The Village Church - Sermons
The Village Church exists to bring glory to God by making disciples through gospel-centered worship, gospel-centered community, gospel-centered service and gospel-centered multiplication.
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Union with Christ
The final gospel metaphor of union with Christ serves as a blessing for the believer and a reminder of the finished work of Jesus. In Ephesians 1, Paul begins his letter with a handful of prepositional promises that give us hope and comfort. In love and through His blood, we have been unified com...
2022-08-21Link to episode
Redemption
The apostle Paul serves as the perfect example of the gospel metaphor of redemption. After years of ravaging the Church, God called Paul out of terrorizing His people and into fortifying the Church. We worship God around the world today because of the redemption of this wicked man. When God redee...
2022-08-14Link to episode
Adoption
This angle of the gospel shows our full acceptance as children into the family of God. We have been justified, made new, and adopted by our good Father. This gospel metaphor serves as a reminder of God?s unending embrace of the elect as beloved members of His family.
2022-08-07Link to episode
New Creation
As we turn the diamond of the gospel, we see the old passing away and the new coming. When Christ comes for His people at the end of all things, we will not spend our days in some ethereal plane plucking a cartoon harp. We will be in physical bodies, in a physical place, and all things will be ne...
2022-08-01Link to episode
Justification
Beginning the Every Angle sermon series, Matt Chandler compares the gospel to the most precious of gemstones. As we marvel at the good news of Jesus, holding this dazzling stone to the light, every angle of truth is illuminated. In this sermon, Matt speaks on the gospel metaphor of Justification.
2022-07-25Link to episode
Pulling Back the Curtain
Around the age of 90, the apostle John finds himself isolated on an island, far from the churches he had planted years ago, and imprisoned by the most corrupt and violent emperor. In this sermon, Ross Lester shares that it was during this season of suffering that Jesus gave John an astounding rev...
2022-07-18Link to episode
Sweet Discipline
To stand firm in hardship, we have to remember that we are children of a good, good God. In this sermon, Ryan Kwon reminds us that our Father trains, nurtures, and blesses us by His merciful hand as we go through hard seasons.
2022-07-11Link to episode
Desire, Delight, and Discontent
In pursuit of contentment, our eyes become set on resources we do not have rather than what God has already given us. In this sermon, Mason King calls us to ask God for deliverance from the desire for more money or resource, thinking that more will cure what ails us.
2022-07-05Link to episode
A Sober Celebration of Life
In response to the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, we celebrated the protection of life with a deep sense of sobriety. The work to care for women, children, and families continues to be a space where God calls His Church to enter into as salt and light.
2022-06-27Link to episode
Wisely and Well
In a flyover view of the book of Ecclesiastes, we see our lives as short and good and that we should live in preparation to meet our God. The time is now to live wisely and well.
2022-06-20Link to episode
Bring Your First and Best
If we bring our first and best to something other than God, we bring an offering to something unable to sustain our worship. We have worshiped at weak altars. Yet God pleads with us to return, seek first His kingdom, and steward well the resources each of us has been given.
2022-06-13Link to episode
Celebrate and Rejoice
There is a defiant joy and bend towards celebration by which the people of God are meant to be marked. While the church is messy and life increasingly complicated, God is still accomplishing amazing work among His people. This is a cause for celebration!
2022-06-07Link to episode
Lament and Hope
There are moments when the brokenness becomes so vivid it wakes us to see our world for what it is. Let us lift our heads and turn our eyes to our Lord, our only real hope.
2022-06-01Link to episode
Christ Is the "More"
Our money can put us on a treadmill with a goal we will never reach. Material wealth and status lose their luster, leaving us wanting more. Christ is the ?more? for which our hearts are longing.
2022-05-23Link to episode
Only God Is Great
Jesus is not anti-wealth, but He knows that money makes for a worthless god. Jesus is not coming after our money but our hearts.
2022-05-17Link to episode
Let the Nations Be Glad
God is redeeming, renewing, and restoring every tribe, tongue, and nation on earth, and we find ourselves in the middle of the story.
2022-05-10Link to episode
The Surprising Call of God
God is at work around the world today. Lift up your eyes. The harvest is here.
2022-05-03Link to episode
Memento Mori
Our days have been numbered, our God is trustworthy, and Jesus has dealt with our shame.
2022-04-26Link to episode
Invitation and Celebration
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is a means of celebration for the believer and an invitation for the unbeliever.
2022-04-20Link to episode
A Community of Endurance
Christian leaders live out the power of the gospel and demonstrate its validity by faithfully pursuing Christ in the face of opposition.
