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The High Calling of Motherhood

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Lord, Teach Us To Pray In Our Homes

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Lord Teach Us To Pray Corporately

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Lord Teach Us To Pray Privately

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Lord, Teach Us To Pray That We Might Be Empowered

Matt Kruse — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

The Resurrection as Reasonable

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Lord, Teach Us To Pray Honestly and Submitted

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Lord, Teach Us To Pray For Forgiveness

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Lord, Teach Us To Pray With Your Word

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Lord, Teach Us To Pray To The Triune God

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500

The Gospel in Bombay's Red Light District

Mission Team — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Lord, Teach Us To Pray Like Children

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Lord, Teach Us To Pray When We Are Busy

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

(Our apologies for the poor sound quality of this recording.)

Lord, Teach Us To Pray

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Our apologies - we were unable to record the message but have attached some notes from the sermon.

What Disciples Do Because of What Jesus Has Done

Ian McConnell — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Comfort Others As You Have Been Comforted

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Hope in Suffering

Anthony Coughlin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Relax, Christ the Redeemer Reigns!

Doug Logan — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

This Year & 100 Years From Now

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Healed Lepers

Seven Mile Road Church — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

God Has Come

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500

God is Not Coming

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500

God is Coming: How Could We Mess This All Up?

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500

God is Coming: Who Has Time For Rest?

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500

God is Coming: Who's Going to Build His House?

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500

God is Coming: How Do We Get Ready?

Binu Abraham — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500

God is Coming: Who Gets to Serve in His House?

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500

God is Coming: What Do We Wear?

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0400

God is Coming: Who's Going To Pay For All Of This?

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400

God is Coming: What Goes In His House?

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400

God Is Coming: Where Will He Live?

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400

God is Coming

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400

In the closing section of Exodus (chapters 25-40) God speaks once more to His people and they receive an incredible announcement: God is coming! Yahweh will dwell among His people! The Lord whose power was displayed in Egypt, whose holiness was reflected at Mt. Sinai, would now reside in the desert. God would dwell like His people, among His people, with His people. Get ready then, God is coming.

Keep it Up

Ron Hamilton — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400

The Apostle Paul writes to the young church in Colosse encouraging them concerning what God has done among them and calling them to keep it up. Like a father, Paul is concerned for this baby church and instructs them to steer clear of distractions that can lead them away from Jesus and His gospel. Today Ron Hamilton, a brother from the CCCC encourages Seven Mile Road in the same way.

Covenant Confirmed

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

God and Israel stand before one another at Mt. Sinai like a groom and bride standing before the altar. They make vows to one another and promise loyalty and faithfulness. Some words are spoken and some rituals are performed to bring the two into a permanent union, into a covenant relationship. Only, Israel will break her vows and God knows it. She will be faithless and He will remain faithful. And in the end, He will pay for her faithlessness and she will benefit from His faithfulness. It's an incredible moment - one that we share in through Jesus!

Ten Commandments

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

After encountering a holy God upon the mountain, the people now receive His Ten Commandments. Patterned after other ancient treaties, the people are about to enter into a covenant relationship with Yahweh. They will be His subjects and He will be their Great King. With the very first words, God reminds His people that the commandments are given in a context of grace. He has not saved them because the kept the law. Instead, they ought to keep His law as a response to His salvation. He has not rescued them because they are holy but so that He might make them holy. The Ten Commandments begin with gospel and grace before law and obedience. These ten words reflect the beautiful moral character of our God and call us to the way of life that leads to fullness of joy.

Meeting God

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

The people of Israel are trekking through the wilderness and alas they have reached Mt. Sinai, the mountain of God. God has drawn His people to this place in great love. Like an eagle bears her young on her wings, so the Lord has bore Israel and brought them out of captivity unto Himself. Only as they approach the mountain, they see God as not only love, but as holy. Fire, smoke, thunder, lightning, a trembling mountain, and a trembling people are all present as God descends upon the mountain. The Scriptures tell us that God is love and so we are drawn to Him. But God is also holy and so we must stand in awe of Him. How can a sinful people approach a God who is loving and holy? Exodus 19 will tell us.

Sharing the Load

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Seeing Moses bear the burden of the whole community by himself, Jethro sits his son-in-law down to offer some fatherly advice. The task of leading this people is too great to fall on one man’s shoulders and will only lead to a worn out people and a burnt out leader. Instead, the people can best be served with a plurality of leaders who share the weight of leadership. Moses heeds the advice and chooses capable and qualified men to partner with him to lead God’s people. Though this wisdom comes from Jethro's lips, it is wisdom from the heart of God. Share leadership is the pattern that Jesus and the Apostles hand down to the church as well.

Strike the Rock

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0400

The people set up camp but come across a familiar problem. There’s no water and they’re thirsty again. Having seen God rain down wonder bread from the sky, there’s no way the people can do anything but trust Him right? Wrong. In fact, the people intensify their complaints and it looks like Moses has a bull’s-eye painted on his chest. While the people pick up stones, Moses is directed to pick up the staff that had wreaked havoc in Egypt. Judgment is about to fall. Who will it fall on? Moses? The people? Neither. In His incredible grace, God allows the rock to be struck and provides for His people again.

