October 22, 2017 Jeff Struecker Sermon Notes At the beginning of this sermon series, we were talking about all human relationships and how relationships between two people can be a struggle, and those struggles are generally heart problems, not relationship problems. Then, we talked about marriage. If we were to go back to the sermon […]
Sex, Masterbation, Pornography, and Romance: What Does the Bible Say?
During the You Ask, We Answer sermon series, we had several questions submitted about sex, masterbation, pornography, and romance. We attempted to answer many of them from the stage during the Q&A panel on sex, but we still had several questions. The pastors gathered with the list of remaining questions and provided honest answers to the remaining […]
Skydiving with Jesus
It doesn’t take a lot of courage to skydive from an airplane…it just takes one step. The step between leaving the airplane and leaping into the clear blue sky is the essential step to skydiving. You’ve got to be a little bit crazy to skydive in the first place, but jumping from a moving airplane […]
You Ask. We Answer – How Should the Church Respond to Homosexuality?
October 15, 2017 Pastor Jeff Struecker Sermon Notes We are going to talk about homosexuality to two groups of people today. The first group are folks in this room who claim the name of Jesus and who would say, “Hey, I’m not personally struggling with this issue.” And if that’s you, most of this sermon […]
Getting clean BEFORE you get in the shower
I want you to imagine that you are a little boy playing in the woods behind your house. You’ve spent the entire day looking underneath stones and logs for caterpillars-because that’s what little boys do. You imagine that you are a giant on a foreign planet when you crash through the bushes and brush. You […]
You Ask. We Answer. – Timeless Passion
October 8, 2017 Pastor Jeff Struecker Sermon Notes In the next two weeks, we’ll wrap this sermon series up. Next week, here’s where we’re going. We’re going to talk honestly, from the Bible, about homosexuality. – What does the Bible teach about homosexuality, and how should Jesus’ church respond to homosexuals? The following week, the […]
You Ask. We Answer. – Available for Each Other
October 1, 2017 Pastor Jeff Struecker Sermon Notes Today, we’re going to deal with the struggles that some couples will have in marriage. In fact, in order to do some research for this sermon today, I started looking at counselors and the way that they deal with couples that are struggling at the midpoint […]
Can you become co-owner of another human being?
Did you know that you can’t buy or sell human body parts on ebay.com? (Sorry, but you’re out of luck if you were looking to make a few extra dollars for a family vacation by selling your kidney.) Here is the online auction site’s official policy on selling human body parts: “We don’t allow humans, […]
You Ask. We Answer. – Exclusive Sex
September 24, 2017 Pastor Jeff Struecker Sermon Notes Today, if you’re new to church, like today’s your first Sunday ever walking in the doors of the church, what we’re going to talk about for the next few moments is going to seem completely foreign to you. In fact, your whole life, you’ve been inundated with […]
You Ask. We Answer. – Romance
September 17, 2017 Pastor Jeff Struecker Sermon Notes This sermon series is built around giving you the opportunity to ask honest questions. As pastors on this staff, we view it as a gift when people think deeply about some of the things we’re talking about and when people have some questions and are looking for […]