Woodland Hills Church
Woodland Hills Church Sermons Get the most recent sermon audio and video from Woodland Hills Church. Located in St. Paul, MN, our goal as a church is to tear down walls between social classes, genders, races, and most of all, between people and Jesus Christ. ...
Woodland Hills Church Sermons Get the most recent sermon audio and video from Woodland Hills Church. Located in St. Paul, MN, our goal as a church is to tear down walls between social classes, genders, races, and most of all, between people and Jesus Christ. Many other resources (including sermon study guides, presentation slides and our entire sermon archive dating back to 1992) are available for free on our web site. Most sermons are by our Senior Pastor, Greg Boyd.
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Kingdom Centeredness
Drawing from Luke 9:23 and 14:25-27 & 33, Greg talked ...
Drawing from Luke 9:23 and 14:25-27 & 33, Greg talked about dying to the flesh so that we might have true life in Christ. Life in the 'flesh' means that we cling to life outside the center (Jesus Christ), which results in our lives enslaving us, something God never intended! Jesus speaks strongly about this because he knows that when we finally let go and "die" to ourselves, we will find life in the center where there is peace and a whole new perspective on the world!
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Some Dance to Remember, Some Dance to Forget
Thorsten Moritz, a Bethel Seminary professor, opened with this challenging ...
Thorsten Moritz, a Bethel Seminary professor, opened with this challenging question: 'Are we prepared to live 'creationally' (in tune with the Creator) in a world of idolatry?' Focusing primarily on child adoption throughout the message, Moritz wondered if the abandonment of the world's waiting orphans experience is the result of this idolatry. It reveals, he argued, that people are operating with the wrong priorities. How prepared are we to be the primary tool of God's recovery of this fallen creation? Just as God adopted us, shouldn't we (biblically) adopt others?
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The Kingdom's King
Lately, Greg has been talking about the importance of being ...
Lately, Greg has been talking about the importance of being "awake" and "single-minded." In this sermon he discussed how both of these things are understood most fully in Christ. He focused on Christ's compelling love and the distinction between saying that you believe something and allowing a truth to penetrate so deep into your very being that it compels you.
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Kingdom Single Mindedness
Willing just one thing, the love of God, is our ...
Willing just one thing, the love of God, is our only task. Our hearts are pure and our minds are sound when we overcome the double-mindedness that we unconsciously live in by submitting to God (James 4:7). Greg called our attention to how our minds are caught up in routines that produce behavior that is harmful to ourselves and others. Working toward kingdom single mindedness moment by moment will focus our energy where it should be: on the love of God for us and on loving ourselves and others because of it.
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Kingdom Consciousness
Greg compares life to a "magic eye" picture: if we ...
Greg compares life to a "magic eye" picture: if we focus on the immediate appearance of things, life is very busy and active, even chaotic. But if we are able to see what's in the depth of life, we begin to see Jesus. We see the love of God manifest in ways and in places that we might never have thought possible. We begin to develop 'an eye for the kingdom of God,' or what Greg calls 'Kingdom Consciousness.' To behold the kingdom of God requires an intentional awareness.
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Stop Going to Church
Paul and Sandra's message called for a major shift in ...
Paul and Sandra's message called for a major shift in thought for many of us: church isn't a place you go or an event you attend. Instead, church is what happens when those who follow Jesus gather and live in unity and obedience to who Jesus is and what Jesus does. Both speakers discussed the effects of this new perspective.
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Write It on a Rock
Greg described his journey during his sabbatical as one that ...
Greg described his journey during his sabbatical as one that was focused on a simple and important question: 'What is real?' And he talked about how every now and then we all need to ask ourselves this with regard to every area in our lives. He challenged us to think like Job, who lost all of his securities and worldly relations but who still knew that his redeemer lived and that he would see him someday face to face. That's what Job REALLY believed. What do we REALLY believe?
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The Best is Yet to Come
Cecilia, visiting from The Sanctuary Covenant Church, challenged Woodland Hills ...
Cecilia, visiting from The Sanctuary Covenant Church, challenged Woodland Hills to look back in order to gain insight about what might lie ahead for us. Are our best days behind us, or is our best yet to come? She argued the latter by referring to a passage in Haggai that deals with rebuilding Solomon's temple. The new temple was far less grand than the original, yet the promise of God remained: this temple's glory would exceed that of Solomon's. Its best was yet to come, but the remnant, like Woodland Hills, could only believe this by faith-trusting that God would accomplish the promise.
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I Choose You
Kevin, our Community Pastor, spoke about Christ's calling of Simon, ...
Kevin, our Community Pastor, spoke about Christ's calling of Simon, Andrew, James and John to be his disciples. As fishermen, their families' livelihood depended on this trade, yet they simply dropped what they were doing and followed Jesus. Why? What was it about Jesus that caused people to leave their families and livelihood to follow him, and what was Jesus tapping into in these four early disciples?
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Descending Into Greatness
Using Matthew 20:20-28 as his text, David discussed how to ...
Using Matthew 20:20-28 as his text, David discussed how to be a 'safe' leader by following Jesus' example of leading by serving and how this upside-down principle truly reflects the kingdom of God.
