Shepherd's Community Church Sermons

Shepherd's Community Church - 09/01/2024 - Following Christ at Home As many of our families begin a new school year, we turn to Colossians 3:18-21 to see how Christ commands us to live at home.

Shepherd's Community Church - 08/25/2024 - Jesus, the One Who Gives Sight to the Blind In part 2 of this exposition of John 9, Pastor Ryan will continue to help us see the significance of what Jesus did for this blind man and why it matters for us.

Shepherd's Community Church - 08/11/2024 - Enjoying & Pursuing Spiritual Unity This exposition of Psalm 133 will explore the blessing of spiritual unity.

Shepherd's Community Church - 08/04/2024 - Keeping God & Eternity in View This exposition of Psalm 73 will concentrate on the reality and way to deal with doubt and discouragement in the Christian life.

Shepherd's Community Church - 07/28/2024 - Casting Your Burden on the Lord This exposition of Psalm 55 will explore the way that prayer expresses and leads to the provision of our need for God.

Shepherd's Community Church - 07/21/2024 - Dealing with Spiritual Depression This exposition will explore the nature, causes, and way through spiritual depression - acknowledging it as a common condition in the Christian life.

Shepherd's Community Church - 07/14/2024 - Rejoicing in the Forgiving God In Psalm 32, David teaches us about the goodness of God's forgiveness and the need to willingly confess our sins to God.

Shepherd's Community Church - 07/07/2024 - Trusting the Good Shepherd This exposition will focus on the widely loved 23rd Psalm and the Lord's faithful leadership and provision for his people as their good shepherd.

Shepherd's Community Church - 06/30/2024 - Learning to Love the God Who Speaks This second exposition of the Life of Faith in the Psalms series will focus on a Christian's relationship with God's revelation in creation and Scripture.

Shepherd's Community Church - 06/23/2024 - Taking Refuge in the Son This sermon on Psalm 2 will focus on the urgent need to take refuge in Christ. It helps the listener answer the question: What are you doing with Jesus?

Shepherd's Community Church - 06/16/2024 - Jesus, the One Who Gives Sight to the Blind In today's passage, Jesus heals a blind man on the Sabbath and teaches us a great deal about God, this fallen world, and ourselves.

Shepherd's Community Church - 06/09/2024 - Death, Damnation, and Deliverance This exposition of Hebrews 9:26-28 will highlight how the death of Christ and the return of Christ relate to our death, judgment, and salvation. There is no issue more urgent and important than this.

Shepherd's Community Church - 06/02/2024 - You Have a Sin-Solving Mediator As the Mediator of the New Covenant, Jesus solves the problem of sin, which the Old Covenant never could do.

Shepherd's Community Church - 05/26/2024 - God is One This exposition brings the "One God" sermon series to a close, by focusing on the fitting response of the creature to a God who is one.

Shepherd's Community Church - 05/19/2024 - God is Love The world is desperately confused about the nature and origin of love. This exposition will seek to unpack the glory of God's love and what it means for God to be love, as John calls him in 1 John 4.

Shepherd's Community Church - 05/12/2024 - God is Triune In this sermon we will explore the mystery of all mysteries; the doctrine of the Trinity.

Shepherd's Community Church - 05/05/2024 - God is Sovereign What does it mean that God is sovereign? This sermon will explore the biblical (and sometimes controversial) doctrine of the sovereignty of God.

Shepherd's Community Church - 04/28/2024 - God is Holy This sermon will seek to define and apply the doctrine of God's absolute holiness.

Shepherd's Community Church - 04/21/2024 - God is Unchangeable This exposition will focus on God's unchangeable essence and how it teaches us to trust him always.

Shepherd's Community Church - 04/14/2024 - God is Perfect This sermon explores several ways in which the perfection of God is unfolded for us in Scripture, helping us see how different God is from us, so that we might see ourselves clearly in the light of his perfection.

Shepherd's Community Church - 04/07/2024 - God is Incomprehensible This first sermon in a series on the attributes of God will focus on God's incomprehensibility and how it should shape the way we live and relate to God.

Shepherd's Community Church - 03/31/2024 - Why You Should Trust in Jesus Looking at Jesus' words in Matthew 12:38-41, we will reflect upon the greatest evidence Jesus provides that we should trust in him as our only Savior and Lord.

Shepherd's Community Church - 03/24/2024 - Gaining the World & Losing Your Soul Genesis 36 is a summary of the prosperity and legacy of Esau that teaches us about the greatest blessings and privileges man can receive from God.

Shepherd's Community Church - 03/17/2024 - The Already & the Not Yet This exposition of Genesis 35:16-29 will focus on how we should think about our lives as God's people in this world, while we journey on to our eternal home.

Shepherd's Community Church - 03/10/2024 - The Devotion God Deserves from Us In this exposition, we return to Genesis 35:1-15 to learn about the kind of devotion God deserves from us.

Shepherd's Community Church - 03/03/2024 - The God Who Deserves Our Devotion In Genesis 35:1-15, Jacob devotes himself exclusively to YHWH, in response to YHWH's grace and faithfulness to him. In the same way, we ought to devote ourselves exclusively to God; in response to God's grace and faithfulness to us. This exposition will focus on the God who deserves our devotion.

