Introduction: Under normal circumstances parents expect great things for their children. We want them to be wise, handsome or beautiful, filled with grace, successful. In some cases we look to our children to live out our own limited successes or overcome their failures. But here we are going to look…

It started in Genesis and continues today, what can Saul teach us about hiding among the baggage?

How is it? We live in a day and age where you can be better connected with people around the world, within seconds, multiple people at one time, plugged in to what they are doing where they are going, their likes and dislikes, and yet… The feeling of loneliness, the scary lack of depth in relationships,…

Ever heard the phrase, "Fake it til you make it"? Well, whether we realize it or not, we can be really good at faking it in life, and it is time to drop the mask and embrace who God made us to be!

This sermon is based on the collective readings from the 1979 Revised Common Lectionary. I explore the relationship that space, place, and environment play in our relational disfunction with God and others (cf. Murray Rae, Architecture and Theology). The good news is that God pursues us to come out of our hiding places.

The Masks of Front Street: Darth Vader Heart Attach Restaurant Nuns and Gene Simmons The Latin word “Persona” - we get our word personality from it - means… “mask.” We all wear them... We are wired for survival… as kids we learn to place our personalities in areas that we assess need protecting. 23 Keep…

As we wrap up our series, we ask this question: Have you ever thought of yourself as a bully?

And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee : because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord . (KJV) 20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee : because thou hast sold thyself…

Intro We are continuing our series, The Masks We Wear By way of introduction, I’m going to put up a couple different pictures. One of these came out a while ago, and it held the title of How to Offend 4 groups of Geeks Put up the first picture But when I went to pull up this picture, I found a new one.…

The story has been told of a believer, Frederick Nolan, who was fleeing from his enemies during a time of persecution in North Africa. Pursued by them over hill and valley with no place to hide, he fell exhausted into a wayside cave, expecting his enemies to find him soon. Awaiting his death, he saw…

Brother Paul teaches us that we cannot hide from God and we need to learn to not let Satan take charge of our lives.

In the second part of the series, we take a look at King Saul, and how his actions we hiding a deeper issue that many of us struggle with.

Today is an Easter unlike any other in the history of Christianity. Never before have the churches across the world closed their doors on this day. Never before, and I hope never again, have the faithful not gathered on Easter morning to celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord. If you had told me that…

Hide and Seek We invented this game in my house. We call it: hide and seek. I am the worst at the game. Not because I am bad at hiding. When we play at youth group I do pretty well. Because in our house, we have this cheater. Vin. No matter where I go, no matter where I hide, she gives me away. She follows…

Often we encourage people to try new things and not to say, "I can't." Especially in life we want them to be successful, but in the Christian life in order to be successful, triumphant, and victorious there are some things we simply can't do.

On the evening of Easter Day, the disciples were gathered together. They were not meeting to celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord. They were not rejoicing in Jesus’ triumph over sin and death. This was not a gathering of faith; instead, it was a gathering of unbelief. The disciples, who should have…

The call of God is a preview of what he can do in our faithfulness.

Hiding from God may not be your best strategy... we are called to bow to him now, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, while we still have the choice.

PRESENTATION: Jesus Hid Himself Each year on Passion Sunday, when we arrive at church we are greeted with the stark sight of the statues and images veiled. This is traditionally connected to the final verse of today’s Gospel passage, “They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself…

God's healing presence through Mary is not always obvious. God used Eve's weakness through Mary to crush the head of the serpent and that part of how she crushes the serpent is through bearing new (spiritual) children. God used a woman's loving concern of making sure that the disciples had some loaves to set up Jesus' miracle which in turn set up his teaching. God still uses the weak and wounded to crush the head of the snake and often his healing is behind the scenes as it has been at Lourdes.

After we sin, how should we respond? Today's passage gives us three steps to stop the cycle of sinning.

Until you deal with your flesh, it will continue to rot away, eventually destroying you.

Lead Pastor Wes Terry preaches on "Hiding From God" out of Genesis 3:6-15. This message is part of the series "The Fall" out of Genesis 3. The sermon was preached on March 12th, 2023.

John was a sign like Jesus in that he was a sign of the kingdom but suffered like Jesus. Mary was a hidden sign, hidden from the demons, but she suffers with Jesus in the cross and had to await his return for her

Fearing people is a dangerous trap