Ordinary Church :: Holy

Acts 4:32-5:11
By James Torrey 
 
The newly birthed church in Acts is not without its problems - persecution from some outside the church and self-promotion by some inside the church. Ananias and Sapphira see an opportunity to look like religious rock stars without all the sacrifice that many in the church were embracing. They lie to church leaders and to God and drop dead in a heartbeat. Find out in this sermon what happens, why it happens, and what it might teach our church in the 21st century.

Ordinary Church :: Holy

Ordinary Church :: Problem

Acts 6:1-7 
By Robert Krumrey 
 
The church of Acts is growing and experiencing growing pains. Certain widows are being overlooked in the church food distribution and it looks like some kind of preferential treatment toward widows who are culturally Jewish. In this sermon we look at one of the first congregational problems faced by church leadership, how the problem was solved, and what the results were after the fact.

Ordinary Church :: Problem

Ordinary Church :: Eat

Acts 10:1-33
By Christian Hogan
 
The people of God are branching out from Jerusalem to Judea to Samaria to who knows where else. It’s an exciting time, but not without a few growing pains. Jewish laws about food and sabbath had kept God’s people set apart from all others for millenia. Now a people that once showed God’s glory and goodness with a come and see approach were now being told to go and tell. Find out more in this sermon how the gospel frees God’s people to be both separate and sent.

Ordinary Church :: Eat

Ordinary Church :: Providence

Acts 12:1-25
By James Torrey
 
Bad things happen to the church and they happen at the hands of those who are supposed to be protecting the people under their authority. While Luke (the writer of Acts) pulls no punches describing the terror of state-sponsored persecution, he also reveals to the reader that God’s power is unrivaled. Find out more in this sermon about what Christians call “providence” and how we see this in the unfolding story of God’s people in Acts and today.

Ordinary Church :: Providence

Genesis of Everything :: Reveal

Genesis 1:1
By Robert Krumrey
 
Humans are meaning makers and they are consistently on the hunt for their purpose in life. Who are we and what on earth are we here for? The book of Genesis has some profound answers that take us all the way before the creation of the universe, where a self-existent God came up with everything including us. Find out more about this God and who he has made us to be in this sermon (and ongoing sermon series) from Genesis.

Genesis of Everything :: Reveal

Genesis of Everything :: Glory

Genesis 1:26-31
By Robert Krumrey
 
God in his greatness and goodness participates in a six-day symphonic creation that crescendos in a glorious finale - the creation of human beings. These glorious creations are made to bear the image of God and do so in an abundance of ways. Find out in this sermon about the dignity and dominion given to every human being on the planet.

Genesis of Everything :: Glory

Genesis of Everything :: Rest

Genesis 2:1-3
By Robert Krumrey
 
God finishes his very good cosmos including his co-regents human beings and rests. Not because he is tired but because he wants to communicate some very profound truths about the universe, his relationship with human beings, and how we are to go about stewarding our time. Find out more in this sermon on the 7th day of creation when God (along with us) rest from our  work.

Genesis of Everything :: Rest

Genesis 1&2 give us a beautiful cosmos perfectly ordered in every way. The relationships between humans and God, humans and humans, humans and themselves, even humans and the earth are all working in concert and contributing to the kind of thriving we all long for. The question is, “What happened?”. Genesis 3 tells us what indeed did happen to the created cosmos and the rest of the Bible tells us how God is putting all back together again. Find out more in this sermon about the creation and fall of the cosmos.

Genesis of Everything :: Tree

Genesis of Everything :: Story

Genesis 4:1-26
By Robert Krumrey
 
We leave Genesis chapter 3 wondering how bad “the fall” of humanity is really going to be. At first, things seem to be going according to plan - humans are procreating and administrating. Crops are being planted; herds are being tended. People are even interacting with God. That is, until sin rears its ugly head and goes on a murderous rampage to kill every human who ever lives. Find out more in this sermon about the story of sin and the one who sovereignly saves us from it.

Genesis of Everything :: Story

Genesis of Everything :: See | Genesis 16
By Noah Galloso

Sarai and Abram decide to take things into their own hands to fulfill God's covenant with them. They involve their servant Hagar, and the end result is humans in suffering from their sin. We find here though how God sees his people in their sin and suffering and makes covenant with them, covenant of redemption and restoration. Find out more about this covenant making and covenant keeping God and the promises he assures us sinners and sufferers.

