Summit Ridge Sermon Podcast

What Christmas Meant to King Herod

Matthew 2:7-21
1 Peter 1:3
Romans 15:4
(NASB 2020)
“The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity–hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory–because at the Father’s will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.” -J.I. Packer

Annual Celebration: ”Where Do We Go From Here?”

Lead Pastor Dan Acker
November 21, 2021
John 6:52-6
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life Brennan Manning: What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far country. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus
1 Corinthians 15:5
Philippians 3:13-14
(NASB 2020)
 

Revelation: ”A New Beginning (Again)”

Ecclesiastes 3:11
The UNENDING life in Christ
Revelation 22: 1-2, John 4:14
The UNRELENTING love of Christ
Revelation 22: 3-4, 2 Corinthians 3:18
The CONSTANT presence with Christ
Revelation 22: 5, Psalm 27:4, Psalm 16:11
"Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God." - A.W. Tozer 
Revelation 2:6-7  
"When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right - something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise. It will be too late then to choose your side." -C.S. Lewis
(NASB 2020)
 
 

Revelation: ”The Hard Journey to Our Great Future”

Revelation 6:1-17
Psalm 23
(NASB 2020)
The journey to the future is HARD for everyone with the result of LIFE in Christ for some and DEATH for others.
Martin Luther: I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years. C.S. Lewis: Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
John Burke, Imagine Heaven -”How you think about Heaven affects everything in life - how you prioritize love, how willing you are to sacrifice for the long term, how you view suffering, what you fear or don’t fear.” Jonathan Edwards: The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. Jesus is the one and only judge between who’s in and who’s out. He defines who his church is, not us 
 

Revelation: ”A Glimpse of the Future”

Revelation 4:1-11
Ezekiel 1:28
Exodus 19:16-18
(NASB 1995)

Revelation: ”Is God in My Pocket or in My Life?”

Revelation 3:14-2
Colossians 1:15
Luke 12:16-2
John 9:39-4
Proverbs 3:11-1
Matthew 6:25-33
(NASB 1995)
 
 

Shifting from Giving Up to Pressing On

Lead Pastor Dan Acker
Revelation 3:7-13 
2 Corinthians 5:10
(NASB 2020)
Jesus, in the end, gets the final SAY, not those who believe they get their own WAY.
 

Shifting from the Casual to the Captivated

Lead Pastor Dan Acker
(NASB 2020)
Revelation 3:1-6
Matthew 7:21-23
JOHN CALVIN:  “The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.”
TIM KELLER: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope. 
October 10, 2021
 

Revelation:”Shift From Immorality to Holiness”

Lead Pastor Dan Acker
October 3, 2021
Revelation 2:18-29 (NASB 2020)
CHARLES SPURGEON: The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.” MARTIN LUTHER: Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.
 
So many Christian churches in the United States do so much good — nourishing the soul, comforting the sick, providing services, counseling congregants, teaching Jesus’s example, and even working to fight sexual abuse and harassment. But like in any community of faith, there is also sin — often silenced, ignored and denied — and it is much more common than many want to believe. It has often led to failures by evangelicals to report sexual abuse, respond appropriately to victims and change the institutional cultures that enabled the abuse in the first place.  -Washington Post 2018
 

Revelation: ”Shift from Compromise to Conviction”

Lead Pastor Dan Acker
September 26, 2021
Revelation 2:12-17 (NASB2020)
“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...” -C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters