The Gospel of Luke shows a side of Jesus that the early church must have missed. Luke’s attempt was to give the early Christian community the story so that they might know accurately that the things they were taught were helpful.

Today Christianity has told the story of Jesus to a culture rejecting the call to discipleship. However, people love Jesus, but not the church (as was so accurately expressed in Kimball’s book by the same title and Kinneman’s classic Unchristian) due to the fact that we have fallen short in manifesting the true Jesus to our communities.

Jesus Unleashed is a sermon series that will call us to rekindle our faith and search again for the Jesus who is truly the Friend of Sinners and Tax Collectors. In finding this Jesus we too can follow and walk like he did in a world seeking safety in God.

January 8: The Righteous Remnant
January 15: The Little Ones

Agape Sermons from Marriage Series, Conferences, or other Lessons

Discipleship, Marriage, and Seeing Women, Agape Sermon on the Mt. Series, Summer 2011

My Friend, My Lover, My Kingdom Partner: Crazy Love Conference Vancouver, WA

Connecting: A Series on Relationships, Agape Fall 2010 series

KPAM Interview with Ron and Lori Clark on Abuse and Marriage

In Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount, Jesus becomes the new Moses. As Moses climbed the mountain to meet God, so the disciples climed the mountain to meet their God Jesus. As God spoke the law (Torah) into existence, so Jesus spoke the teachings of the disciples.

The Sermon on the Mount continues to challenge us today, as it did 2000 years ago, to seek God in a world needing light, guidance, and love. To be a disciple of Jesus is to emulate his teachings and bring glory to God and light to a world needing hope, peace, and love.

April 24: ReJesus
May 1:Will You Climb the Mountain to Hear Jesus?
May 22: Be not Do Attitudes
May 29: Salt and Light
June 5: True Righteousness
June 12: Relationships With Others
June 19: Dads for Jesus
June 26: Marriage and the Kingdom of Jesus
July 3: Free to Love Our Enemies
July 10: Living Dangerously, by Shawn Anderson
July 17: Beware the Actors Guild
July 24: Where is our Focus?
July 31: Striving to Enter the Kingdom
Aug 7: Jesus is Lord

God has a desire for us to be free. It seems that today there are so many things clamoring for our attention. Our schedules are hectic, our hearts are divided, or our energy is gone. Other things clamor to control us, to enslave us, or to take away our will to live. Yet God has called us to downsize by serving only one. God’s desire is that we might be free from sin, free from oppression, and free from the hopelessness that tells us we are worthless.

God has not only called us to freedom, God gives us the opportunity to leave these chains behind and fully embrace and experience divine love, acceptance, and hope. At Agape Church of Christ we believe that God calls all people to worship through Jesus.

When they heard that Yahweh was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed and worshipped… Exodus 4:31

Let my people go so that they may worship me… Exodus 8:2

January 30: God Hears
February 6: God Responds
February 13: Holy Spirit Comforter: Frederick Berry
February 20: Hard Hearts Resisting God
February 27: The Passover: Allyn Bradley
March 6: The Joy of Freedom
March 13: Meeting God in the Wilderness
March 20: Meeting God on the Mountain
March 27: Meeting God at the Temple
April 3: God in the Mosh Pit
April 10: God the Hero
April 17: Radiating God’s Glory
April 24: ReJesus = Also at Jesus the New Moses

 

Sermons:

Nov 21: Creation Genesis 1
Nov 28: Suffering and Healing Psalm 42-43
Dec 5: Restoration Matthew 3
Dec 12: Redemption John 4
Dec 19: Righteousness Matthew 25

 

People need relationship. They need connection. Not only is this important in a walk with Jesus, it is necessary in a relationship with others.

This sermon series discusses our need to be connected with God and others. Our connections with others involves healthy relationships in friendships, family, marriage, dating, and as a community of faith. These lessons on relationship call us to seek connectedness in our lives and the lives of others.

My Friend, My Lover, My Kingdom Partner: Crazy Love Conference in Vancouver, WA.

September 12: Acceptance
September 19: Surviving the Marriage Fog (Dr. Bob Whiddon)
September 26: Complements in Relationship
October 3: Intimacy in Relationship
October 10: Am I Sleeping With the Enemy? (WAV format) (MP3 format)
October 17: The Joys of Connectedness
October 24: Marc Andresen Campus Minister

Our Core Values at Agape are:

• Agape (unconditional love)
• Relationship
• Empowerment

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The following sermon series is a study of the post-exilic prophets. This will be published as The God of Second Chances, in 2011.

The God of Second Chances: Series on the Prophets (2010)

 

Freeing the Oppressed Domestic Violence Series
   1.  Freeing the Oppressed: Isaiah 61
   2. Amos 2: by Marc Andresen
   3. Justice for Tamar: 2 Samuel 13

 

Sermon Series: I am Loved by God. This series was recorded by the International Churches of Christ and is available for free. On this link click “Ron Clark” as speaker and sermons will appear.