August 25, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker Colossians 2:14-15 “Both God’s love and God’s wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax — at the cross. Do you wish to see God’s love? Look a…

August 18, 2024 Associate Pastor Justin Brunenkant Colossians 2:20-23 Matthew 19:14 2 Corinthians 5:17 Matthew 5:17 (NKJV)By Summit Ridge Community Church

August 11, 2024 Associate Pastor Eric Burch Ephesians 4:4-6 NET We have been Freed from the Law Colossians 2:16 Mark 7:18-19 Romans 7:4-6 We are a Priesthood in Christ Colossians 2:17 1 Peter 2:9-10 Romans 10:1-3 So, Serve in All Humility Colossians 2:18 Proverbs 16:18-19 Colossians 3:16 John 3:11-12 For Your Sake and the Sake of the Body Colossian…

August 4, 2024 Associate Pastor Eric Burch As You Received, So Live Colossians 2:6-7 Colossians 2:5 Ephesians 4:4-6 Ephesians 4:13-14 Guard Your Mind and Heart Colossians 2:8 Romans 12:2 Proverbs 3:5-6 Accept the Fullness of Christ Colossians 2:9-10 Colossians 1:27-28 Enjoy the Fellowship of Christ Colossians 2:11-12 John 15:4-5 Celebrate Your Free…

July 28, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker "Ministry is giving when you feel like keeping, praying for others when you need to be prayed for, feeding others when your own soul is hungry, living truth before people even when you can't see results, hurting with other people even when your own hurt can't be spoken, keeping your word even when it is not c…

July 21, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker “We cherry-pick our favorite traits and words of Christ and run with them - amplifying some parts while silencing others - to suit our personal visions and preferences. In doing this, rather than the true and the whole, we create caricatures and distortions of His character - false Christs made in our own ima…

July 14, 2021 Associate Pastor Louise Waller What is worldly wisdom? Wisdom: The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil Genesis 3:4-7 We Are Fools Wisdom is nonsense to those who don’t believe Isaiah 55:8-9 1 Corinthians 1:18 Matthew 11:25 What is Godly Wisdom? Colossians 1:9-14 James 3:17 How do we get God’s wisdom? Luke 11:11-13 Proverbs 9:10 Pro…

July 7, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker “The good news is that Christ frees us from the need to obnoxiously focus on our goodness, our commitment, and our correctness. Religious has made us obsessive almost beyond endurance. Jesus invited us to a dance...and we've turned in into a march of soldiers, always checking to see if we're doing it right and…

June 30, 2024 Associate Pastor Eric Burch (Audio issues during the first two minutes or so.) Matthew 4:8-11 “One of the greatest ironies of the history of Christianity is that its leaders constantly give in to the temptation of power- political power, military power, economic power, or moral or spiritual power – even though they continued to speak …

June 23, 2024 Associate Pastor Justin Brunenkant Matthew 4:5-7Psalms 91:11-12Deuteronomy 6:16Galations 6:7 (NKJV)By Summit Ridge Community Church

June 16, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker Not all testing is bad Matthew 4:1-4Deuteronomy 8:2-3 Testing reveals who you really are Testing prepares you for your life as a Christ-follower. “We live in a culture that has replaced soul with self. This reduction turns people into either problems or consumers. Insofar as we acquiesce in that replacement, …

June 9, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker James 5:19-20Isaiah 53:6 3 Causes of Wandering: 1) Believing that following Jesus is easy Matthew 7:13-14 "Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more. Charles Spurgeon: You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A…

June 2, 2024 Associate Pastor Eric Burch James 1:2-4 NASB Go to God First James 5:13 “James means that there is no time in which God does not invite us to Himself.” -John Calvin “Our whole life should be so angled towards God that whatever strikes us, whether sorrow or joy, should be deflected upwards at once into His presence.” -Alec Motyer Don’t …

May 26, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker James 5:12 "Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known." -John Knox Matthew 5:34-37 Leviticus 19:11-12 (NET)By Summit Ridge Community Church

May 19, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker Psalm 133:1Romans 12:18 START waitingJames 5:7-8James 1:2-4 "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."-Leo Tolstoy "Pampered bodies grow sluggish through sloth; not work but movement and their own weight exhausts them. Prosperity unbruised cannot endure a single blow, but a man who has been at a c…

May 12, 2024 Associate Pastor Louise Waller James 5:1-6 Why are riches dangerous? The World’s Lie: Money = Power = Safety YOU CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS Matthew 6:33 1 Timothy 6:17-19 Acts 4: 32-35 Seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness Luke 12:34 Malachi 3:10 (NIV)By Summit Ridge Community Church

May 5, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker "Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast." -Jane Austen "The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection…