NET)

October 22, 2023
Associate Past Eric Burc
 
1. God Rules
Psalm 99:1-3
Psalm 2:2-4
Psalm 100:3
Ezekiel 18:20
Colossians 2:13-14
Hebrews 12:28-29
“God is good all the time and all the time ____________”
“God is sovereign and holy all the time and all the time God is sovereign and Holy.”
2. He is Just
Psalm 99:4-5
Matthew 5:11-12
Numbers 23:19
3 He Answers our Prayers
Psalm 99:6-9
Deuteronomy 5:5-6
Exodus 24:1-2
 
(NET)
 

October 15, 2023
Lead Pastor Dan Acker
 
God is so good to us because…
He IS good.
Psalm 106:1-8, 19-23
Luke 18: 18-19
Psalm 14: 1-3
"What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God not savored. The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. The presence of God not prized. The person of God not loved. That is sin." -John Piper
God is so good to us because…everything He DOES is good.
Psalm 106:43-48
"With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures." -AW Tozer"A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God." -Brennan Manning
 
(NET)
 

October 8, 2023
Guest Speaker Latha Kumar

October 1, 2023
Associate Pastor Louise Waller
 
Psalm 78:1-17 
Why teach?Teach What?God is great. God is good.People are rebellious and forgetful.God punishes the rebellious to bring them to repentance.God is always eager to forgive the penitent.Teach by Example; Show and TellTell the storiesShow the disciplineShow the intimacyShow the repentanceShow the obedienceShow the faithfulnessShow and Tell each other
(NIV)