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Kristen Packard returns to discuss joy.

Carolyn Sherman shares about her experiences with Haiti and the hope we have in Emmanuel, God with Us.

Vince Lenoir shares about Micah as we continue our Guest January series.

Dan Davis puts the magnifying glass to the lives of Joseph, Moses, David, and Peter.

Sheridan Amerling takes a look at the twelve days of Christmas.

Bryan Amerling concludes our Advent series.

David Henderson explores the concept of being without home.

Derrick Scott III returns to continue our Advent series, “Without.”

Eric Williams kicks off our Advent series with a look at a world without peace.

Bryan Amerling comes to a stopping point in our look at Acts, and looks ahead to our Advent series.

Steve Hart explores a fresh perspective on Acts 17.

Bryan Amerling continues our series on Acts.

Derrick Scott III visits to discuss the idea of calling.

David Henderson looks to the book of John to find out about the identity of Jesus.

Bryan Amerling explores the nature of coincidences.

Chris Kuhn stops by to investigate the nature of conflict in Acts.

Please enjoy our entire last 1509 service, including Brandy Henderson, Bryan Amerling, and David Henderson’s look at O For A Thousand Tongues to Sing.

David Henderson continues our series on Acts and our look at grace.

Mike Edwards reviews the writing of “Amazing Grace.”

Bryan Amerling continues our look at Acts with this exploration of grace.

David Henderson explores the Ode to Joy

Nettie Cribb swings by to discuss being in the Spirit.

David Henderson discusses the movement of God.

Bryan Amerling addresses Luke’s shift to the story of Paul in Acts.

Bill Sherman explains what an ebenezer is as he teaches on “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.”

Bryan Amerling kicks off our Wednesday night 1509 series by discussing the Doxology.

Scott Adams visits to talk about priorities and pride.

Kristen Packard visits to share on the topic of fear.

Bill Sherman returns to teach on angels.

David Henderson wears his candy cane tie in the middle of July.

David Henderson drops in with some news about what’s going on in the 1510 community.

David Henderson discusses the healing of Aeneas and the raising of Tabitha.

On 31 May 2009, we talked about the idea of the Good News in specific contexts, inspired by this series. We assigned similar writing as homework, and are pleased to share the results with you. This comes from Olivia Wolfe:

Where do I see God at work throughout my life??

I see God through bad situations. I know that God is typically associated with positive, happy situations. However I personally think that when a situation is terrible, we strive for God more frequently. This may not be the best thing, but I believe it is true.

I also think that people tend to collaborate with one another and be more willing to help out in bad situations. I think that through people caring about one another, I see Christ and his will being done; more than I see it anywhere else.

That’s where I experience God the most: the opportunity taken to help others.

Olivia Wolfe

On 31 May 2009, we talked about the idea of the Good News in specific contexts, inspired by this series. We assigned similar writing as homework, and are pleased to share the results with you. This comes from Ernie Boada:

The Good News is the love God has for us, which we receive everyday.

God created us for a love relationship with Him.

His love, let us not take it for granted, as it is His gift to us.

Ernie Boada

On 31 May 2009, we talked about the idea of the Good News in specific contexts, inspired by this series. We assigned similar writing as homework, and are pleased to share the results with you. This comes from Lisa Brott:

Luke 7:37-38

“In that town was a woman who lived a sinful life. She heard that Jesus was eating in the Pharisee’s house, so she brought an alabaster jar full of perfume and stood behind Jesus, by his feet, crying and wetting his feet with her hair, kissed them, and poured the perfume on them.”

I am a perfectionist with Pharisee tendencies. On the plus side, that means I’m always trying to do the right things. On the down side, it becomes law to me and on many occasions I have become paralyzed with anxiety and worry from the question, “what should I be doing at this exact moment.”

The kingdom of God is not based on good works, but on faith. Luke 7:50 “But Jesus said to the woman, ‘Your faith has saved you; go in peace.’” The good news for me is that Jesus accepts any humble offering, even the “ill gotten gains,” so I don’t have to fear the “what if” consequences my actions may produce.

