Revival 2018 – Costly Grace
Sermon Series

In this unique time in history, when we have access to more information faster than ever before, knowledge and information are not necessarily making things better. While our world is in turmoil, Christianity has been marginalized and seems to have an ever decreasing impact on society. Why is this?

One reason is, in the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, we have cheapened God’s grace. Cheap grace is the enjoyment of all the benefits of God’s grace without the price of repentance, forgiveness, or submission to God. Bonhoeffer’s response would be “costly grace,” which is the grace that Jesus Christ offered in the Gospels – grace that demands a response.

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Elizabeth City EMC Podcast
Elizabeth City EMC Podcast
Top 5 List: Children's Responses to Parents When Confronted
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  • Top 5 List: Children's Responses to Parents When Confronted

    Top 5 List: Children's Responses to Parents When Confronted

    Apr 29, 2018 • 39:07

    Sermon #1 of the 2018 Spring Revival series, “Costly Grace.” Speaker: Ron Adkins Series: Revival 2018 – Costly Grace Scripture: Ephesians 4:12-16

  • Right Words, but Wrong Definition

    Right Words, but Wrong Definition

    Apr 29, 2018 • 51:28

    Sermon #2 of the 2018 Spring Revival series, “Costly Grace.” Speaker: Ron Adkins Series: Revival 2018 – Costly Grace Scripture: Mark 8:27-9:1

  • Societal Slaves

    Societal Slaves

    Apr 30, 2018 • 50:42

    Sermon #3 of the 2018 Spring Revival series, “Costly Grace.” Speaker: Ron Adkins Series: Revival 2018 – Costly Grace Scripture: Gal 5:1, 13-25

  • Seeing Jesus Through the Eyes of Bartimaeus

    Seeing Jesus Through the Eyes of Bartimaeus

    May 1, 2018 • 37:45

    Sermon #4 of the 2018 Spring Revival series, “Costly Grace.” Speaker: Ron Adkins Series: Revival 2018 – Costly Grace Scripture: Mark 10:46-52

  • A New Reality Hindered by Old Practices

    A New Reality Hindered by Old Practices

    May 2, 2018 • 50:30

    Sermon #5 of the 2018 Spring Revival series, “Costly Grace.” Speaker: Ron Adkins Series: Revival 2018 – Costly Grace Scripture: John 21:1-19

The Touchable Savior
Sermon Series

War. Disease. Destruction.

Heartache. Misery. Suffering.

Our world is broken. Anyone who has ever lived has suffered. Those who suffer inevitably ask the question: “Does God care?”

To answer this question, Jesus came. Forget the depictions of him as stoic or indifferent. He stepped fully into this world and he touched it, but he was also touched by it.

In “The Touchable Savior” we will follow Jesus throughout the second half of the Gospel of Mark on his journey to the cross. We’ll discover just how far he was willing to go – just how much he was willing to be touched – in order to bring healing and salvation to our broken world.

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Elizabeth City EMC Podcast
Elizabeth City EMC Podcast
The Two Touches
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  • The Two Touches

    The Two Touches

    Feb 18, 2018 • 31:19

    Two touches. Two rebukes. Two crosses. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Touchable Savior Scripture: Mark 8:22-26

  • Who's in the Club?

    Who's in the Club?

    Feb 24, 2018 • 32:30

    It’s not who you think, nor is it how you think. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Touchable Savior Scripture: Mark 10:13-16

  • So Close, Yet So Far Away

    So Close, Yet So Far Away

    Mar 4, 2018 • 36:40

    Is there anything you are unwilling to leave behind to follow Jesus? That thing has to go. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Touchable Savior Scripture: Mark 10:17-27

  • My Cup, Your Cup

    My Cup, Your Cup

    Mar 11, 2018 • 40:42

    The journey to the cross is designed to locate us through disorienting us. We are only ever able to find who we really are as we allow ourselves to get lost in him. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Touchable Savior Scripture: Mark 10:32-45

  • Touched by Extravagant Love

    Touched by Extravagant Love

    Mar 18, 2018 • 34:50

    A life of consequence is not one that is defined by mistakes, but by the grace of God in Christ. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Touchable Savior Scripture: Mark 14:1-9

  • The Kiss of Betrayal

    The Kiss of Betrayal

    Mar 25, 2018 • 35:32

    Jesus Christ – the Light of the world and revelation of God – the one in whom heaven and earth have forever come together – was pressed that you and I might have joy. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Touchable Savior Scripture: Mark 14:43-52

  • Touching Life

    Touching Life

    Apr 1, 2018 • 34:49

    What compels someone to leave family and home and travel to a foreign land to faithfully preach a message that gets you killed…unless it was true? Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Touchable Savior Scripture: John 20:24-29

  • The Last Word

    The Last Word

    Apr 1, 2018 • 21:51

    2018 Easter Sunrise service. Speaker: Aaron Meservey Series: The Touchable Savior Scripture: I Corinthians 15:53-58

The Untouchables
Sermon Series

A leper. A cripple. A sinner. A man possessed by devils. A bleeding woman. A dead girl. All persons whose paths crossed Jesus. All broken. All dirty. By the standards of ordinary people, all untouchable.

But Jesus is no ordinary person.

The Son of God came into the world to touch it. To transform it. To make all things new. He wasn’t disgusted by our “stuff.” He didn’t avoid it, instead he touched it and made it clean.

This collection of sermons from the gospel of Mark are about those who needed a touch the most – those who were avoided, were reviled, who were written off by the world. But Jesus reached out to them and changed their lives forever, something he’s still in the business of doing today.

“Jesus reached out and touched him.” (Mark 1:41)

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Elizabeth City EMC Podcast
Elizabeth City EMC Podcast
A Scandalous Touch
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  • A Scandalous Touch

    A Scandalous Touch

    Jan 7, 2018 • 38:40

    The Son of God came into the world to touch it. To transform it. To make all things new. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Untouchables Scripture: Mark 1:40-45

  • Standing Room Only

    Standing Room Only

    Jan 14, 2018 • 34:52

    An Inaccessible Savior The Needs of the Needy Speaker: Aaron Meservey Series: The Untouchables Scripture: Mark 2:1-12

  • Following This Savior

    Following This Savior

    Jan 21, 2018 • 42:11

    The invitation to follow The dangers of following The benefits that follow Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Untouchables Scripture: Mark 2:13-17 Audio Player

  • No Matter How Dirty

    No Matter How Dirty

    Jan 28, 2018 • 44:13

    Jesus meets us where we are Jesus doesn’t leave us like we were Jesus sends us where we need to be Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Untouchables Scripture: Mark 5:1-20

  • The Only Real Option

    The Only Real Option

    Feb 4, 2018 • 33:37

    The exhaustion of all options The bridge between despair and hope The lavish gift of life Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Untouchables Scripture: Mark 5:21-43

  • Opened to All of Him

    Opened to All of Him

    Feb 11, 2018 • 32:50

    The uniqueness of His touch The sufficiency of His touch The freedom of His touch Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Untouchables Scripture: Mark 7:31-37

Expecting Christmas
Sermon Series

There’s something special about the season of Advent. It’s a season of preparation, a season of waiting. It’s the time of the year where we begin to prepare ourselves to celebrate the coming of the Lord. It’s a season that is pregnant with promise. Promise for hope. Promise for peace. For love and for joy. For God to make things new once more. And so we wait.

The Bible encourages us to “wait upon the Lord.” This is a special kind of waiting. It means “waiting with hope,” not “wait and see what happens.” It is not just the passing of time. It is anticipation. We have God’s promises to anticipate. He cares for us. His plans are good, not evil, toward us. We can trust Him. He keeps His promises.

Christmas declares “God always keeps his promises.” In His way, in His time. He asks us to wait…with hope. He promises to return. He promises to come into our heart. He promises us pleasant surprises.

“You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be very great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David. And he will reign over Israel forever; his Kingdom will never end!” (Luke 1:31-33)

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Elizabeth City EMC Podcast
Elizabeth City EMC Podcast
Waiting
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  • Waiting

    Waiting

    Dec 3, 2017 • 36:08

    A people who wait The God who comes Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Expecting Christmas Scripture: Luke 1

  • Searching

    Searching

    Dec 10, 2017 • 21:47

    Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Expecting Christmas Scripture: Luke 2:8-20

  • Seeing

    Seeing

    Dec 17, 2017 • 35:22

    Just as he promised The face of salvation A light to the nations Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Expecting Christmas Scripture: Luke 2:25-32

  • "Peace, Peace" When There Is No Peace

    "Peace, Peace" When There Is No Peace

    Dec 24, 2017 • 30:34

    Speaker: Aaron Meservey Series: Expecting Christmas Scripture: Matt 2:1-12,16

Connecting
Sermon Series

The final command of Jesus to those who desire to follow him was to go. To the ends of the earth. To be his witnesses. Simple, right?

Sometimes the simplest things can be the hardest things to do.

As Christ’s witnesses, empowered by the Spirit, we are to follow the example of our Lord and go. He hasn’t asked for our good intentions. He has asked for our whole lives, surrendered to him and his purposes, and to go and be his people for his sake in the world.

Our work is a continuation of his work. To go and to share all possible truth with all possible people in all possible ways. Connecting the whole gospel to the whole world with our whole strength.

“And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere.” (Acts 1:8)

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Elizabeth City EMC Podcast
Elizabeth City EMC Podcast
The Lord Who Connects
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  • The Lord Who Connects

    The Lord Who Connects

    Nov 5, 2017 • 24:20

    Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Connecting Scripture: Acts 1:1

  • Thoroughly Connected

    Thoroughly Connected

    Nov 12, 2017 • 27:45

    The apostle was: Thorough in his teaching Thorough in his coverage Thorough in his methods Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Connecting Scripture: Acts 20:18-38

  • Obstacles to Connecting

    Obstacles to Connecting

    Nov 19, 2017 • 41:12

    Loss of urgency Absence of intentionality Misplaced religiosity Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Connecting Scripture:  Acts 17:16-34

  • The Lord of Connection

    The Lord of Connection

    Nov 26, 2017 • 48:12

    Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Connecting Scripture: Luke 10: 1-20

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