Sermon by: Pastor Matt Spradlin

Luke 1:30-38

​When Gabriel announced to Mary she was to be the mother of the Son of God, Mary had mixed emotions.  She felt agony and ecstasy.  She felt privileged and perplexed.  She didn't understand all of God's plan, but her response was, “I am God’s servant.”  She had this awesome sense of God’s purpose in her life and she surrendered herself to that purpose.  As a mother, God has given you a great calling, mission, and purpose.

Sermon by: Pastor Matt Spradlin

1 Corinthians 3:5-17

Every architect knows a great building must have a great foundation.  A building is only as strong as its foundation.  Paul says Christ is our foundation.  The question is not what do I want, the question is what does God want?  What God is doing in your life and in His church transcends the temporal.  He is building for eternity.

Sermon by: Pastor Matt Spradlin

1 Corinthians 2:6-3:4

Paul’s definition of a spiritual person is not someone who meditates and lives a good life.  A spiritual person is someone who has a relationship with God through Jesus.  Someone whose sins have been forgiven and has experienced the grace of God. The Spirit of God lives in the life of a believer and confirms in your heart the Word of God is true and impresses God’s Word on your heart. 

Sermon By: Pastor Matt Spradlin

1 Corinthians 2:1-5

​The focus of the Bible is Jesus, and the whole Bible points to Jesus.  The message of the church is Jesus Christ and Him crucified.  If we put Christ in the center, like centrifugal force, He pulls everything to Him.  Our job is to proclaim Christ and Him crucified.  That is the only message that can save souls and transform lives.

Sermon by: Stephen Downes

Colossians 2:6-7

The Gospel, without it there is no salvation, no hope, no growth. To add to it or step away from it,  is to shipwreck your faith. But, if you continue in it, you will experience all that God is for you in Jesus, you will experience all the promises of God, all the blessing of salvation, and all the benefits of the Gospel. But you must continue in what you have received.  

Sermon By: Pastor Matt Spradlin

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

​The resurrection of Jesus is the hinge point of history.  If it is true, the gospel is true.  If it is false, the gospel is false.  Everything hinges and depends upon it because the resurrection was the vindication by God that our sin was paid in full on the cross.

Sermon by: Pastor Matt Spradlin

​1 Corinthians 1:26-31

Humanity has decided we are smarter than the One who is all knowing, stronger than the One who is all powerful, more important than the One who created all things.  Paul declares God has a much different definition of wisdom and power than the world has.  The wisdom of God turns the wisdom of world upside down.  The power of the cross turns the power of the world upside down.  Paul then points us to our own salvation as evidence God does not think and act the way the world thinks and acts.

Sermon by: Pastor Matt Spradlin

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

The cross of Christ is the heart of the gospel and the central theme of Christianity.  The cross is the supreme display of God’s love, wisdom, and power.  The only message that can give man the power to overcome sin, Satan, and self is the message of Christ crucified.  All the combined wisdom of man and all the combined power of man cannot save one soul, but the cross of Christ can forgive and eliminate sin once and for all.

Sermon By: Pastor Matt Spradlin

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

​We don’t have to agree on everything, but we do have to have a common commitment to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.  If you can get on the same page about Jesus, then you can have Christian unity.  Whenever we put anything but Jesus at the center, we get in trouble.  When we put Jesus at center, and proclaim His Word, and do His will- the result is unity.

Sermon By: Pastor Matt Spradlin

​​1 Corinthians 1:1-9

​Paul says we are enriched in everything by Christ.  The Greek word for enriched is plutocrat.  The idea is not that we are like spiritual millionaires, more like spiritual billionaires.  The idea is we have an overflowing and over-abundance of riches in Christ.  And what are we rich in?  Paul says grace.  When you become a believer in Jesus, even if you are materially poor, you become spiritually rich in grace.