Lisa Brott

On 31 May 2009, we talked about the idea of the Good News in specific contexts, inspired by this series. We assigned similar writing as homework, and are pleased to share the results with you. This comes from Jennifer Highsmith:

The good news is that God is with us and all around us. The Bible tells us “that that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38-39)

Nothing can separate us from God and His love for us: Neither height nor depth, nor angels, nor demons, nor anything at all. I have faced, and am still battling many of my own demons, but the grace of God tells me I am not alone - ever - and that He will always love me. No matter what. The silver lining is that I have turned my back on God before and learned the hard lesson that His love is so powerful that I cannot resist His beauty and grace. And I am so glad that I have returned to His flock.

Now I know that no matter how deep the hole I am in feels, or how wide, His angels are protecting me and I will be victorious against my demons and all of my struggles. I have faith and that is my good news.

Jennifer Highsmith

Bryan Amerling rallies from illness long enough to teach about Acts 8&9.

Eric Williams stops by to teach on the conversion of Saul.

Brandy Brooks explores the story of Simon the Sorceror.

David Henderson concludes the first section of Acts with this talk about the good news.

Bryan Amerling concludes our discussion of Stephen.

Melanie Evans teaches about Stephen’s speech.

Bryan Amerling begins our look at Acts 6.

Bill Shuck returns to teach about new life.

David Henderson discusses the book of Joel and Acts 2.

Bryan Amerling uses a clip from The Matrix to illuminate a spiritual truth from the book of Acts.

Eric Williams visited us last year to preach on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday.

We revisit Bryan’s teaching on Palm Sunday from 2008.

Steve Hart returns to continue our series in Acts.

If you have Twitter, make sure to follow us, @1510lakewood. Send us a tweet…we’ll be trying to keep a conversation going there about what we’re up to, and we want to hear from YOU.

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David Henderson explains what Transformers could possibly have to do with Acts 4.

Enjoy a bonus song from 1510! Here’s “Baby Boy” from our Advent service in December.

Brenda Spargo stops by to teach about the power of Jesus’ name.

Bryan Amerling provides an introduction to the book of Acts.

Bryan Amerling concludes the prayer series by discussing mission.

Gloria Short returns to teach about the role of relationship in prayer.

David Henderson continues our prayer series by touching on humility.

Bryan Amerling kicks off our series on prayer by discussing restoration through prayer.

Create in me a clean heart oh God
Let me be like you in all my ways
Give me your strength, teach me your song
Shelter me in the shadow of your wings
For we are your righteousness
If we die to ourselves and live through your death
Then we shall be born again to be blessed in your love

We revisit last year’s message on Ash Wednesday and Lent. Check back during the next forty days for more Lent Rewinds!

In the First Sunday podcast from 1 February, Bryan mentioned some art that we have displayed in the 1510 room. In July, when we discussed The Apostles’ Creed, we asked everyone to write on index cards the line of the creed that was making the biggest impression on them on that particular morning. From those cards, this word art was created. It is hanging in the 1510 room–be sure to come by and check it out!

The 1510 team leads us in a celebration of our one-year anniversary and a discussion of this year’s vision.

Check out 1510lakewood.com to view the video referenced in this teaching by David Henderson.

This video was shown prior to David Henderson’s message “Geese and the Approach the Scripture.”

Laura Jacqmein visits to teach about the parable of the workers in the vineyard.

Chuck Chambers shares about why we don’t always tap into the power that God promises.

Bryan Amerling wraps up his look at the book of Romans.

Bryan Amerling kicks off a two part blitz through the book of Romans.

Special online bonus–”Light of Those Whose Dreary Dwelling,” from our Advent service on 21 December. Happy New Year!

Hello to anyone who might stop by here to read this.  I just wanted to give you a quick update on what you might anticipate for the next two weeks.  After this “With” series for Advent, I almost feel like anything will be a bit of a letdown as I’ve thoroughly enjoyed what we’ve been able to experience together the past four weeks, and I hope you have too.  However, another Sunday will arrive and we will gather again at 8:30am for 1510 so I thought I would share a bit of what I will be teaching the next two weeks.

The book of Romans is often considered the definitive letter written by the Apostle Paul.  Many believe it details more thoroughly than any other work, his theology and perspectives on Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection.  What often gets lost in the discussion is the focus that Paul has on his Jewish and Gentile audience.  In following our themes of the past few weeks of reconciliation with God and each other, we are going to take a look at the overall themes of Romans and see if we can pick out a bit of what Paul was after.  Most of this I think will help us gain a little better understanding of how we can approach reading Paul’s letters, but we will also look at how some of these discussions can affect us today.

