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	Title	Date	Speaker
	Christ Crucified for Our Atonement	Mar 7, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Hebrews 9:11-10:18 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: March 7, 2010 Series: Christ Crucified The substitutionary nature of the death of Christ is in great dispute today. Many dismiss this as a barbaric and primitive notion. Others call it “cosmic child abuse.” Christians, however, call it atonement. Central to the Christian faith is the substitutionary atonement of Christ. Jesus died for us – in our place, as our substitute, for our sins. On the cross, Jesus was killed much like the sacrifices of the Old Testament. Great things have happened for us because terrible things happened to Him. This Sunday, we remember that Christ was crucified for our atonement.
	Christ Crucified	Feb 28, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: February 28, 2010 Series: Christ Crucified A man named Jesus hanging dead on a cross occupies center stage of the Christian faith. He had been executed like a common criminal in his day. To his fellow Jews, death by crucifixion was an abomination, a sign that he was cursed by God. To everyone else, crucifixion was a sign of pathetic weakness, a despicable way to die reserved for only the most despicable people. But to his followers, the cross was not what it seemed. It wasn’t foolishness; it was actually the wisdom of God. And it wasn’t weakness; it was actually the power of God. It was through the cross of Jesus that God would take away sin and redeem the world. And so, his followers grew in their resolve to center their lives, their faith, and their preaching on Christ crucified. One theologian said, “You do not understand Christ till you understand his Cross.” This Sunday, we begin a twelve-week journey to understand the cross so that we might understand Christ.
	Mile Seven: Mission	Feb 21, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Luke 24:13-35 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: February 21, 2010 Series: The Seven Mile Road As soon as they recognize Jesus, what’s the first thing they do? They go on mission. They have to tell everyone they can about Jesus. We long for our community to respond the same way to Jesus and His Gospel.
	Mile Six: Awakened	Feb 14, 2010	Jeremy Powell
Audio Download Scripture: Luke 24:13-35 Speaker: Jeremy Powell Date: February 14, 2010 Series: The Seven Mile Road Jesus is right next to them, and yet they can’t see Him. Biblically, we’re convinced that apart from God opening our eyes, we are blind to spiritual truths. Our prayer is that our eyes and the eyes of our city would be opened and our hearts set ablaze by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
	Mile Four: Scripture	Jan 31, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Luke 24:36-49 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: January 31, 2010 Series: The Seven Mile Road Jesus unfolds the Scriptures and shows the two disciples how all of it was about Him. The Scriptures transform their hearts and ours as well. We want to read, study, preach, pray, believe, and live the Bible. As we do, we want to see Jesus and His Gospel through it all.
	Mile Three: Jesus	Jan 24, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: John 1:19-28 & 3:22-30 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: January 24, 2010 Series: The Seven Mile Road You can’t read the seven mile road story and not see Jesus everywhere. He appears on the road, teaches the Scriptures, encounters their unbelief, and opens their eyes. The whole thing is centered on Him. We want our church to be the same way where it’s all about Jesus.
	Mile Two: Need	Jan 17, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Luke 24:13-35 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: January 17, 2010 Series: The Seven Mile Road Confused. Sad. Disappointed. Blind. Unbelieving. Those words not only accurately describe the men in the story, they describe us as well. We are broken people in a broken world. We long to be a people that recognize our need and encounter Jesus in the midst of it.
	Mile One: Road	Jan 10, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Luke 24:13-35 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: January 10, 2010 Series: The Seven Mile Road The idea of a journey is an important one in the Scriptures. Spiritual life is rightly seen as a walk with God. None of us have arrived, but lets consider what it looks like to walk together.
	A Hymn of Praise	Jan 3, 2010	Seven Mile Road Church
Audio Download Scripture: Psalm 145 Speaker: Seven Mile Road Church Date: January 3, 2010 Series: Specials In Psalm 145, David writes an acrostic poem as a hymn of praise to God. The invitation of the psalm is to join in praising our Great God. As we begin a new year, various people from Seven Mile Road reflected on God's goodness over the past year and corporately, we added our voice to this chorus of praise.
	Participating in the Missio Dei	Dec 27, 2009	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Matthew 28:16-20 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: December 27, 2009 Series: Talks With Jesus So here’s how Matthew’s Gospel and our sermon series ends. The Resurrected, triumphant, sin-defeating, Satan-conquering, death-overcoming, sinner-saving, victorious Lord Jesus stands with his disciples on a mountain in Galilee. He’s standing right in front of them and yet some can hardly believe it’s really him and that he’s really alive. He gathers the eleven for one last conversation. “Go therefore and make disciples.” Jesus sends his disciples on mission to the world even as the Father had sent him. They are to continue his work so that people from every culture and country on earth might come to know salvation in him. They are to baptize in the name of the Triune God. They are to teach them to walk in obedience to the Lord. And they are to do all this with the assurance that Jesus will be with them till the end. Today, Seven Mile Road Church has been swept up into this same mission. We get to participate in making disciples by making Jesus known here and to the ends of the earth.
	Your Gospel Story Comforts Others	Dec 20, 2009	Matthew Kruse
Audio Download Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Speaker: Matthew Kruse Date: December 20, 2009 Series: Specials The grace that God had poured out in Thessalonica was not an anonymous grace. Everyone had heard about it. Their story of repentance from sin, faith in Christ and endurance in affliction had exploded out from their little community like a thunderclap. Paul, Silas and Timothy… Macedonia and Achaia… ‘everyone everywhere’ received comfort and joy and strength because of what God had done in their city. This thing was bigger than their little church. And so Paul reminds them to hope in the gospel because its work can never be contained in the walls of a single congregation, but necessarily overflows from one life to another and one community to another, so that all can be comforted.
	The King On Trial	Dec 13, 2009	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: John 18:28-19:16 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: December 13, 2009 Series: Talks With Jesus As Jesus emerges from the garden, he’s no longer trembling and troubled, but composed and calm. He is unjustly arrested and brought to trial trumped up on false charges. His accusers move quickly, acting under the cover of night. They have concocted a case filled with lies and empty accusations. Yet Jesus does not resist. He does not protest. He does not defend himself, for it for this hour that he has born. His case is finally brought before Pilate, the Roman Governor. On the surface, it appears that Pilate stands in power and Jesus powerless. Yet the conversation reveals Jesus’ true identity; that of a king. Ultimately it is Jesus who displays courage and Pilate who plays the coward. The outcome of the trial is sealed even before it begins. The King is to be crucified.

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