We love our community! We’re inviting Hinsdale and anyone who lives nearby to join us for a fun time to celebrate the end of summer. Award-winning barbecue, a great DJ, a bouncy house, and good vibes all around. Join us on August 25 from 5-8 PM at 201 N. Oak St in Hinsdale (the lawn…
Easter 2024 – A Life More Powerful than Death (Romans 5) Geoff Ziegler, March 31, 2024 https://youtu.be/SXBGDmWHFaw?si=F18ilPfwiGJKBhGW Part 1: Our Failure This morning, I want to talk about a gift—about God’s amazing gift to us. But to get there, I first need to talk about our failure. Jennifer and I lived in Sydney, Australia for…
Growing Together as we Offer Ourselves to God (Romans 12, Part 5) Geoff Ziegler, March 24, 2024 https://youtu.be/b7IY39dNaUo?si=1M95LQeh3YiGV0AV For the past month during Lent, our focus has been on what we might call the central “hinge” of Romans. For 11 chapters Paul has been explaining the Christian gospel of what Jesus has done to rescue…
Please join us as we come together to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus. Maundy Thursday (Thursday, 7 PM): Guided by readings from the gospel of Mark, singing hymns focused on the cross, and celebrating the Lord’s Supper together, we’ll join for a solemn, yet hopeful, time of reflecting on Christ’s death for us.…
How We Offer Ourselves to God (Romans 12, Part 4) Geoff Ziegler, March 17, 2024 https://youtu.be/–u8bCo-Auk?si=4uM782PRpeshP0Z3 I want to start by thinking about where we’ve been to this point. For the last few weeks, we’ve been focusing on a single biblical instruction: “Offer your bodies to God as a sacrifice.” The first 11 chapters of…
Finding Through Losing (Romans 11 & 12, Part 2) Geoff Ziegler, March 3, 2024 https://youtu.be/WcQf3rI7L8I?si=cTGl07ayAQnOEX7Z Last week, we said that if you understand the gospel, if you understand Christianity, one response will increasingly make sense to you. One response to the gospel will increasingly describe the way you live your life. You will, more and…
Presenting Our Bodies to God as a Sacrifice (Romans 11 & 12, Part 1) Geoff Ziegler, February 25, 2024 https://youtu.be/txMmORNusu4?si=GAEX_Xrh_IfTDt8C Many years ago in college I was taught that if you want to understand the argument someone is making in an essay or a book, sometimes it can be helpful to go straight to the…
The Good News (Romans 3, Part 2) Geoff Ziegler, February 11, 2024 https://youtu.be/siEThmfTme4?si=7_nC_I3d4QNge_3s When a group of Christians are discouraged because they feel like they are failing, or they have doubts, or they are divided, they need to be strengthened by the gospel. This is the conviction that drives the letter of Romans. Knowing the…
The Evil of Disordered Worship (Romans 1, Part 3) Geoff Ziegler, January 28, 2024 https://youtu.be/HzGZ31ulzak?si=T8yOWq0dJtDAcPI1 Last week if you weren’t here with us, we began considering how Paul in Romans orients us to the story in which we are living. We are part of a big, transcendent, mysterious world; there is a cosmic battle that…
Locating Ourselves in God’s Great Story (Romans 1, Part 2) Geoff Ziegler, January 21, 2024 https://youtu.be/G1JCyBgz8CQ?feature=shared Our Need for Story Every week as I prepare the sermon for that Sunday, one of the questions I constantly feel the weight of is quite simple. Is this practical? I’m a big picture thinker, and I know one…