Summit Ridge Sermon Podcast

The Book of James: "Pursue One Another"

June 9, 2024
Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker
 
James 5:19-20
Isaiah 53:6
 
3 Causes of Wandering:
 
1) Believing that following Jesus is easy
 
Matthew 7:13-14
 
"Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.Charles Spurgeon: You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross." -Mother Teresa
 
2) Listening to anyone who claims to speak for Christ
 
Matthew 7: 15-23
1 Corinthians 2:1-5
 
3) Believing that words are more important than actions
 
Matthew 7: 24-27
 
 "Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith." -Charles Spurgeon
 
“We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.” -Billy Graham
 
(NET)
 

The Book of James: "It's a Team Effort!"

June 2, 2024
Associate Pastor Eric Burch
James 1:2-4 NASB
 
Go to God First
James 5:13 
“James means that there is no time in which God does not invite us to Himself.” -John Calvin
“Our whole life should be so angled towards God that whatever strikes us, whether sorrow or joy, should be deflected upwards at once into His presence.” -Alec Motyer
 
Don’t Go It Alone
James 5:14-15
Acts 20:28 
Matthew 18:19-21
Hebrews 10:35-37 
 
Reconcile Sooner than Later
Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. -James 5:16a
Matthew 5:23-24
James 4:1-2 
 
Make Human Effort, expect Supernatural Results
A prayer of a righteous person, when it is brought about, can accomplish much. -James 5:16b
The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective -James 5:16b (NIV)
James 5:17-18
 
(NASB)
 

The Book of James: "Living Well with Others, Part 2"

May 26, 2024
Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker
 
James 5:12
 
"Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known." -John Knox
 
Matthew 5:34-37
 
Leviticus 19:11-12
 
(NET)
 

The Book of James: "Living Well with Others, Part 1"

May 19, 2024
Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker
 
Psalm 133:1
Romans 12:18
 
START waiting
James 5:7-8
James 1:2-4
 
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."-Leo Tolstoy
"Pampered bodies grow sluggish through sloth; not work but movement and their own weight exhausts them. Prosperity unbruised cannot endure a single blow, but a man who has been at a constant feud with misfortunes acquires skin calloused by suffering; he yields to no evil and even if he stumbles carries the fight on upon his knee." -Seneca 
 
STOP Complaining
James 5:9
 
“The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speaks of his sufferings in a natural, true, and sincere way, without murmuring, complaining, or exaggerating them.” -St. Francis de Sales
 
Psalm 142:2
Psalm 88:15-18
 
STAY the course
James 5:10-11
Hebrews 12:1
 
(NET)
 

The Book of James: "How to Live Rich, Part 2"

May 12, 2024
Associate Pastor Louise Waller
 
James 5:1-6
Why are riches dangerous?
The World’s Lie: Money = Power = Safety
YOU CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS
Matthew 6:33
1 Timothy 6:17-19
Acts 4: 32-35
Seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness
Luke 12:34
Malachi 3:10
 
(NIV)
 

The Book of James: "How to Live Rich, Part 1"

May 5, 2024
Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker
 
"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast." -Jane Austen
 "The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him." -Xun Kuang
 
"It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church." -Matthew Henry
 
James 4:13-17
 
Ecclesiastes 10:14
 
Jeremiah 9:23-24
 
1 Corinthians 1:26-31
 
 
 

The Book of James: "Trash the Trash Talk!"

April 28, 2024
Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker
James 4:11-12
Matthew 5:21-22
Matthew 5:27-30
Matthew 3:31-37
Proverbs 6:16-19
 
Socrates: “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
 
Ephesians 4:29-32
 
Mother Teresa: “These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to want to manage other people's affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. To pass over the mistakes of others. To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one's dignity. To choose always the hardest.”
 
(NET)
 

The Book of James: "Overcoming the Battle Within"

April 21, 2024
Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker
 
"When divisions are rife in religion, it is bound to happen that what is in men’s minds will soon erupt in real conflict. For while nothing is more effective for joining us together, and there is nothing which does more to unite our minds, and keep them peaceful, than agreement in religion, yet if disagreement has somehow arisen in connection with it, the inevitable result is that men are quickly stirred up to engage in fighting, and there is no other field with fiercer disputes." -John Calvin
"What! At peace with the Father, and at war with His children? It cannot be." -John Flavel
"Divisions in the church always breed atheism in the world." -Thomas Manton
"The cause of sin is never so much helped as when Christians waste their strength in quarreling with one another, and spend their time in petty squabbles." -J.C. Ryle
 
James 3:13-4:6
 
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live" -Oscar Wilde
 
”Nothing is bloodier than a religious war. Issues aren’t just as human squabbles; everything is elevated to eternal importance… How tempting… to mistake our will for God’s. How devilish to believe that disagreeing with me is disagreeing with God.” -Marshall Shelly
 
James 4:7-10
 
Romans 7:15
 
(NET)
 
 
 

The Book of James: "What Would Jesus Say?"

April 14, 2024
Associate Pastor Eric Burch
 
James 3:1
1 Corinthians 12:27-28
James 3:2 
Genesis 3:12
Romans 313-14
1 Peter 3:10
James 3:3-4
 
The Tongue is the Master Key for Keeping Our Whole Body in Check.
James 3:5a 
 
The Tongue has Enormous power to do Harm.
James 3:5b-6
Matthew 16:22-23
 
The Tongue is Humanly Uncontrollable.
James 3:7-8
Acts 2:2-4 
 
We struggle with Consistency.
James 3:9-12
Romans 7:21-24
Matthew 12:33-37
 
(NASB 2020)
 

The Book of James: "This is What Faith Looks Like"

April 7, 2024
Associate Pastor Louise Waller
 
James 2:14-16
Faith without action is deadMatthew 25:41-45
Action without faith is deadMatthew 7:15-23
Faith and Action are oneGalatians 6:7-8Ephesians 2:8-10
Faithful Action bears good fruit
 
(NIV)