Shepherd's Community Church - 02/25/2024 - The World in Which We Live In this exposition of the raw and grisly 34th chapter of Genesis, we will seek to learn what God teaches us about the world in which we live as his people.

Shepherd's Community Church - 02/18/2024 - God's Invincible Promises In the long-awaited encounter between Jacob and Esau, God keeps his promises to Jacob in surprising and gracious ways. This exposition will focus on the invincible nature of the saving promises of God.

Shepherd's Community Church - 02/11/2024 - Wrestling with God This exposition will focus upon Jacob's famous wrestling match with a mystery man whom he later identifies as God, and the lessons it teaches all of God's people today.

Shepherd's Community Church - 02/04/2024 - God is With Us As Jacob prepares to meet Esau, he looks to God to preserve him and his family according to his covenant faithfulness. This exposition of Genesis 32:1-21 will focus on the truth of God's presence with his people in their trials.

Shepherd's Community Church - 01/28/2024 - Following a Faithful God In Genesis 31, God commands Jacob to return with his family back to the land of Canaan. This exposition will focus upon what it means to follow our faithful God in this fallen world.

Shepherd's Community Church - 01/21/2024 - The Blessings of God This exposition of Genesis 30:25-43 will give attention to the way God's blessings come to sinners and what sorts of blessings we ought to value and desire the most.

Shepherd's Community Church - 01/14/2024 - The Sludge of Sin & the Faithfulness of God This exposition of Genesis will focus upon the faithfulness of God in spite of the sins of his covenant people.

Shepherd's Community Church - 01/07/2024 - God Provides and Disciplines Our exposition of Genesis 29:1-30 will focus on the providence and faithful discipline that God gives to his covenant people.

Shepherd's Community Church - 12/31/2023 - What do you have to praise God for? This exposition of Psalm 103 will focus upon the way to cultivate heartfelt, wholehearted, joyful praise to God.

Shepherd's Community Church - 12/24/2023 - Prophet, Priest, and King This sermon will explore the significance of Jesus Christ as our great prophet, priest, and king.

Shepherd's Community Church - 12/17/2023 - The Hypostatic Union This sermon will seek to explain the meaning and importance of the doctrine of the hypostatic union, showing the glory of Jesus and what makes him such a capable and sufficient Savior.

Shepherd's Community Church - 12/10/2023 - The Gate of Heaven This week we will go through an exposition of Genesis 28:10-22.

Shepherd's Community Church - 12/03/2023 - Where Sinners Go From Here This exposition of Genesis 27:41-28:9 will focus on the lessons learned from the direction each member of Isaac's family takes after Jacob steals the blessing from Esau.

Shepherd's Community Church - 11/26/2023 - A Dysfunctional Family & The Blessing of God This exposition of Genesis 26:34-27:40 will focus on several vital lessons learned from the account of Jacob stealing his father's blessing from Esau.

Shepherd's Community Church - 11/19/2023 - Familiar Troubles & a Faithful God This exposition of Genesis 26:1-33 will focus upon the common troubles of the people of God in every generation, and God's faithfulness to them in the midst of those troubles.

Shepherd's Community Church - 11/12/2023 - Trading Lasting Blessing for Temporary Satisfaction In this exposition of Genesis 25:27-34, we learn about the foolishness of trading the blessing of God for the fleeting pleasures of this life.

Shepherd's Community Church - 11/05/2023 - God's Enduring Promises Returning to the book of Genesis, we will meditate upon the enduring nature of God's saving promises as seen in Genesis 25:19-26.

Shepherd's Community Church - 10/29/2023 - What Christianity is Truly About This final exposition of Galatians will focus on the true nature of Christianity.

Shepherd's Community Church - 10/22/2023 - How to Invest in Eternity This exposition of Galatians 6:6-10 will focus on the need to invest in the church as a means to invest in eternity.

Shepherd's Community Church - 10/15/2023 - Gospel-Shaped, Spirit-Filled Love This exposition of Galatians 6:1-5 will focus on the kind of love that God commands His people to have for one another.

Shepherd's Community Church - 10/08/2023 - A Truly Holy Life This exposition of Galatians 5:16-26 will focus on the need Christians have for the power of the Holy Spirit to live a truly holy life.

Shepherd's Community Church - 10/01/2023 - The Only Way to Overcome Sin In this exposition of Galatians 5:16-26, we will consider the weakness of the law and our need for the Holy Spirit to overcome sin.

Shepherd's Community Church - 09/24/2023 - How to Use Our Freedom This exposition of Galatians 5:13-15 will focus on the way our freedom in Christ calls for our obedience to him. True Christian freedom leads to obedience, not to sin.

Shepherd's Community Church - 09/17/2023 - Making a Break With Legalism In this section Paul turns to the implications of the doctrine of justification by faith alone, calling the church to make a clean break with legalistic teachers and legalistic teachings. This exposition of Galatians will focus on the definition of legalism and how to break free from it.

Shepherd's Community Church - 09/10/2023 - Listening to the Law In Galatians 4:21-5:1, Paul does a deep dive into a familiar Old Testament passage, to demonstrate how even the Law of God teaches that salvation is only in Christ.