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Sermons from Sunday worship at First Presbyterian Church of Colorado Springs are available on Monday or Tuesday after they are delivered. We welcome you to visit us in person in downtown Colorado Springs, online at www.firstprescos.org or on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (@firstprescos).
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On Palm Sunday, Jesus came into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey. Many crowded around singing “Hosanna!” Everyone wanted to see Jesus. Can you see Jesus? In this conversation with Nicodemus, Jesus says something has to happen before you can see. You must be born again from above, born again spiritually, fundamentally transformed and regenerated. Like a baby that opens its eyes for the first time, when you believe in Jesus the Spirit of God opens your eyes to see. People ask, “Am I enough? Do I have what it takes?” Nicodemus would never earn his way into heaven. We need need Jesus, we need God to open our eyes so we can see. Speaker: Tim McConnell
Jesus was forceful about removing the marketeers from the House of the Lord. The disciples were no doubt embarrassed and concerned. I wonder if they made up excuses for Jesus. “Honestly, He’s never like this!” Love and truth are connected. Sometimes love looks like this. Love removes what is damaging and perverse to return your life to right relationship with God. Jesus is willing to stand for truth. People today want to ask, like Pilate did, “What is truth?” Jesus stood for truth and love; grace and truth. Truth is out there. “Truth reveals reality, and reality can be described as what we humans run into when we are wrong, a collision in which we always lose.” (Dallas Willard) Speaker: Tim McConnell
Jesus turned water into wine. Jesus loved being Jesus. He must have! Look at how much fun He has. It was not a parlor trick. It reveals how invested Jesus is in people and the problems they have. Jesus is invested in us the same way. We ask, “Do all people matter to God?” Here is a seemingly insignificant young couple getting married. Jesus cared enough to expose His power and threaten His agenda. All people matter to God, and all their worries and cares matter too. God loves people all the way down. Speaker: John Goodale
All for Love: Trust Me

