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Ephesians 4:15 – 16 | A Truth Filled Community

February 13, 2026 / joemarino / 0 Comments

Here we are in week six of our study regarding what it means to be the church family. We have spent the last five weeks focusing on different aspects of who God has called the church to be and what God has called the church to do. We’ve learned that the church is called to be a disciple making community, a devoted community, a generous community, a united community, and a gifted community. This week we’re going to be thinking about what it means to be a truth filled community.

Ephesians 4:7 – 14 | A Gifted Community

February 6, 2026 / joemarino / 0 Comments

How often do you look in the mirror and recognize the gift that you are to everyone around you? Listen, I get it, seeing yourself as a gift probably feels a little awkward. You might even be concerned, that to see yourself as a gift could be prideful. But the opposite of that could be equally prideful, especially if God says that you are a gift.

Ephesians 4:1 – 7 | A United Community

February 1, 2026 / joemarino

This week marks the fourth installment in our series on what it means to be the church. Up until this point we have studied what it means to be a disciple making church, a devoted church, and a generous church. Today we will be looking at what it means to be a united church. Look at the text with me.

Acts 4:32 – 37 | A Generous Community

January 23, 2026 / joemarino

This is the third installment in our series on what it means to be the church. In the first installment, we studied what it means to be a disciple making church family. In the second installment, we studied what it means to be a devoted church family. This week we are looking at what it means to be a generous church family.

Acts 2:42 – 47 | A Devoted Community

January 16, 2026 / joemarino

Let me start us off with a question today. What do you think it means to be the church? It should not be a stretch to say that the church is not a building or a program, it is a group of people who have been saved and sent by Jesus.

Matthew 28:16 – 20 | A Disciple Making Community

January 9, 2026 / joemarino

We are beginning a new series today entitled, “The Family” and my aim with this series is for us to hear from God’s Word on what it means to be the church. I have spoken often in my preaching about the shortcomings of the church in the west as well as the unbiblical influence of a westernized, consumer-driven society.

1 Samuel 22:1 – 5 | Distressed, In Debt, Bitter In Soul

December 28, 2025 / joemarino

As we jump back into our study of 1 Samuel today, we find David still running from King Saul as well as the Philistines whom he had tried to find shelter with, in the last chapter. God’s chosen king is running for his life; he is suffering in ways that seem foreign to our modern understanding of Christianity which treats Jesus like a gene in a bottle and treats the church like a gumball machine.

Christmas ’25 | John 1:14 – 18 | Light in the Darkness Part III

December 23, 2025 / joemarino

This is the last sermon in our three-part series on John 1:1 – 18. In the first two sermons, I laid out some of the cultural issues that were present in John’s day as he painted the picture of who Jesus is. I also tried to build a bridge of application from that culture to our culture today. In everything I have preached so far, my desire has been to stay faithful to the text, while applying it to modern day believers and unbelievers alike.

Christmas ’25 | John 1:6 – 13 | Light in the Darkness Part II

December 21, 2025 / joemarino

We started our mini-Christmas series last week by looking at the first five verses of John’s gospel, where he began to give us an astounding description of Jesus that is very different from the other gospel accounts that we have from Matthew, Mark, and Luke.

Christmas ’25 | John 1:1 – 5 | Light in the Darkness Part I

December 14, 2025 / joemarino

Well, here we are, Christmas is upon us once again! Christmas is a beautiful time of year that, for many people, is full of joy and celebration. For others though, Christmas is just another reminder of all that is wrong with the world and all that is broken in our lives.