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
Jesus Uses Imperfect Faith To Accomplish His Perfect Work (Mark 9:19-24)
We live in a generation and during a time of high exposure to the world's problems. Like no generation before us, we carry little devices in our pockets that keep…
Nate HoldridgeFebruary 23, 2023
The Anonymity of Pastoral Work
In our modern age, talk of pastoral work as anonymous work seems like a stretch. Maybe the pastor in a rural town on a dusty road is anonymous, but pastoring…
Nate HoldridgeNovember 14, 2022
How To Unleash Jesus’ Mighty Work in Your Life (Mark 6:1-6)
The story before us is one of the most terrifying in all the gospel accounts. Jesus visits his hometown of Nazareth (1), and they are astonished at his words and…
Nate HoldridgeAugust 3, 2022
Believe the Right Things About Jesus (Mark 3:20-35)
Mark sets up our next scene by pointing out two separate groups, Jesus' family and the scribes. But before looking at each group and their response to Christ, Mark is…
Nate HoldridgeJune 8, 2022
Whole-Hearted Work #4—Trust God While You Work (Proverbs 3:1-12)
Sermon: Whole-Hearted Work #4—Trust God While You Work (Proverbs 3:1-12)
Nate HoldridgeMay 22, 2022
Whole-Hearted Work #3—How To Do Good Work (Colossians 3:22-4:1)
Sunday Sermon: Whole-Hearted Work #3—How To Do Good Work (Colossians 3:22-4:1)
Nate HoldridgeMay 15, 2022
Whole-Hearted Work #1—Why Work Matters
Sunday Teaching: Whole-Hearted Work #1—Why Work Matters
Nate HoldridgeApril 24, 2022
How God’s Love Is Perfected in You – Agree With God About How Love Works (1 John 4:19–21)
First, we must recognize all our love is a response to His. We love because He first loved us (19). So God's love comes first to us before it goes…
Nate HoldridgeOctober 6, 2021
How God’s Love Is Perfected in You – Let Love Have Its Perfect Work in You (1 John 4:17–18)
In this section of 1 John, we are learning to let God's love have its perfect work in us (1 John 4:13-21). Last week we considered the importance of growing…
Nate HoldridgeSeptember 28, 2021
Exile Work — 1 Peter 2:18-25 — The Grace of Exile #13
Exile Work -- 1 Peter 2:18-25 -- The Grace of Exile #13
Nate HoldridgeAugust 15, 2021
Exodus 35-37
Chapter 35, and all the way to the end of the book in Chapter 40, is fairly repetitive in that the exact descriptions that God gave to Moses of the…
Nate HoldridgeJune 30, 2021
Your Work Is Worship (Genesis 2:15)
So **the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it**. Later, once sin entered the world, the ground was…
Nate HoldridgeJune 21, 2021
Day 7: What Can We Learn From The First Sabbath? (Genesis 2:1-3)
Because of the finality of creation, **the seventh day** receives special treatment in this verse. It doesn't follow the order of the first six days, where God spoke something into…
Nate HoldridgeMay 31, 2021
Follow #43 – Mark 13:24-37 – The Second Coming Of Christ
On the Mount of Olives outside Jerusalem's temple, a few days before his crucifixion, Jesus explained the end times to his disciples.
Nate HoldridgeFebruary 14, 2021
When Work Goes Sideways (Genesis 11:4)
Before sin entered the world, before the fall, work was a way mankind glorified God. God created us to work, and the garden needed cultivating. And now, under the curse…
Nate HoldridgeNovember 5, 2020
Video Message: What Happens When Your Work Goes Sideways?
