Imago Dei Community Sermons

Rick continues the 'life of David' series with a look at David's fleeing from Saul in the wilderness. Rugged spirituality doesn't mean avoiding the wilderness or life's difficulties, rather, it teaches us to pray and trust in God in the midst of the wilderness.

Pastor Rick looks at Goliath as a representative of the obstacles in our lives that threaten to keep us from believing in Gods promises. He challenges us to see that our ability to overcome has nothing to do with our own strength, but has everything to do with the God who is working out his salvation in us.

Pastor Rick challenges us to see all of our history and the situations we find ourselves in as ways God is shaping our hearts, and not just random circumstances that are obstacles to our faith.

During this celebration of Easter Sunday we learn that the resurrection life of Christ meets us where we are and 'draws near to walk with us'. We also hear the stories of God's redemptive plan in the lives of those being baptized today.

Dr. Rick McKinley continues the 'Journey to the Cross' series with a look at Luke 9 and asks the question, "What does it mean to 'take up our cross'?" We should follow in the way of our Lord Jesus Christ and die to ourselves in order to allow the life of Christ to flow through us.

Rick explains to us that Christ's journey to the cross wasn't just about appeasing a moral law, but was primarily about reconciling and restoring a broken relationship between the Creator and His creation.

Rick continues the 'Journey to the Cross' series with an in depth look at how Christ's suffering and death was just, complete, and eternally necessary for the forgiveness of our sins. Accepting these scriptural truths will lead us down the path of conviction, confession, repentance, redemption, and relationship with our Savior and Lord.

Benjamin Nkusi, our interim pastor from Rwanda, shares the story of how he came to a knowledge of Jesus as Savior and how his ministry, ALARM, is helping in the reconciliation process around the world. Saah Joseph from Liberia also shares his story of God's providence in his life, as well as details about his church planting ministry.

Rick begins the "Journey to the Cross" series with a look at Christ's temptation in the wilderness in Matthew 4. Through this passage we come to realize that Christ didn't come to immediately 'fix' the world, but rather, through worship of the One true God, to save the world from idolatry.

John Perkins and Paul Metzger introduce us to their strategic ministry partnership, "Drum majors for Love, Truth, and Justice." They call us to pursue a theology of engagement, not disengagement, and for a movement of well-trained and educated Christian leaders who are passionately engaged in proclaiming the whole gospel of the Kingdom in word and deed, through the church, to the whole person, in the whole community.

As we celebrate seven years together as a church today, Rick walks us through the beginning of John 17 pointing out that it is all about knowing God, as opposed to knowing about God or trying to fix things for God.

Jeff Marsh speaks about Christ's global kingdom and the role His followers play in proclaiming and displaying that kingdom. He also interviews several people to see what this global discipleship can look like.

In this final week of the series, Rick addresses the heart of the gospel answering the question "Why did Jesus die?"