09 God’s Wisdom For A Complex World: Garden Living (6:1-19)
Sermon Notes: God's Wisdom For A Complex World 09: Garden Living (6:1-19)
Nate HoldridgeMarch 16, 2025
07 God’s Wisdom for a Complex World: What’s Forming You? (Proverbs 4)
Sunday Sermon: 07 God's Wisdom for a Complex World: What's Forming You? (Proverbs 4)
Nate HoldridgeMarch 2, 2025
Stay Free in the Gospel: In Christian Liberty (Galatians 4:12-16)
Today, we pick up in the middle of Paul’s loving appeal to the Galatians, pleading with them to stay firm in the gospel of grace rather than being swayed by…
Nate HoldridgeDecember 12, 2024
04 An Advancing Gospel Community: Breaks Into Darkness (Philippians 2:12-30)
Sunday Teaching: 04 An Advancing Gospel Community: Breaks Into Darkness (Philippians 2:12-30)
Nate HoldridgeNovember 3, 2024
Paul Used the Example of Abraham to Demonstrate Gospel Truth (Galatians 3:1-9)
The book of Galatians is a letter detailing a struggle for the gospel of grace. Paul was a first-century apostle, and God's purpose for Paul was to send him to…
Nate HoldridgeSeptember 26, 2024
03 Maturity Profiled—The Mature Receive Wisdom—James 1:19-26
Sunday Sermon: The Mature Receive Wisdom—James 1:19-26
Nate HoldridgeMay 26, 2024
Knowing God 13—God’s Commands—Exodus 20
Sunday Sermon: Knowing God 13—God's Commands—Exodus 20
Nate HoldridgeJanuary 14, 2024
Fly 15 — Run In Gospel Grace— Galatians 5:7-15
Sunday Sermon: Run In Gospel Grace— Galatians 5:7-15
Nate HoldridgeMarch 26, 2023
Outworkings and Witnesses of the Gospel’s Truthfulness – Three Witnesses (1 John 5:6–12)
Last week, John told us of three outworkings of the gospel in our lives -- love, obedience and belief. Today, John will give us three witnesses to the gospel's truthfulness.…
Nate HoldridgeOctober 19, 2021
The Origin of Truth and Love – 3 Tests for Messages You Hear (1 John 4:2-6)
Last week we considered the importance of not believing every message we hear, but testing them to see if they are from God (1 John 4:1). Today we will look…
Nate HoldridgeSeptember 7, 2021
Walk in Truth – Continue in the Spirit’s Teaching (1 John 2:26-27)
John wants us to, first, consider the season we are in. Second, he wants us to confess Jesus as the Son. Third, and finally, we learn in these verses, he…
Nate HoldridgeJune 22, 2021
Walk in Truth – Confess the Son (1 John 2:21-25)
John was clear. The church he wrote to **knew the truth** (21). They had not partaken in the **lie** floating around at that time (21). And it's a lie still…
Nate HoldridgeJune 15, 2021
Walk in Truth – Consider the Season (1 John 2:18-20)
I want you to think of Joseph in the section of John's writing we are entering into today. You see, when you come to Christ, there is a feeling of…
Nate HoldridgeJune 8, 2021
The Test of a True Believer — Keep God’s Word (1 John 2:4-5)
In 1 John 1, John ordered his writing by recording three claims. He started each with the phrase "if we say," followed by the claim. Here, in this passage, he…
Nate HoldridgeMarch 23, 2021
The Test of a True Believer – An Overview (1 John 2:3)
At this point in John's letter, the readers may have felt he was singling them out. He had written about those who were walking in darkness, denying the presence of…
Nate HoldridgeMarch 16, 2021
God’s Light Produces a Chain Reaction of Grace (1 John 1:8–9)
Here, John shows us God's light produces a chain reaction of grace. We see ourselves honestly, confess our sins, and He faithfully continues His work of sanctification, shaping and molding…
Nate HoldridgeMarch 2, 2021
God Is Light (1 John 1:5)
In 1 John 1:1-4, we read John's purpose statement, his heart for his readers, a group of Christians in a circuit surrounding Ephesus, where he'd pastored. He loved this group…
Nate HoldridgeFebruary 16, 2021
Goal #3 of First John: Produce True Joy (1 John 1:1-4)