In Genesis chapter 11, the citizens of Babel said, “Come let us build a tower to make a name for ourselves.” You see when you go to work to build…
Nate HoldridgeOctober 30, 2020
Adam’s Work (Genesis 2:15)
Adam was called to cultivate the gift God had given him. The earth was his to enjoy. He was called to work, and so are we. (2 Minutes/400 Words)
Nate HoldridgeMay 5, 2020
Let Jesus Build Your Faith (Mark 5:34)
Jairus was desperate. His little girl, only twelve years old, lay sick at the point of death. He heard Jesus had arrived on his shore, so he pushed through the…
Nate HoldridgeJanuary 2, 2020
Faith Works for God (Hebrews 11:7)
I'd get it if Noah objected. He didn't live near a large body of water. The earth likely hadn't produced any rain by the time he came around. We'd understand…
Nate HoldridgeOctober 29, 2019
A Guide for the Climb – Chapter 8 – Embrace God’s Vision for Work and Home (Psalm 127)
In moving through these songs of ascents, one can imagine the pilgrim. He has sung various songs, traveled along the path, and has approached Jerusalem. He is starting now to…
Nate HoldridgeOctober 17, 2019
5 Ways Jesus’ Work Allows Us Freedom Before God (Hebrews 9.1–14)
Zachary was terrified. He knew the Day was fast approaching, and he didn't feel ready for it, not in the slightest. Once each year, he had to go in. He…
Nate HoldridgeAugust 22, 2019
Over a million dollars worth chucked into the fire. New Ephesian converts took their magic books and paraphernalia, demonic stuff that it was, and destroyed it all. Someone took the…
Nate HoldridgeJuly 30, 2019
The ancient Israelite approached God with blood sacrifice, for without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins (Hebrews 9:22). One offering, however, was different. The grain offering…
Nate HoldridgeMay 16, 2019
United In The Workplace — Leaders (Ephesians 6:9)
Paul shifts his exhortations for the workplace from the slaves to the masters, from the working class to management. “Do the same to them,” he says. He had just written…
Nate HoldridgeMarch 8, 2019
A point comes in any church's life where atrophy sets in. The passion and joy and labor begin to dry up as people begin to grow discouraged in the mission.…
Nate HoldridgeMarch 6, 2019
United In The Workplace — Workforce (Ephesians 6:5-8)
The church, for every generation, consists of all types of people. Some have been enslaved, others have been upper class. Some have been laborers, others have been thought workers. Some…
Nate HoldridgeMarch 1, 2019
Inhale, then exhale. The lungs expand and retract, the good stuff in, the bad stuff out. All day long, during sleep, while awake, your body breathes. You do it without…
Nate HoldridgeDecember 5, 2018
Ease Today, Pain Tomorrow (Proverbs 20:21) “An inheritance obtained too early in life is not a blessing in the end.” (Proverbs 20:21 NLT). The wings strain. Push. Press. Push. The…
Nate HoldridgeNovember 21, 2018
The New You (Continued)/ Hardworking, Edifying, And Kind (Ephesians 4.28-32)
(cont’d) Third, Paul told them to be hardworking — “Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he…
Nate HoldridgeNovember 9, 2018
The believers in Antioch were far different from the culture they lived in. Because they lived in an environment without a connection to Judaism like the church in Jerusalem had…
Nate HoldridgeSeptember 19, 2018
God-Hearted #27 — 2 Samuel 15 — If Christ Inspires You, You’ll Follow Him Anywhere
Teaching outline for 2 Samuel 15.
Nate HoldridgeSeptember 2, 2018
The halfway point of any work for God is a dangerous place. Nehemiah and the people who had a mind to work got to their halfway point rather quickly. But…
Nate HoldridgeDecember 19, 2017
United For Unity #11 — United In Home & Work (Ephesians 6:1-9)
Teaching outline for Ephesians 6:1-8.
Nate HoldridgeDecember 10, 2017
What Hour Did You Show Up?
Jesus, the master storyteller, spoke of a fictitious vineyard. The owner hired day laborers at different times throughout the day. Some were hired in the morning, some at lunch, and…
Nate HoldridgeMay 4, 2017
