Elmwood Church - Sermons
We are a multi-generational church family inviting all people into the life-giving way of Jesus. Learn more at http://www.elmwoodchurch.org.
Episodes
110 episodes
Becoming All Things
Empty me. Fill me. Use me. What if the key to reaching the people around you started with a simple three-line prayer? This message unpacks how Paul's radical approach to connecting with wildly different people can inspire all...
A Legacy of Motherly Faithfulness
In this Mother's Day message, we turn to Exodus 2:1–10 and the story of Jochebed — a mother whose courage and trust in God changed the course of history. Her willingness to defy Pharaoh and entrust her son to God's providence points us forward ...
Laying Down Our Rights
In this message, we dive into 1 Corinthians 9:1–18, where the Apostle Paul sets a radical example for the church in Corinth — and for us today. Rather than demanding what he was rightfully owed, Paul willingly laid down his right to financial c...
Content With What We Have
What does it look like to live without anxiety in a world of overwhelming abundance?Drawing from Matthew 6:25-34, this message offers a framework for navigating material abundance without losing your soul to it. We dig into what t...
Trusting God When There Isn't Enough
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said it is possible to live a financially and materially non-anxious life. In order to live this life, Jesus tells us to do two things:1) Go to school in the classroom of creation2) Remember whose...
Finding the Ultimate Treasure
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said it is possible to live a financially and materially non-anxious life. This message explores the foundation — our relationship to money and possessions.In order to live a financially non-anxio...
He Lived. He Died. He Rose.
In the first sermon recorded in the early church, Peter announces the good news — Jesus lived. Jesus died. Jess rose. This simple message has the power to change our lives if we let it.
How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place
The main theme of Psalm 84 is homesickness for the presence of God. As we look at this song, we'll see the pattern it sets, how that pattern is brought to completion in Jesus, and how we should respond.
Love is Greater Than Knowledge
When we read Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, we see a church whose attitudes and actions are sometimes indistinguishable from the Roman culture around them. The church in Corinth is messy and divided, but it belongs to God. The le...
Undivided Devotion to the Lord
When we read Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, we see a church whose attitudes and actions are sometimes indistinguishable from the Roman culture around them. The church in Corinth is messy and divided, but it belongs to God. The le...
Embodying the Covenant Faithfulness of God
When we read Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, we see a church whose attitudes and actions are sometimes indistinguishable from the Roman culture around them. The church in Corinth is messy and divided, but it belongs to God. The le...
The Grass Isn't Always Greener
When we read Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, we see a church whose attitudes and actions are sometimes indistinguishable from the Roman culture around them. The church in Corinth is messy and divided, but it belongs to God. The le...
Mutual Self-Giving In Marriage
When we read Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, we see a church whose attitudes and actions are sometimes indistinguishable from the Roman culture around them. The church in Corinth is messy and divided, but it belongs to God. The le...
Fleeing From Sexual Immorality
When we read Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, we see a church whose attitudes and actions are sometimes indistinguishable from the Roman culture around them. The church in Corinth is messy and divided, but it belongs to God. The le...
As Each Part Does Its Work
How does the body of Christ grow and come to maturity? In Ephesians 4, Paul tells us that the body grows to maturity as each part does its work. Here are two truths that will change how we live as members of the body: 1) God has pre...
Choosing to be Wronged
When we read Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, we see a church whose attitudes and actions are sometimes indistinguishable from the Roman culture around them. The church in Corinth is messy and divided, but it belongs to God. The le...
A Holy Community
When we read Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, we see a church whose attitudes and actions are sometimes indistinguishable from the Roman culture around them. The church in Corinth is messy and divided, but it belongs to God. The le...
Proud of All the Wrong Things
When we read Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, we see a church whose attitudes and actions are sometimes indistinguishable from the Roman culture around them. The church in Corinth is messy and divided, but it belongs to God. The le...
The One Who Fulfills All of Scripture
What we behold — what our heart loves and finds beautiful and compelling — will determine how we behave. The goal of this Advent series is to help us behold Jesus. Each week we’re going to look at an aspect of Jesus’ identity, and together thes...
The One Who Makes All Things New
What we behold — what our heart loves and finds beautiful and compelling — will determine how we behave. The goal of this Advent series is to help us behold Jesus. Each week we’re going to look at an aspect of Jesus’ identity, and together thes...
The Bringer of the New Covenant
What we behold — what our heart loves and finds beautiful and compelling — will determine how we behave. The goal of this Advent series is to help us behold Jesus. Each week we’re going to look at an aspect of Jesus’ identity, and together thes...
