Speaker Pastor Matthew Ude 
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
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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
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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
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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
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Jesus Did Not Leave Us
Saturday April 4, 2026 Text: John 14:18-24 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Easter Passages: John 14:18-24
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The Wooden Cross
Friday April 3, 2026 Text: Colossians 2:13-15 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Good Friday Passages: Colossians 2:13-15
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Water and Blood
Thursday April 2, 2026 Text: 1 john 5:5-12 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Maundy Thursday Passages: 1 john 5:5-12
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HE COMES
Saturday March 28, 2026 Text: Psalm 118:19-29 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Palm Sunday Passages: Psalm 118:19-29
Jesus rides into Jerusalem to be our king. Not a distant king, but a king who rules over every part of our life. Tom Holland is historian who recently wrote a book titled Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World. I haven’t read the book yet, but I have heard a couple of lectures
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Palm Branches of Victory
Wednesday March 25, 2026 Text: Revelation 7:9-17 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Lent Passages: Revelation 7:9-17
The Palm branches that you hold in your hands are a reminder that Jesus is king. They are a reminder that he is victorious, and that therefore you are victorious. The palm fronds remind us of victory, joy, life and peace through Jesus who lives and reigns in all eternity. The book of Revelation begins
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THE WAY OF SUFFERING
Saturday March 7, 2026 Text: Matthew 4:1-11 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Lent Passages: Matthew 4:1-11
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