Genesis of Everything :: See

Genesis of Everything :: Covenant | Genesis 17
By Robert Krumrey
 
Abram and Sarai have failed miserably at living by faith in Genesis 16 and God shows back up in chapter 17 to have a word with them. What does he do? Reaffirms his covenant relationship, gives them new names, and a sign for the covenant he’d made with them over two decades before. Find out in this sermon about how God relates to human beings and what he expects from them in return.

Genesis of Everything :: Covenant

Genesis of Everything :: Laugh | Genesis 18:21
By Robert Krumrey
 
Abraham and Sarah have been carrying around a promise from God for a quarter century and God has done nothing except keep promising that he is going to bring a baby out of a dead womb. It seems so ridiculous to these stumbling saints that they both give God a cynical Ha! Find out in this sermon how God changes these snickering cynical hearts into hearts overflowing with the laughter of true joy.

Genesis of Everything :: Laugh

Advent :: Hope | Luke 1:1-25
By Christian Hogan

Advent Sunday 3 :: Hope

Devoted :: Word and Prayer
John 15:1-8
By Robert Krumrey
 
What is the goal of all Christian spiritual practices? In a word - abide. Find out in this sermon what it means to abide in Jesus and how daily spiritual practices are used by God to accomplish this amazing life-giving reality.

Devoted :: Word and Prayer

The Saints :: Grace
Ephesians 2:1-10
By Robert Krumrey
 
Saints were not always saints. Our apprehension and appreciation of what God has done in Christ to make us into saints is helped in this scriptural text with a trip down memory lane. What, or better said, Who were we before we were saints and what did God do to get us here? Find out in this sermon from Ephesians chapter 2.

The Saints :: Grace

The Saints :: Unified
Ephesians 2:11-22
By Robert Krumrey
 
God’s plan of making sinners into saints is not just individual but also communal. He is taking a divided (even hostile) humanity and making them into a united (actively loving) humanity. How is this possible and how can I get in on this? Find out in this sermon from the book of Ephesians.

The Saints :: Unified

The Saints :: Miracle
Ephesians 3:1-13
By Robert Krumrey
 
The church is more than songs and sermons and an occasional potluck. God is doing something in and through the church that is a miracle. What is this miracle you ask? He is taking disunified humans and using the “unsearchable riches of Christ” to make them one. Find out more about how this happens and what it means for us, a local church of Saints in ATX.

The Saints :: Miracle

Working Out Our Salvation
Philippians 2:12-13
By James Torrey

Why would the Apostle Paul instruct us in Phil 2:12 to “work out our own salvation” and to do so “in fear and trembling”? Hear how God can use some of our most moronic moments to help us understand His word.

Working Out Our Salvation

How to judge (and not judge) others
Matthew 7:1-6
By Rob Jenner

Christians today are often criticized for being judgemental. While in some ways we are guilty as charged, in other ways we are called to lovingly call out sin and point people to our Savior. How do we strike this balanced approach? In this sermon from Matthew 7, Jesus equips us for how to judge (and not judge) our fellow brothers and sisters in the church.

How to Judge (and not Judge) Others

The Saints:: King (Palm Sunday)
Ephesians 4:1-16
By Robert Krumrey

It’s Palm Sunday and we remember the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem - the beginning of what Christians call Holy Week. How could Jesus go from being hailed as the messianic King on Sunday to hanging on a Roman cross on Friday? Part of the reason is a misunderstanding of Jesus’ kingship. The crowd that day (and us) tend to  think way too small when it comes to King Jesus. Find out more in this sermon about the cosmic scale of Jesus’ kingdom, how it was inaugurated, and how it’s being expressed through the local church of today.

