Jesus has been handed over to Pilate, the Roman Governor with authority to carry out the punishment the Jewish leaders desire. In this sermon Noel teaches us how we’re prone to choose a different Jesus than the messiah of the New Testament and how we can faithfully interact with a politically secular world.
In Matthew 24:36-25:13, Jesus continues his Sermon on Signs with 4 stories about how to find oneself ready upon his second coming. Noel Piepgrass shares how readiness involves Accepting Jesus as Lord, Adopting Jesus’s way of living, and Advocating for Jesus to the world around us. (The first 10 minutes of this recording were not recorded live and had to be added in afterward.)
Ephesians 3 ends with Paul praying one of the most powerful prayers in scripture. In this message, Megan Piepgrass shares about how God has worked in her life over time to move the deep truths of God from her head to her heart.
IIn this scene from the Garden of Gethsemene, the gospels depict Jesus’s overwhelming sorrow as he faces the reality of his impending death.
Michael Seaward shows us why this agony was so intense and what we can learn from the prayer it led Jesus to pray.
On Easter Sunday, Noel Piepgrass shares from 1 Peter 1:3-4 how Jesus resurrection brings us into a living hope for both now and later.
In Matthew 12:50, Jesus says that anyone who does the will of his Father in Heaven is his family. Noel Piepgrass took the opportunity to talk about Exeter Valley Church’s Core Identity as a Family on Mission with God. In this message, Noel breaks down some of the implications and imperatives of seeing the church as a family.
In the first part of a 7 week series on the end of Jesus’ life from the Gospel of Matthew, Noel shows us how Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper as a means of demonstrating God’s plan of salvation through his atoning work on the cross.