All for Love: Trust Me

2024-03-0335:00

When Jesus called His disciples to follow Him, they were moved to drop everything and follow. The conviction was immediate. We have a hard time trusting. Trust is a big deal. You have to earn it. It takes time to build up and can be destroyed in an instant. How did these men and women trust Jesus so quickly? People ask “Can I trust you?” They want someone to trust. Jesus is worthy of all our trust. His love and faithfulness are sure. Speaker: Tim McConnell
God took on flesh in Jesus to become for us the perfect sacrifice of atonement. Jesus came to give His life away in order to rescue us from sin and death. Other gospels tell us all about Bethlehem, where faultless lambs were bred and raised for sacrifice in the Temple. John washed the surface of a person with water. Jesus is the only one who can die for us and make us clean. People want to know, “Will you accept me?” Jesus’ sacrifice ensures the answer is yes. Why would the Son of God agree to become the sacrificial lamb? All for love. Speaker: Tim McConnell
The coming of Jesus, the very incarnation of the Word of God, is a mission of love. God so loved the world. God did not leave His disobedient creation to suffer the eternal consequences of its own rebellion and sin. God did not leave this world to fall into the corruption of its own making. God came. God entered. God took on flesh and walked into our world, full of grace and truth. People want to know, “Am I safe?” There is nothing safe about this world, but God has come to save. Speaker: Tim McConnell
Activated Disciples know what their ministry is. It’s not just about learning more and more information. It’s about serving Christ on mission in this world. Every member has a ministry. What is your ministry? Paul says to see him as a servant of Christ entrusted with mysteries revealed by God. We have been given a trust. How will you use it? The Core is those members who have found their ministry. They have been equipped. They are Active Disciples because they are using their gifts for the Kingdom. Speaker: Tim McConnell
Disciples need deeper discipleship. Worshipers gather on Sunday to experience the joy of worship, but do they grow from milk to solid food? Worship is not a 1-hour a week thing. We belong to Jesus as Disciples. Have you taken a next step? Do you read the Bible at home? Do you pray outside of church? Do you worship God wherever you are? A disciple wants to be like Jesus in everything they do. They are committed believers who need to be edified, built up, given deeper knowledge and love of Jesus to spill out into 7-days a week faith. Speaker: Greg Hartnett
Worshipers need community to begin to grow into disciples. New believers have so much to learn. They are like infants drinking milk. We need the milk of Christian community. Learn how to be together, from all walks of life, and be part of a community of faith, the family of God. These are people who need to be encouraged in Christian community. This is the congregation encouraged to build community. How’s our linger meter? In the garden of Christian community discipleship begins to grow. Speaker: Tim McConnell
Participants have stepped into the stream of the Jesus community, now they need to learn how to worship. These are people who need to be invited to exalt the Lord. We gather this crowd in services of worship and lift up Jesus among them so they can see and know the Lord. Paul told the Corinthian church there was just nothing higher, nothing more important, nothing more glorious than “Jesus Christ and him crucified”—the gospel of Jesus and what he did to save. We are a worship first church. Speaker: Tim McConnell
Community Members hear something about Jesus and his community, his followers. These are people who need to be Evangelized. We reach them through outreach. The believers in Corinth were entrusted with a remarkable mission—reaching people who were very different from Judeo/Christian values. Speaker: Tim McConnell
We sing songs of heaven today. Like a foreigner or immigrant who still sings the folk songs of her native land, we sing the songs of our coming Kingdom. We know them already. The Spirit has ingrained them in our hearts. When heaven comes down, these songs will fill the earth as the water covers the seas. Heaven is singing right now. Can you hear it? Can you join in the song? Speaker: Greg Hartnett
Speaker: Jamal Sarikoki
The shepherds were captured in a song of heaven. The chorus of angels appeared in the sky. Suddenly there was an inbreaking of heaven in their ordinary lives. Something interrupted and captured everything in the light of God. The song of heaven broke into the realm of earth. Can you hear the song of heaven? Can you hear the music of God? Can you respond in song? If you are in Christ, if Christ is born in you, you have a song to sing. The song of heaven invades your earth tonight. Speaker: Tim McConnell
But are you happy? What is your deepest longing? What have you been waiting to see from the core of your being? For Simeon, it was the fulfilment of a promise that one day he would see the “consolation of Israel.” I have seen the Lord! Nunc Dimittis, now dismiss your servant in peace. What would it take to say the same? To say, the Lord has provided for me and I am glad. Speaker: Tim McConnell
Zechariah speaks for the prophets about the prophetic work of John the Baptist. John will accompany the prophets in preparing the way for the Lord. When Kings traveled, roads had to be built before them to allow them to come with all their retinue. John the Baptist, and all the prophets before him, call on us to prepare the way for the Lord. Lower the high places, raise the lowered places. Make his paths straight. Zechariah sings that the Lord has come—not just a prophet, or a judge, or a man, but God himself. John, his son, will prepare the way as a prophet. Sing a song of joy. God is on the move. Speaker: Tim McConnell
Mary’s song is sometimes called The Magnificat. My soul magnifies the Lord, she sings. Like many “songs” in scripture, it doesn’t necessarily say that she sang it, but the text is so lyrical and balanced it quickly became a song in the church if it wasn’t one originally. Mary’s song is a reminder of God’s faithfulness through history. God has intervened in the past. God will intervene again. God is intervening right now, and He has power to topple any obstacle and turn over any power. There is no question of God’s power. The question is will He move, will He act, will He come just as He promised? Speaker: Tim McConnell
Insta: InstaPeace

Insta: InstaPeace

2023-11-2235:00

How does a peacemaker make peace? Like a parent short on patience you could be tempted to simply yell, “Stop it!” But that’s not real peace. That’s not lasting peace. Peace, it is said, is not the absence of conflict but the presence of justice and righteousness. Shalom. The world made right as God intended. The world gives a promise of a kind of peace. Take three breaths as your Apple watch vibrates on your wrist. Open your Calm app and travel inside to another place away from the turmoil of the present. Okay. But is there truly peace that endures? Will peace come to the world? Jesus gives peace in a different way; not as the world gives. It might not be insta, but it's good. Speaker: Michael Thornton
Insta: InstaLove

Insta: InstaLove

2023-11-1935:00

Swipe left for love. Or is it right? I don’t know. But I do know this: love grows sweeter with time. Can there be love at first sight? Yes. But romantic fascination only turns into life-giving love with commitment over time. Marriage is an opportunity to grow longstanding love. So is friendship. The church is a housing for the development of longstanding love. The long and faithful love of God for his wayward children is our enduring model. Speaker: Tim McConnell
Insta: InstaJoy

Insta: InstaJoy

2023-11-1235:00

There are many offers of instant joy, instant happiness, instant satisfaction. They never satisfy. Jesus is invested in your joy. Jesus is sacrificially sponsoring of your joy and happiness. It doesn’t come with the instant solution, but with humble obedience to the Lord’s Word over time and variable experience. Abide with the vine, Jesus, and watch joy emerge from the deepest and darkest roots under the soil of common, everyday life. Speaker: John Goodale
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