"discipleship" Tagged Sermons
The Call to Discipleship
In this powerful and deeply personal sermon, we explore the true meaning of discipleship through the lens of one man’s journey from gang life to following Jesus. Using Mark’s Gospel and insights from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship, this message challenges us to leave behind false securities, embrace intimacy with Christ, and take up our cross in a world bent on power and division. As we navigate a time of increasing polarization—even within the Church—this sermon calls us to…
Community of Misfits
In this sermon, Pastor T. C. teaches on the kind of community God is forming in Christ—a community of misfits. Jesus didn’t gather the best and brightest, he gathered the overlooked and underestimated. Jesus did this to demonstrate the nearness of God’s Kingdom to all, not just the religious elite. In fact, God’s election has always been this way. Israel was not chosen because it was great in size or particularly devout. No, God’s choosing is always for God’s glory,…
From Volk to Spoke
In this sermon, Pastor T. C. kicks off a new teaching series on Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Kingdom allegiance. In this election season, polarization and partisanship aren’t the primary problem—injustice is. What we can learn from the Scriptures, the life of Jesus, the of the early church, and the example of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is resistance to injustice and being a faithful witness to the Kingdom of God. This message highlight’s Bonhoeffer transformation from his time in Harlem in 1930. He went…
The Parable of the Two Builders
This week, as we continue in our series on the parables of Jesus, called “Ears to Hear,” Pastor Der Lor explores the Parable of the Two Builders from Luke’s account of what’s often called the “Sermon on the Plain.”
