Sycamore Sermons

This week at Sycamore, Randy talks about listening to people's hearts through our interactions with them. How can we see past the words that we hear, and really understand what motivates those words, and then respond appropriately?

This week we take some time to remember that we need to have compassion on people in our lives, because we have all come from a position of needing a savior. Just because we have found salvation does not mean that we are in any way superior to anyone else. We cannot save ourselves, and so instead of looking down on others, we should show them the love that has transformed us.

Tonight Randy takes some time to encourage us to expand the vision of our prayers. So often we pray for the "little" things, requests in our own lives. But God really wants to answer our big prayers, kingdom prayers. When we pray our big prayers, we demonstrate how big we actually see God.

Tonight Randy speaks on some of the ways that the church has made the gospel message lose its focus on Christ. Often times, many of the things we do are more focused on the one time event being important, rather than the relationship with the Father. The events need to be milestones in our relationship, a symbol of our transformed lives, rather than the main objective.

This week we start our new series "Among Us", a study in incarnational missiology. All that to say, we are exploring the significance of the fact that God can and dwelt among us on earth, and the impact that fact should have on our lives. We are called to relationship with people, to meet them where they are at, and show them how we have been transformed by personal, intimate knowledge of our savior, rather than trying to sell them Jesus.

This evening Randy talks about sex as God's gift to a married couple. This gift has been distorted and abused by society, but what is its true intent?

Tonight Nate Hawkins speaks on the concept of a godly marriage. What does it actually mean to be one flesh, and how does God view marriage?

In the series Blue and Pink Elephants we examine the intricacies of men and women from a spiritual perspective. To start off, Steve Price talks about God's character, since we are made in His image, and how the fullness of God is expressed in man AND woman together. So what are some of the characteristics of God that we can also see modeled in humanity?

Tonight we take a look at what it means to be created as a woman. What aspects of God do women portray, and how has this position been attacked in our society?

Tonight we take a look at what it means from a spiritual, Biblical perspective to be a man. God has given men the primary responsibility to stand firm, protect, and lead towards relationship with the creator.