2022-04-12Link to episode
Change Your Perspective
Believers should not be surprised by suffering but should instead rejoice in future hope, remember why we suffer, and rely on our faithful and sovereign God.
2022-04-05Link to episode
Plant Trees and Pay Taxes
Christian hope is an active mindset that works to restore true humanity, is lived in dependence upon God, and compels us to a faithful presence.
2022-03-28Link to episode
What We?ll Face
The people of God endure suffering with the hope of final victory as the inheritance of Christ pulls them ever forward.
2022-03-22Link to episode
Sanctified Together
Christian relationships are to be marked by mutual submission in light of the gospel.
2022-03-16Link to episode
The Suffering Servant
When we bear unjust wounds without sinning in our speech, we display Christ to a watching world.
2022-03-07Link to episode
Submission as Witness
Christians are to graciously submit to authority for the Lord?s sake, as keeping honorable conduct shouts the gospel even when we are silenced.
2022-03-01Link to episode
Holy Living
We have been chosen and redeemed by the grace of God to live holy lives with one another as witnesses to a broken world.
2022-02-22Link to episode
A Gospel Call
The people of God stand in grace as the gospel calls them to both action and love.
2022-02-15Link to episode
Hope and Glory
Peter?s first letter calls its readers to a living hope while encouraging them to steward their suffering and orient their lives around future glory.
2022-02-08Link to episode
The Story of the Nations
We are caught up in the story God is writing, and we?ve been given power to be His witnesses to the ends of the earth.
2022-02-01Link to episode
The Hope of the Church
John Stonestreet, President of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, encourages us to have hope that Jesus is Lord as we engage this cultural moment.
2022-01-25Link to episode
Ethnic Harmony
God?s plan is to create a community of people who would reflect His glory, wisdom, and moral beauty to the world.
2022-01-19Link to episode
In His Own Image
Human beings have been made distinct from the rest of creation, which makes the value of any human life immeasurable.
2022-01-11Link to episode
This Is Not Our Home
With a new year comes the opportunity to examine our lives and measure the space between what we say we believe and how we live. Does your life on Earth reflect the reality of Heaven as your ultimate home?
2022-01-04Link to episode
Advent of Joy
Christian joy transcends circumstantial happiness because Jesus has overcome the darkness.
2021-12-21Link to episode
Advent of Love
The overwhelming reality that the Son of God put on flesh and dwelt among us should cause Christians to marvel.
2021-12-14Link to episode
Advent of Peace
Regardless of what?s going on in the world, the coming of Christ has given us an opportunity to let peace be established in our hearts.
2021-12-07Link to episode
Advent of Hope
Unearthed: He Empowers
God has called us to Himself, and He will fully empower us to live as the people He made us to be. We can be encouraged to step out in faith and trust in Him.
2021-11-23Link to episode
Unearthed: Deep Peace
Much of what frustrates our lives today is driven out when we live as the people God made us to be, with the people God gave us to love.
2021-11-16Link to episode
Unearthed: Hidden Value
The Creator of the universe has invested in each of us for our joy and His glory. Discovering and living into that investment provides us with what we?ve been searching for.
2021-11-01Link to episode
Unearthed: One Another
Our lives are interwoven with others, and we need each other. Our varying purposes shape a community of faith where people are cheered on to live out their own part of God?s good design.
2021-10-26Link to episode
Unearthed: Revealed
God forms us into who we are through our gifts and by the triumphs and tragedies that make up our stories. Unearthing these things reveals His good design.
2021-10-18Link to episode
Unearthed: Buried
God has prepared specific opportunities for us to step into, but words and wounds can bury our potential and keep us from realizing them.
2021-10-12Link to episode
Unearthed: Who We Are
We all share a general identity as children of God and heirs of His promise, but what does it look like to step into our specific identities? Who has God made us to be? Visit patersoncenter.com/tvc to learn more.
2021-10-05Link to episode
Unearthed: His Workmanship
We are God?s workmanship; each of us is formed by His hand, with His people, and for His glory. God calls us to Himself for a specific purpose.
2021-09-28Link to episode
The Paradoxical Kingdom
Jesus came to earth preaching the kingdom of God?His reign and rule over all creation?and it looks different than what many of us imagine.
2021-09-21Link to episode
Everyday Opportunities
The love of Christ is the only answer to the brokenness of the world, but many of us walk right past what God is inviting us into every day.
2021-09-14Link to episode
The Breadth of the Gospel
The Bible doesn?t just talk about the gospel as individual salvation; the gospel is the good news that God is redeeming everything.
2021-09-08Link to episode
The Depth of the Gospel
You can grow up in church your entire life and never truly hear the gospel because receiving it and being transformed by its power requires God to move.
2021-08-30Link to episode