St. Luke Columbus

This Ash Wednesday, Pastor Steve kicks off a new midweek series titled, "Celebration of Discipline". This message sets the stage for an indepth look at five of the spiritual disciplines described by Richard Foster. We hope you'll come away from this series with a greater understanding of how practicing spiritual disciplines can grow your faith, and incorporate these disciplines into your everyday life. Sermon Outline Lessons: Psalm 42:1-2, 7-8, Galatians 5:16-26, and Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18.

Today is Transfiguration Sunday and we are concluding our sermon series titled, "Christ Is Sufficient." We hold up the truth that our God is suffient for us as he comes to us personally and extraordinarily in prayer when we cry, Abba, Father. Lessons: Isaiah 49:13-16a, Galatians 4:1-7, and Mark 9:2-9.

God has not only saved us, raised us, and redeemed us for eternity, he has called us to conform to His likeness here on Earth. He has given us the Spirit to prompt and sanctify but our hopes, prayer and desires are to be constantly turned to a purpose of sanctification here on Earth.  Readings: Leviticus 19:1-11, Romans 12:1-2, and John 13:31-38.

Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off. God will step in when we are not drowning or dying, but rather dead and breath new, everlasting life into us. We will take away a greater understanding of our reality before and after the Breathe of the Spirit was breathed into us! Lessons: Ezekial 37:1-14, Ephesians 2:1-7, and Luke 7:11-17.

Christ, in his humanity, provides us with the only successful construct for Christian spirituality. Jesus emptied himself by taking the form of a servant. This submission to the Father's will necessitated Jesus to live in total dependence upon the indwelling Holy Spirit. The Spirit-led and empowered Messiah lived in perfect obedience to the Father and, in so doing, communicated the life of the Father in Him through the Holy Spirit.    After hearing this message, we hope you will surrender your will to God and live in obedience to His Word.   Lessons: Deuteronomy 18:15-20, Philippians 2:5-11, and Mark 14:32-42.

The previously invisible God has been manifested in Christ. The universe exists and operates according to the One who made it and He has been revealed in the Son. The meaning of life and the significance of that meaning is centered in Christ. The foundation for Christian spirituality is Jesus Christ.  We hope you will live everyday with the meaning of life that Christ provides. Lessons: Philippians 3:4b-11 and John 1:43-51

This sermon will introduce the series "Christ Is Sufficient" with the understanding that Christ is sufficient because he is God. The baptism of Jesus is the first understood manifestation of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit at one time. This teaches us that Jesus is fully God.  We hope you will accept that Jesus is enough because he is fully God and that we do not need to look for another. Lessons: 2 Corinthians 12:7-9 and Mark 1:4-13

Our greatest wisdom and revelation is simply knowing God. To know God is to know the hope of His calling, to know that we are considered His valuable inheritance and to know the immeasurable greatness of His power.   Lessons: Ephesians 1:15-19 and Matthew 16:13-23

The Angel's first word's to the terrified shepherds was, "Fear not!", the same words spoken to Mary. The perfect love of God, manifest in the birth of Jesus, takes away our fears.  This Christmas we hope you will begin to let the perfect love of God in Christ take away your fears.  Lessons: Luke 2:1-20 (RSV) and 1 John 4:1-5, 15-18a

Jesus came as our Lord and king, to establish God's kingdom which brings radical obedience. This radical obedience we see in both the prophet Isaiah and the Virgin Mary. Radical obedience we live out when God call us.  Gospel lesson: Luke 1:26-38

When God's kingdom comes, sick people are cured, disable people are made whole, demon-possessed individuals are freed, and even the dead are raised. In short, God's kingdom brings healing.      Lessons: Isaiah 61:1-3, James 5:13-16, Mark 1:21-34

When God's kingdom comes into our broken world, social, economic, and political justice for the poor and the oppressed are fostered.   Today's Gospel lesson comes from Luke 1:39-56

John the Baptist came preaching, "Repent for the kingdom of heaven is near!" When God's Kingdom comes to us, it leads us to true repentence. In this message, Pastor Steve outlines three phases of true repentence. Repentence in our thought, in our heart, and in our behavior.  Today's Gospel lesson comes from Matthew 3:1-12.

When God's Kingdom comes into our lives, we reevaluate our material wealth to see it not only as our ultimate security but rather as a resource to help others.   Gospel lesson: Mark 10:17-31

God's Kingdom has already come through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Yet, we continue to live in the tension of the "already come - yet to come" Kingdom of God as we wait for the Second Coming of Jesus. This message will focus on what the Bible has to say about The Second Coming of Jesus.

When we consider all that God has given us, our obvious response is to give him thanks. This week our Youth Pastor, Greg Osborne, will conclude our sermon series by focusing on how we give God our thanks by unleashing his love to meet the hopes and hurts of others.

When we consider all that our good God has done for us, our obvious response is to give thanks. Today, as we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving Sunday next week, we're going to learn helpful moves in being generous when we're giving God thanks with our treasure. Scripture lessons: Malachi 3:6-10, 2 Corinthians 9:6-8, Matthew 25:14-30

When we consider all that our good God has done for us, our obvious first response is to give Him thanks.   We are beginning a new sermon series today entitled, "Give God Thanks" and we're very excited to have our good friend David Drees here to kick off the series. In this month of thanksgiving it is appropriate for us to explore more deeply how and why it is that we give God our thanks.  

Throughout his ministry, Jesus taught with words and by his own example that in God’s economy those who are considered blessed are not those we would expect to be lifted up as people who are blessed and noteworthy. It is the little, the least, the last, the lost, and the dead who are lifted up as blessed saints. Today Pastor Steve explores how we don’t become saints through heroic actions, but rather we are lifted up as saints through being forgiven our sin and brokenness.   If you would like to follow along with the sermon outline for this message, please visit our website: stlukecolumbus.com/messages. We apologize for the little pops and crackles in the sound audio this week. We are working to fix the problem. 

Through his death and resurrection, Jesus sets us free from our bondage to sin, death, and the power of the evil one. On this Reformation Sunday, Pastor Steve refreshes this basic understanding of the Christian faith, what we call the gospel message.