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Recent Sermons

In addition to sermon audio and video files, many of our sermons have other resources available like extended summaries and study guides. Our archive dates back to 1992 and all resources are free to download and distribute. Most sermons are by our Senior Pastor, Greg Boyd.

A Different Kind of Fire

• Dan Kent

In this sermon, Dan Kent examines how we respond when others judge us. He first looks at how the world teaches us to respond, and then he offers a different response that is shaped by God’s perspective.

Topics: Judgment, Love


Our Civic Responsibility

• Cedrick Baker

In this sermon, Cedrick Baker brings clarity to what it means to be civically engaged in our world in a Kingdom way. He offers insight into ways that we can be God's love and light without falling into the traps of polarization.

Topics: Justice, Kingdom of God


Playing God

• Greg Boyd

This sermon explores the four primary passages from the Bible that explain why judgment is forbidden.

Topics: Judgment, Love


Cross Examination Q&A

• Bill Doherty, Cedrick Baker, Greg Boyd, Shawna Boren

This panel conversation addresses the practical implications of the teaching on what it means to live in love and forego judgment of others.

Topics: Judgment, Love


A Tale of Two Trees

• Greg Boyd

There were two trees in the Garden of Eden, one representing where we get true life from and one representing a prohibition from what steals from life. This sermon explores the significance of these two trees.

Topics: Judgment, Love


Character Is Destiny

• Greg Boyd

We become what we practice. We practice what we imagine is the goal of where we are going. As Christ followers, we are to set the goal of living in love so that we can practice love to become more loving.

Topics: Discipleship, Love


The Point of It All

• Greg Boyd

God calls us to replicate the love of the cross instead of passing judgment upon others. We do this as we live into the reality of our inclusion in God’s love and our identity in Christ, as part of the Triune, cruciform love that God is.

Topics: Judgment, Love, Power


Our Central Mandate

• Greg Boyd

In this introductory sermon to the “Cross Examination” series, Greg lays out the all-important challenge to live in love in the way that is defined by Christ on the cross. This sermon also details how this mandate to love goes against the grain of our culture which is dominated by divisiveness and judgment.

Topics: Judgment, Love, Politics


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