Jordan Rimmer Sermons

Here I talk about salt and light and how we should shine and spread Jesus-seasoning in this dark and bitter world.

Here I tackle the beatitudes.

Here is an introduction to the Sermon on the Mount.

In this sermon I finish the series on Salvation History. I take a look at what the Gospel means in light of this grand story. I owe a lot to the work of Matthew Bates in his books Salvation by Allegiance Alone and Gospel Allegiance. Both helped me think through what the Gospel is and what faith really means.

I take a look at how the story of the Bible ends by looking at 6 symbols. Each of these represents expectations of the First Testament that Jesus fulfills yet also leaves undone. I then look at how Revelation shows the fulfillment of those expectations. We live in the "now and not yet" of this conclusion, and that should give us hope. 

Here we look at the rest of the New Testament and the movement of the Gospel from Jerusalem, through Judea, Samaria, and to the end of the world. We are part of that movement today. 

Here I slow down the pace of this sweeping salvation history and look at the personal stories of Thomas and Peter after the resurrection. 

This sermon for Easter 2020 looks at the death and resurrection of Jesus and why it is the crux of salvation history.

Here we look at the life of Jesus, what he was about, and what led to the cross.

We are moving through the whole story of the Bible--salvation history. Here I take a look at the story of the exile and where it fits in the Bible. I didn't know when I laid out this series the way the coronavirus would be impacting our world. But God did. As I studied the exile, I realized that we feel in some ways that we are in exile.

Here we look at the monarchy and what the kings mean for how we view Jesus.

This sermon was preached for video on the first week of a cancellation of church due to the Coronavirus. I reflect on the situation and ask where our hope really comes from.

When we were young, we read about the judges as heroes. As adults, these stories seem more fitting for an HBO series than a Sunday School lesson. What is the meaning of this dark and violent book, especially in the grand narrative of salvation history?

Here is how Moses, the Exodus, and the Wilderness fit into the large story of the Bible and point to Jesus.

In part 2 of this series, I look at Abraham and his descendants. I consider Abraham's faithful responses to God's leading as well as God's promises of blessing.

I am kicking off a sermon series that will go 10 weeks (with a few gaps) telling the large story of the Bible through some of the epochs of the story. Here, I develop the problem of sin and how bad it is, so that we look through the rest of the Bible at how God will fix this problem. In this sermon, I flowed right into communion. Each person came forward, saw themselves in several mirrors with words of the fall written over them (unloveable, worthless, sinner, ugly, broken...). Then they took communion and came to another set of mirrors with other words (holy, forgiven, loved, valuable, precious...).  

In this sermon, I talk about what it means to walk in the Spirit. If you are not producing fruit, then there is something blocking and/or you are not walking.  I reflect on my experience with the Holy Spirit, then I talk about spiritual gifts.

This sermon is ten facts about the Holy Spirit. I used THIS HANDOUT.