The Door to Life

“You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate.” (Matthew 7:13, NLT)

The Door to Life is a sermon series that explores stories in the Bible that feature doors that point to Jesus. He is the narrow gate which leads to life that never ends.

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The Door to Life
The Door to Life
The Ark Door
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  • The Ark Door

    The Ark Door

    Apr 16, 2023 • 47:02

    The message of hope in the story of Noah is that even in the fury of God’s wrath through the raging waters of the flood, one can see the depths of his divine mercy and compassion. In the same way, and to an even greater degree, in the cross of…

  • The Scandalous Door

    The Scandalous Door

    Apr 23, 2023 • 43:34

    The universal problem of sinful man is that he makes himself his own standard of right and wrong, seeks to indulge in and satisfy whatever impulses or cravings he has, and will use others in order to satisfy or save his own skin. Jesus Christ is the solution to that…

  • The Passover Door

    The Passover Door

    Apr 30, 2023 • 35:24

    The blood of the lamb, sacrificially poured out for another, was the life of Israel. All the blood spilled for generations pointed to the sacrifice of the Lamb of God, whose life is released for all who have faith in him. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Door to Life Scripture: Exodus…

  • Go Right In

    Go Right In

    May 7, 2023 • 32:06

    Speaker: Karl Bowden Series: The Door to Life Scripture: Hebrews 10:19-22

  • The Narrow Door

    The Narrow Door

    May 14, 2023 • 42:01

    The narrow road and gate that leads to life demand we renounce all dependance upon anything of this world and cling only to Jesus. He is not merely the gatekeeper; he is the gate itself. He is the only way to access the Kingdom of God with all of its…

The Church in Sin City

In ancient Greece, Corinth was a major seaport city that became both prosperous and licentious. It was a center of wealth, entertainment, military power, and cult religion, but also intellectual pride and moral laxity, prompting the phrase “living like a Corinthian” to become an insult cast upon vagrants, drunkards, and sexual deviants.

This was the culture into which the gospel of Jesus Christ penetrated through the preaching ministry of the Apostle Paul in the middle of the 1st century AD, but it’s not too hard to see the parallels to the culture in which American Christians find themselves today. The problems that plagued the Corinthian church continue to crop up in our own congregations. Snobbishness, factionalism, insensitivity to other believers, doctrinal looseness, and more all flourished in the Corinthian church, making the Apostle’s letter particularly relevant to contemporary times.

“The Church in Sin City” is a sermon series that looks at the variety of problems within the Corinthian church, as well as the solutions proffered by the Apostle Paul, with the goal of better understanding how to live as Christians in a corrupt society.

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The Church in Sin City
Who Are You Following?
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  • Who Are You Following?

    Who Are You Following?

    Feb 26, 2023 • 41:43

    Speaker: Karl Bowden Series: The Church in Sin City Scripture: I Corinthians 1:10-31

  • Sin in the Camp

    Sin in the Camp

    Mar 5, 2023 • 47:01

    What needs to happen at any church where sin is dismissed, swept under the rug, or even celebrated? It needs to repent, recover God’s own perspective, and go to whatever lengths necessary to become the community God has called it to be. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Church in Sin City…

  • His Body, His Choice

    His Body, His Choice

    Mar 12, 2023 • 48:21

    The church must stand firm on the biblical truth regarding human sexuality, speaking truth in love. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Church in Sin City Scripture: I Corinthians 6:12-20

  • Idols

    Idols

    Mar 19, 2023 • 40:50

    Speaker: Robert Jackson Series: The Church in Sin City Scripture: I Corinthians 10:14-22

  • Rules for Life Together

    Rules for Life Together

    Mar 26, 2023 • 53:37

    The attitude of Christ himself lies at the heart of true Christian freedom. It is an attitude that enables us to be so free from the self, so willingly surrendered to God, and so radically others-oriented that we will do all things for God’s glory and man’s salvation. Speaker: Sean…

  • Attitudes at the Supper Table

    Attitudes at the Supper Table

    Apr 2, 2023 • 43:53

    The Christian church envisioned by the Apostle Paul is one that shares deep, intimate, abiding union and fellowship with Christ and with one another, proclaiming the truths of the Gospel with integrity. Nowhere else is this better expressed than in the worship and fellowship at the Lord’s table. Speaker: Sean…

  • The Consequences of Resurrection

    The Consequences of Resurrection

    Apr 9, 2023 • 44:39

    What is the hope for a person bound in sin, lost in darkness, and powerless to do anything about it? What is the hope for a church rife with division, factions, and immorality? What is the hope for a broken world doomed for destruction, in desperate need of repair, and…

The Fake News

We live in an age of disinformation, a time when nothing can be trusted, when all information is to be treated with suspicion. It is an age marked by rumor, conjecture, opinion, and bias, a time of both conspiracy and theory. Christians have claimed for 2,000 years to know the truth, but what happens when the foundations of the faith entrusted to the church are being compromised from within? How is such a situation identified, and what are we to do in response?

Jude, the servant (and half brother) of Christ, is concerned with these very issues. Within the first generation of churches, peddlers of disinformation had wormed their way into positions of leadership among the people of God. These wolves in shepherd’s clothing claimed to offer the Good News, while offering something else altogether. Jude was not content to allow this to happen, and Christians today must heed his warnings.

The Fake News is a call for the church of today to contend for the faith entrusted to it, to stand guard and defend it, working to strengthen its faith while trusting in the keeping power of God. The greatest threat today is not persecution of the truth from without, but perversion of the truth from within.

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The Fake News
The Fake News
Contending for the Faith
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  • Contending for the Faith

    Contending for the Faith

    Jan 29, 2023 • 51:17

    We live in an age of disinformation. But there is one place that you can go to for Truth—a place that the world, and even many who call themselves Christians, will tell you cannot be trusted. It is the Word of God, for the people of God. Thanks be to…

  • Sound the Alarm!

    Sound the Alarm!

    Feb 5, 2023 • 52:51

    The greatest threat to the church today is not persecution of the faith from without, but perversion of the faith within. Only belief in the Christ of the Scriptures and perseverance in the truth of the good news of God has the power to save. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Fake…

  • The True Gospel

    The True Gospel

    Feb 12, 2023 • 45:38

    To turn from the Scriptures is to turn from God himself. Therefore, the place the Bible holds among the hierarchies of authority in your life has very real implications for your eternal destiny. Salvation itself rests upon the integrity of the gospel’s truth and its transforming impact upon your life.…

  • The Keeping Power of God

    The Keeping Power of God

    Feb 19, 2023 • 1:04:47

    We are living in hard times, but take heart: Jude’s letter may be marked by the presence of passion, but it is also marked by the absence of panic. God is still at work, in control, and He who is in you is greater than he who is in the…

Life Groups

“And all the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had.” (Acts 2:44, NLT)

Human beings were created for relationships. The Bible presents the church as God’s new, redeemed humanity, marked by relationships that give definition to who persons are in Christ. The life of the church has always been expressed through concrete, identifiable, local groups of believers who grow together in faith.

Life Groups is a sermon series exploring the need for and blessings of small group life within the local church. It is in the small group where Christians grow closer to God, closer to one another, and experience real life and real love together best. At EMC, they exist in order for believers to connect, to grow, and to serve. This sermon series will be exploring each of these purposes in turn.

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Life Groups
Life Groups
Connecting
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  • Connecting

    Connecting

    Jan 8, 2023 • 42:04

    Connecting has always been an essential component of life for the church of Jesus Christ, and to the author of Hebrews it is a matter of necessity and urgency. We must be very intentional to not give up meeting so that we can actively point one another to the all-sufficiency…

  • Growing

    Growing

    Jan 15, 2023 • 46:31

    The pathway to attaining unity in faith and maturity in holiness begins with deeper intimacy with the Body of Christ. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Life Groups Scripture: Ephesians 4:11-16

  • Serving

    Serving

    Jan 22, 2023 • 42:23

    Speaker: Richard Meservey Series: Life Groups Scripture: Isaiah 42

A Voice in the Wilderness

The story of Advent is the story of light and life coming to darkness and death. It is the story of a good, faithful God and his plans to rescue and redeem that which has been lost. After centuries of silence, he speaks. And when he does, what happens is amazing. His word does not come to the halls of power or to the appointed sovereign leaders of the world, but through a voice crying out in the wilderness.

This Advent season, join us as we hear the voice of an obscure, eccentric, outlier of a prophet, who prepared the way for the long anticipated coming of the Son of God, the fulfillment of every promise and the hope of all the nations. Marvel with us as we recall that the word of God landed on the stage of history in the middle of nowhere, and that it continues to come, even still, in the midst of our own wilderness experience.

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A Voice in the Wilderness
A Voice in the Wilderness
Heaven's Light Breaking In
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  • Heaven's Light Breaking In

    Heaven's Light Breaking In

    Nov 27, 2022 • 44:16

    Advent might begin the church’s liturgical year, but the coming of Christ is the climax of the great salvation of God that began in his own heart from before the beginning of time. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: A Voice in the Wilderness Scripture: Luke 1:67-79

  • The Word in the Wild

    The Word in the Wild

    Dec 4, 2022 • 34:12

    God still speaks through his word. It is not some secret truth, reserved for the elite or the privileged. No, it belongs to the public domain, applies to us all, and always comes at just the right time. Hear him speaking into your own wilderness. Not a message of condemnation,…

  • The Bad News Good News

    The Bad News Good News

    Dec 11, 2022 • 53:11

    God never bases his forgiveness on the good things that you and I do, but only ever on the completed and all-sufficient work of his Son. But if you have truly turned to him in repentance and faith, in total surrender, what should the fruit of that look like in…

  • The Mightier One is Coming

    The Mightier One is Coming

    Dec 18, 2022 • 40:14

    The people of God are called to live countercultural lifestyles that reflect the values of the Kingdom of God that are incomprehensible to the world. The Mightier One is Coming, and all people will either be immersed into the fullness of his life or the fullness of his wrath. Speaker:…