The Saints:: King (Palm Sunday)

The Story of Hope (Easter Sunday)
Mark 15:37-16:8
By Robert Krumrey

Everyone has two plotlines that are unfolding in their lives. Plotline 1 is whatever one tells themselves to get out of bed in the morning - a story of a positive future outcome (more money, a family, prestige, political utopia, a.k.a. “hope”. Plotline 2 is that we are all heading to our grave. Plotline 1 usually serves as a distraction from Plotline 2, but regardless they are on a collision course. Then comes Jesus. His plotline 2 (grave) gives way to a post-mortem plotline (resurrection) that gives us an indestructible story of hope for this life and the life to come. Find out more in this sermon on the story of resurrection hope.

The Story of Hope (Easter Sunday)

Saints of ATX :: New Self
Ephesians 4:17-32
By Noah Galloso

Through Jesus, we have been transformed into a new creation. Now we must learn how to live in this new self made whole by the truth of God.

The Saints :: New Self

The Saints in ATX :: Walk
Ephesians 4:1-21
By Robert Krumrey

There seems to be a massive rift between Christians that want to emphasize love and those who want to emphasize morality. The rift is so prevalent that we can begin to think they are mutually exclusive. This week's passage shows us how to wisely walk the tightrope of walking in love while also walking in holiness.

The Saints in ATX :: Walk

The Saints in ATX :: Code
Ephesians 5:22-6:9
By Robert Krumrey

Transformed Christians living in transformed community don’t just hang out in church. They go out into the world and live ordinary lives in extraordinary ways. Find out in this sermon from Paul’s “household code” in the book of Ephesians how we are to live in the world as wives, husbands, children, parents, employees, and bosses.

The Saints in ATX :: Code

The Saints in ATX :: Strong
Ephesians 6:10
By Robert Krumrey

Are Christians supposed to be weak OR strong? Short answer - STRONG. It’s a unique kind of strength that is strong “in the Lord” and “in the might of his power”. Find out in this sermon how Christians are called to be gospel strong.

The Saints in ATX :: Strong

The Saints in ATX :: Stand
Ephesians 6:10-20
By Robert Krumrey

Paul exhorts Christians to be strong in the Lord partly because there is a dangerous enemy afoot. That enemy is NOT other people, but who is it and how do we fight him? Find out in this final sermon from the book of Ephesians.

The Saints in ATX :: Stand

Remember the Rescue :: Desperate
Exodus 1
By Robert Krumrey

Every dramatic rescue is preceded by desperation. Being rescued implies that there is a threat that one needs rescuing from. The book of Exodus opens with a deadly threat to an entire people group and that people belong to God. Find out more in this sermon about God’s activity in the midst of extreme suffering.

Remember the Rescue :: Desperate

Remember the Rescue :: Deliverer
Exodus 2
By Robert Krumrey

Israel is going to be rescued by a deliverer. That deliverer is God and he’s going to accomplish his deliverance through a human being named Moses who himself must first be delivered by God. Find out how God delivers Moses (and us) and sets us on a path to participation in his unfolding plan for accomplishing his rescue.

Remember the Rescue :: Deliverer

Remember the Rescue :: Call
Exodus 3
By Cristian Quiroga

God gets things done. He can do so directly or do so through human beings. He actually has a track record of co-laboring with human beings from Adam in the garden to the call to make disciples in the New Testament church. In this sermon we see how God calls his servant Moses and Moses’ various responses to that call. Find out how very famous Scripture text informs your own call to being on mission with the missionary God.

Remember the Rescue :: Call

Remember the Rescue :: Equip
Exodus 4
By Cristian Quiroga

God calls (Exodus 3) and his calls are to impossible (think supernatural) tasks. This might seem a bit unfair since we are natural. Thankfully God also equips and does so with supernatural equipment. Moses feels the weight of an impossible call and God delivers the goods which sets the course for an unbelievable journey of faith. Find out more about Moses’ call and equipping and how God works this out in our own lives as well.

Remember the Rescue :: Equip

Remember the Rescue :: Suffer
Exodus 5
By Robert Krumrey

Moses finally gets to Egypt and everything is going well. God’s people are responsive to Moses’ leadership and already worshiping the one true God. That is, until Pharoah decides to double the workload as punishment for asking for a three day desert pass. The response to this uptick in suffering is anything but mature and the people immediately reject their leaders and their God. Find out in this sermon what suffering reveals in all of us and how it can be used to grow our walk with God.

Remember the Rescue :: Suffer

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