Season Advent

Mighty God

Wednesday December 11, 2024 Text: Isaiah 9:1-2,6-7 Speaker: Pastor Andrew Schaller Festival: Advent Passages: Isaiah 9:1-2,6-7

God Prepares Your Heart

Sunday December 8, 2024 Text: Isaiah 40:1-11 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Advent Passages: Isaiah 40:1-11

On the south side of county road AW about halfway between here and Waupun, there is a house covered in Christmas lights. This house really stands out. There is a house that is ready for Christmas. If we have the time and inclination we could prepare our houses similarly for Christmas, what we cannot do

Prince of Peace

Wednesday December 4, 2024 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Advent Passages: Isaiah 9:1-2,6-7

He Comes To Bring Righteousness

Sunday December 1, 2024 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Advent Passages: Jeremiah 33:14-16

Our theme for our Wednesday Advent services this year is “He Shall Be Called.” We are going to go through some of the names of Jesus particularly the ones from Isaiah 9:6. Our text today gives us two other names for Jesus, the coming one and our righteousness. Jeremiah tells us in our text this

The Promise Is Given

Sunday December 24, 2023 Text: Luke 1:26-38 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Advent Passages: Luke 1:26-38

Luke 1:26-30   26 Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,  27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.  28 And having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice,

The Rest of Peace

Wednesday December 20, 2023 Text: Isaiah 9:1-7 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Advent Passages: Isaiah 9:1-7

Let’s start this evening by agreeing that I am right. Think of all the time we could save at meetings if I just made all the decisions. Think how peaceful everything would be if everyone just agreed with me all the time. The only problem is that I’m not always right and I don’t always

THE PREACHER OF THE COVENANT

Sunday December 17, 2023 Text: Isaiah 61:1-3 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Advent Passages: Isaiah 61:1-3

Our kids usually learn at a young age how to identify Jesus in any given picture. Even if the physical depiction of Jesus is different from the classic European with a beard and long hair, still there are certain clues they pick up on. Jesus is the one holding the lamb. Jesus is the one

The Arms of Peace

Thursday December 14, 2023 Text: Ephesians 2:12-18 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Advent Passages: Ephesians 2:12-18

Last week we saw how two lines come together in the point of the star. This reminds us how God came to us in the person of Jesus Christ, man and God made one, to bring us peace. Tonight, our text moves us down to the arms of the star. These arms can be seen

THE DOUBLE MERCY WHICH ENDURES

Sunday December 10, 2023 Text: Isaiah 40:1-11 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Advent Passages: Isaiah 40:1-11

Verses 1-2 “Comfort, yes, comfort My people!” Says your God.  2 “Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, That her warfare is ended, That her iniquity is pardoned; For she has received from the LORD’S hand Double for all her sins.” God speaks comfort or rather tenderness to his people. God knows how

The Point of Peace

Wednesday December 6, 2023 Text: Matthew 2:1-12 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Advent Passages: Matthew 2:1-12

You need two lines to make a point of a star. Each line by itself would continue forever. Here at the point of a star the two lines come together. We need earthly things to live. We need food and clothing. We need money and friends and family. We need to know that people care