Summit Ridge Sermon Podcast

Seven Challenges of the Church: "Playing Church Instead of Being Church"

February 18, 2024
Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker
 
"I believe that every Christian ought to be joined to some visible church; that is his plain duty, according to the Scriptures. God’s people are not dogs, else they might go about one by one; but they are sheep, and therefore they should be in flocks." -Charles Spurgeon
“The Church needs more people willing to wash feet, not just point out they're dirty or complain that they smell.” -Mark Hart
 
 
Revelation 3:14-22
 
 
"Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul." -A.W. Tozer"We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God's, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior." -John Stott
 
(NET)
 

The Seven Challenges of the Church: "Remaining Devoted to Jesus"

February 11, 2024
Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker
 
“Family is the one human institution we have no choice over. We get in simply by being born, and as a result we are involuntarily thrown together with a menagerie of strange and unlike people. Church calls for another step: to voluntarily choose to band together with a strange menagerie because of a common bond in Jesus Christ. I have found that such a community more resembles a family than any other human institution. Henri Nouwen once defined a community as “a place where the person you least want to live with always lives.” -Philipp Yancey
 
Revelation 3:7-13
 
(NET)
 
 

Seven Challenges of the Church: "The Dangers of Complacency"

February 4, 2024
Associate Pastor Eric Burch
 
Joel 2:12-13
Revelation 3:1-6 
Revelation 3:1
James 2:14-17 
Revelation 2:2-3 
Mathew 10:22 
Revelation 3:4 
Revelation 3:5-6 
 
(NASB 2020)
 
 

Seven Challenges of the Church: "Following the False Prophets"

January 28, 2024
Associate Pastor Eric Burch
 
Revelation 2:18-19
Revelation 2:20
1 Kings 16:30-32
Joshua 1:8 
2 Timothy 3:16-17
Revelation 2:21-23
Revelation 1:16
Matthew 18:6
Revelation 2:24-29 
Psalm 2:4-9
Matthew 13:41-43
(NASB)
 

Seven Challenges of the Church: "Behaving Like the World"

January 21, 2024
Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker
 
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“As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name." -Philip Yancy
 
“Persecution for Christians is not a possibility, it's a promise, it's not a maybe, it's a surely! Following Jesus can mean finding the trouble you've been looking for!” -Kingsley Opuwari Manuel: 
 
Revelation 2:12-17
 
Matthew 15:11
 
“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,..." -CS Lewis
 
(NET)
 

Seven Challenges of the Church: "Suffering For Doing the Right Thing"

January 14, 2024
Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker 
 
“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.” -John Calvin
 
Psalm 94:3-7
 
Revelation 2:8-11
 
“Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took that so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous.” -Tim Keller
 
“Persecution for Christians is not a possibility, it's a promise, it's not a maybe, it's a surely! Following Jesus can mean finding the trouble you've been looking for!” -Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
 
1 Peter 5:10
 
Hebrews 10:25
 
(NET)
 

Seven Challenges of the Church: ”Forgetting Why We Do What We Do”

January 7, 2024
Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker
 
Revelation 2: 1-7
(NET)

The Book of Psalms: ”Praise God!”

December 31, 2023
 
Associate Pastor Louise Waller
Associate Pastor Eric Burch
Millie Ethier
Worship Pastor Deborah Murphy
Lead Pastor Dan Acker
 
Psalm 148 (NET)

Advent: ”The Coming of Love”

December 24, 2023
Associate Pastor Justin Brunenkant
 
Psalm 96:1-13
(NKJV)

Advent: ”The Coming of Joy”

Associate Pastor Eric Burch
December 17, 2023
James 3:13-17 NET
 
Which Do You Want To Be?
 
Psalm 126:1-6
Psalm 126:1-3
Daniel 4:3
Isaiah 61:1-4 (NIV)
Psalm 126:4-6
 
Which Do You Want To Be?
 
Romans 5:8
“Let our hearts gratefully remember the lovingkindness of the Lord; we were sadly low, sorely depressed, and completely past hope, but when Jehovah appeared He did not merely lift us out of depression, He raised us into wonderful happiness. The Lord does nothing in halves; those whom He saves from Hell He brings to heaven. He turns exile into ecstasy and banishment into bliss.” -Charles Spurgeon.
Romans 15:13 (NIV)
 
(NET)