Bread From Heaven

Dennis Mathew — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Moses and the people of Israel go from the wet shores of the Red Sea into the dry wilderness toward Sinai. For days they go without food and water. Yet rather than trust God who minutes ago miraculously saved them, they began to grumble and complain. God leads them into the wilderness because though He has brought them out of slavery, He needs to get the slavery out of them. The wilderness is training ground where God provides, teaches, and tests His people.

Israel's Song

Jeremy Powell — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Baptism & Stories of Grace

Seven Mile Road Church — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Today we celebrate Jesus and His gospel as six people from Seven Mile Road get baptized. Through this simple sacrament, Jesus reminds us that as surely as we are washed with water, so surely have we been cleansed from our sins through Christ's atoning death. As surely as we go down into the waters and come up out of them, so surely have we died with Christ and risen with Him to new life. Listen and hear stories of God's grace in the lives of men and women in our community.

Are We to Continue in Sin?

Binu Abraham — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Paul says that when the law was introduced, it resulted in increased sin. Yet God responded to increased sin not with increased punishment, rather greater grace. This response caused people to ask: "Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?" Seem fairly logical, right? Paul didn't seem to think so. Learn why Paul doesn't believe that grace gives us a license to sin, but instead leads us to learn more about who we are in Jesus and live according to our true identity.

Unity on Baptism

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Having explored what separates, we’ll end our mini-series by celebrating what unites all Christians concerning baptism. We’ll look at what the Bible says baptism is and what happens when we get baptized.

Two Views on Baptism

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Handling Theological Disagreement

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Early in the life of the church, a theological debate brewed that threatened to unravel the unity that believers enjoyed in the gospel. As Gentiles, people who had historically been outside of the community of faith, became believers in Jesus, it raised the question of whether or not they needed to be circumcised like believing Jews. Some said yes. Others said no. Both sides were on the same team and sincerely believed that they were doing what God required. And yet after passionate, robust, dialogue, and debate, the believers came to a conclusion - united and full of joy. The conversation over baptism can provoke the same kind of dissention and debate. So the question is, how should a young church handle theological disagreement? What spirit and mindset should we bring to the conversation? Today we allow the church in Jerusalem to shape how we approach the issue of baptism.

The Father's Greater Joy

Rob Burns — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Perhaps you had a great father. Perhaps you had a lousy one. In communicating His love and relationship with humanity, God describes Himself as a Father. Why does He use this image and what does it mean for our we are to live? Today we consider God as the true and greater Father.

Song of Salvation

Siby Varghese — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Standing on the shores of the Red Sea, the people of Israel break out into jubilant song. The women dance. The people sing. For four centuries they were foreigners in Egypt. Slaves. Now they were free. The Lord parted the sea for them, while their enemies sank to the bottom like lead. How could they keep silent? They couldn't! Neither can we. Today we consider our redemption and singing as an appropriate response to salvation. We'll let the redeemed people of God in Exodus 15 teach us what should mark our corporate worship and song.

Crossing the Sea

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0400

The newly freed Israelites are led out of Egypt by God Himself. In a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night, Yahweh walks His people out of the land of slavery. The only problem is, He seems a bit lost. Rather than taking the short and direct route, God leads His people to the shores of the Red Sea. Add this with Pharaoh's change of heart and murderous hate, and now the people are sitting ducks, trapped between an angry sea and an even angrier army. Though it seems like their dead bodies will line the shore, God works a mighty salvation for His people. They are saved. Their enemies are drowned. Today we consider this well known story and learn what salvation is all about.

Free At Last

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 29 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Freedom. The day of God's deliverance had finally come. No swords were drawn, no arrows shot, and no spears thrown. In fact without a single battle, without so much as lifting a finger, the powerless band of slaves walked out of one of the most powerful empires the world had ever known. God set them free. In fact, God so powerfully demonstrated His might that the Egyptians begged the slaves to leave. The paupers left like princes, taking the wealth of Egypt with them. God had promised. God delivered. God always keeps His word and His word can be trusted for our freedom as well. Pack your bags...we're leaving Egypt!

Passed Over Rather Than Struck Down

Ajay Thomas — Sun, 22 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Nine times the Lord showed His power to Pharaoh. Nine times Pharaoh hardened his heart and his grip over the people of Israel. Yahweh promises one more plague that will bring this contest to an end. A final plague will sweep through the land claiming the lives of all the firstborn. There's just one problem. Israel is in as much danger as Egypt. They are in idolatry and sin as much as the Egyptians and deserve judgment and death as much as they. What will distinguish them from their neighbors? What mark do they have that they should be passed over rather than struck down?

Blood. Not their own, but the blood of a substitute killed in their place for their sins. An innocent will die in the place of the guilty. Thousands of years later, Jesus would declare Himself to be the true Lamb, that because of His shed blood, God would pass over us in wrath and visit us in mercy.