One thing I love about John's writing is his willingness to directly state his reasons for writing. One reason this is beautiful is that his letters, especially this first one,…
Nate HoldridgeFebruary 9, 2021
Jesus Christ: The Ultimate Man – Part 2
This is not the title I normally use of Jesus. Perhaps I've developed an allergy to the title after hearing many say, "Jesus was a good teacher, a prophet, but…
Nate HoldridgeDecember 15, 2020
3 Protections For Today’s Believers – Part 2 (1 John 2:18-27)
John was clear. The church he wrote to **knew the truth** (21). They had not partaken in the **lie** floating around at that time (21). And it's a lie still…
Nate HoldridgeNovember 19, 2020
Video Message: This Is Who You Are
Romans 6:11 is a verse I preach to myself every single day. I have to remember constantly that when I placed my faith in Jesus, He let me die to…
Nate HoldridgeOctober 9, 2020
God Is Light, Part 2 (1 John 1:5-22)
The first thing John tells us God's light produces is fellowship with one another and personal growth, or sanctification, within. But before detailing this, John records the first claim of…
Nate HoldridgeSeptember 29, 2020
God Is Light, Part 1 (1 John 1:5-22)
We read John's purpose statement, his heart for his readers, a group of Christians in a circuit surrounding Ephesus, where he'd pastored. He loved this group and, fearing the false…
Nate HoldridgeSeptember 22, 2020
An Almost Unbelievable Truth (Romans 6:11)
Let me remind you of an almost unbelievable truth, one I say to myself a dozen times a day. "So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive…
Nate HoldridgeSeptember 10, 2020
A Guide For The Climb – Chapter 14 – War for Unity (Psalm 133)
“The Bible has the answers,” they say. Knowing how messed up life and the world and relationships can be, you decide to read it. Perhaps, you think, you will find…
Nate HoldridgeAugust 13, 2020
Video Message: Understanding Goals for Your Kids
Many parents are completely unprepared when it comes time to raise, not their little children, but raising young adult children. The goal during their adolescent years should be to teach…
Nate HoldridgeAugust 7, 2020
A Goal for Parenting Teens (1 Samuel 3:8-9)
Many parents are completely blindsided by the teenage years. What they aren't prepared for is the difference between raising children and adolescents. The goal for each is different, and the…
Nate HoldridgeJuly 9, 2020
Jeremiah, like most of the prophets, was a solitary pillar of truth in a wasteland of doctrinal deception. He stood for the truth of God, saying hard things during hard…
Nate HoldridgeApril 23, 2019
Take Up Your War-Clothes (Ephesians 6:13-17)
To win the spiritual war, we must put on Christ's war-clothes. Paul lists six pieces of the spiritual armor. Paul was, remember, imprisoned as he wrote. He had seen Romans…
Nate HoldridgeMarch 22, 2019
Job, in the midst of a massive trial, had three friends who attempted to confront him with "their truth," which were all lies, and Job knew it. Though his perspective…
Nate HoldridgeMarch 11, 2019
Not counting little fender benders here and there, I have been in two major car accidents. Every day, I feel fortunate to be alive. In both collisions, however, I saw…
Nate HoldridgeDecember 17, 2018
The New You: Truthful And Free Of Anger (Ephesians 4:25-27)
After reminding the Ephesians of what they had learned from Jesus, namely to put off the old and put on the new, Paul explained five areas to take off and…
Nate HoldridgeNovember 2, 2018
Truth Can Be Acquired. Here’s How. (Proverbs 18.15)
One mark of the last days is a perception that one cannot arrive at any real conclusions about God...2 Minutes
Nate HoldridgeMarch 24, 2018
The Origin of Truth and Love – Love One Another (1 John 4:7-12)
Once again, John takes us back to a main theme of his: let us love one another. He's not like Paul, who was more linear in his arguments. Instead, John…
Nate HoldridgeAugust 23, 2015