FULL OF LIFE – Pentecost Sunday

Saturday May 23, 2026 Text: Acts 2:1-21 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: Acts 2:1-21

MAY THE LORD OPEN YOUR HEART

Saturday May 16, 2026 Text: 1 chronicles 28:9,20 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Confirmation Passages: 1 chronicles 28:9,20

When I was eight or nine, I had the perfect plan. Across the road from our house was a park and in that park was a glorious machine that dispensed soda. Although we had some of our own money we weren’t allowed to spend it on soda. But this day was Father’s Day, and I

Tuned To Christ

Thursday May 14, 2026 Text: Luke 24:44-53 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Ascension Passages: Luke 24:44-53

My father once told us the story of his music teacher. She took a tuning fork and struck it, “That’s middle C.” she said, “It was middle C a thousand years ago. It will be middle C a thousand years from now, no matter how flat you sing. So, Ude get in tune with it

His Loving Service

Sunday May 10, 2026 Text: John 14:15-21 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Easter Passages: John 14:15-21

Verse 15 — 15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments. Love is revealed in service. This isn’t so much a command from Jesus as it is a simple statement of fact. If you love me, the result will be that you will keep my commandments. Love is revealed in service. A mother’s love is

The Lord Prepares You to Die

Saturday May 2, 2026 Text: Acts 7:51-60 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Easter Passages: Acts 7:51-60

It can be very shocking when a main character dies in a movie or in a book. Especially when it is a character you identify with. You always expect the hero to come back. You always expect the author to find some way to bring them back. Sometimes, however, even in stories they don’t come

The Good Shepherd Opens the Way Through the Wall of Our Sin

Saturday April 25, 2026 Text: John 10:1-10 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Easter Passages: John 10:1-10

I had a first as a father this week. My daughter Kaylee and I were playing IN the parking lot. She loves to play a very slow version of tag. I walk away and she pushes her wheelchair to come get me. We have been playing it for a couple years without any problems. Last

The Privilege of Sons

Saturday April 18, 2026 Text: 1 peter 1:17-25 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Easter Passages: 1 peter 1:17-25

In college when I delivered furniture, I once delivered a brand-new sofa and love seat to a customer’s house. Before we could drop off the new stuff we moved their old couch down to the basement. Their old couch was a filthy disgusting, uncomfortable thing. They now had a new clean sofa set. About a

THE RESURRECTION EFFECT

Sunday April 12, 2026 Text: Acts 5:29-42 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Easter Passages: Acts 5:29-42

For a long time, astrophysicists were quite certain of the existence of black holes, even though they had never seen one directly. The truth of their existence was deduced by the effect they have on the objects around them. Similarly, long before they ever found Pluto, they knew it was there because of the effect