Sermons

Comfortably Numb

INTRO Great Grandma’s Pot Roast SCRIPTURE Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. So they came to Jesus and said, “Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?” Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot fast while the…

Signpost on the Road to Nowhere

Intro Welcome! [[[ BABYLON BEE ]]] Passage — Mark 1:40–45 40 Now a leper came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help. “If you are willing, you can make me clean,” he said. 41 Moved with indignation, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I…

An Evidential Gospel

Intro 29, 31, 33, 34 [[[ COMMUNITY S02E09 - AND ]]] Mark is like a kid, and then, and then. It’s fun. Passage Now as soon as they left the synagogue, they entered Simon and Andrew’s house, with James and John. Simon’s mother-in-law was lying down, sick with a fever,…

Finding Yourself

Intro Second-screening during the video Anti-Social media Robs us of our humanity Millennials & Gen Z are the loneliest generations by survey. People who are always connected with hundreds of friends. Why? Because humans are a social animal. And we want to be a part of something bigger than ourselves.…

Take Care of Your Tools

Intro Good morning, my name is Conrad, I’m one of the pastors here. And today, I’d like to talk about my Dad. We lost him to cancer 8 years ago this past October at the age of just 55. But in the brief time that he had on this terrestrial…

Into The Wilderness

Prologue Good morning, my name is Conrad and I’m one of the pastors here at Surrey CLA. How many people in the room this morning are familiar with the idea of “wandering in the wilderness”? Typically when we talk about wandering in the wilderness, we are referring to something like…

Foreshadow

Intro Halloween Safety is what makes fear fun -> in the pocket Scripture 13 So Boaz married Ruth and slept with her. The Lord enabled her to conceive and she gave birth to a son. The village women said to Naomi, “May the Lord be praised because he has not…

Beautiful Mess

Intro [ MYTHBUSTERS - STILL ] [ MYTHBUSTERS - IDIOM HISTORY ] Passage Then Boaz said to the leaders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I have acquired from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Kilion, and Mahlon. 10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, the…

Hurts So Good

The Intro [ Parent Saves Video ] It’s always fun to watch these videos, isn’t it? When I was looking these up, my kids gathered around to watch and we all ooh’d and ahh’d and laughed and gasped and good times were had by all. But that parental instinct is…

What Are You Waiting For?

The Hook I’ve often talked about my love of baseball, and that has rubbed off on my boys. Teddy is just starting competitive baseball – where runs and outs are actually recorded – next spring. But Jonas started this past spring with Spring Ball, then immediately followed it up with…

Dust in the Wind

The Hook High School english class. Just the thought of it conjures up images of Ben Stein from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, or The Wonder Years. But despite my general lack of interest in learning the nuances of the language I spoke every day, I still discovered some works that…

Have a Little Faith

INTRO STORY You know, I was a youth pastor for many years, and had a number of wonderful, memorable students over that time. For a season during seminary I ran both the senior (grade 8–12) and junior (grade 5–8) youth ministries. I had no adult leaders during this time. So…