I hope you’ll be able to make it and that you will feel free to ask questions or comment as we go along, both at the service and here on the site.  Thanks!

Bryan

Bryan Amerling teaches on how Jesus wants us to interact with each other.

David Henderson discusses the incarnation.

Bryan Amerling interviews Natalie Ruge, and then discussed the concept of “with child” to kick off our Advent series.

The date of the night service was listed here as 14 December; please note that it is 21 December. We don’t want to miss you!

Hi! We’re in the midst of our 2008 Advent series, entitled With. So far we have discussed “With Child” and “God With Us.” The podcasts for these two weeks will be up soon, so keep your eye out, or be sure to subscribe through iTunes.

Please join us as we conclude this series! This Sunday, 14 December, we will be discussing “With Each Other.” The next Sunday morning, 21 December, we will be with the service in the sanctuary as we celebrate Christmas with the music department’s cantata.

We are very excited about our special night service that night, Sunday, 21 December. We hope you will join us for a free chili dinner in the Fellowship Hall at 6:00, and we will start our service in the 1510 room at 7:00. Please put this on your calendar, and make a point to invite someone who has not had a chance to see what 1510 is all about.

Podcasts for 30 November and 7 December will be posted soon. We hope you are having a fantastic Advent season!

Bill Fleet stops by to teach on faith.

An organization called Soles4Souls is trying to raise enough money in 50 days to give 50,000 pairs of shoes to people in need. The shoes can be purchased at a rate of 2 pairs for $5, and the process is stunningly easy. The link is: http://www.50000shoes.com/

Please check it out, donate, and tell some friends!

Carol Hudson visits to teach on three key parables.

Bryan Amerling teaches on the farming parables.

This week I was struck by the enormity of grace that God has given, and is continually giving, us.  The cost at which He has shown us mercy is overwhelming.   I have always heard this parable and thought I could never be like the two men that simply pass by the man left on the road for dead.  Who could do that?  Who could be heartless enough to leave someone beat up on the side of the road? 

After learning more about the costs the priest and the Levite would have had to endure to touch a dead body:  retuning to the temple for another week, missing their families, loss of offerings and a week’s worth of income, humiliation to pronounce their defilement at the city gates… stopping to help seemed like a much bigger sacrifice.  Would I be able to make that choice?  Suddenly mercy comes at a much higher price than simply making a call to 911.  It requires more than merely stopping to help.   

Jesus is trying to show us that mercy is not easy.  He’s calling us to completely put aside our own needs for the needs of others – even some of our most basic needs.   I encourage you to accept the grace God is freely offering us and to look for ways to bestow that grace on others – even when it may cost you embarrassment, money, or even time.

Sorry for the delay in posting the notes this week!

-Pastor Sherman’s teaching was based in Luke 10:21-37. He also mentioned Leviticus 19:18, Deuteronomy 6:5, and James 4:17.

-The blog post he mentioned can be found here.

-The pictures of the Jericho Road that Pastor Sherman passed around can be found here and here.

-We played “Give Me Your Eyes” (Brandon Heath) during Communion, and we sang “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” (Robert Robinson) and “I Could Sing of Your Love Forever” (Delirious?) together.

-We showed this video to start the service:

Bill Sherman returns to talk about the parable of the Good Samaritan.

-The song played over the countdown was “Mysterious Ways” by U2.

-The audio story that we played to start the service is available for streaming here. The show that David mentioned featuring Robert Krulwich, the reporter from that story, is RadioLab.

-David mentioned two books in the message. Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton is in the public domain, and available for free viewing or download here, and can also be purchased here and in most bookstores. Faith and Doubt by John Ortberg is available here and in most bookstores. An audio message by Ortberg that includes much of the information in the book is available for free download for a limited time here.

-We sang “Famous One” by Chris Tomlin; “You are So Good to Me” by Waterdeep; and “God of Wonders” from the City on a Hill compilation.

-All songs were led by this guy:

David Henderson discusses mystery and faith.

I hope people enjoyed David’s teaching on “mystery” this past Sunday.  I know that mystery is something that I used to dismiss as somewhat irrelevant to faith, that good old fashioned cold hard facts were the only thing upon which to base my faith.  A while back I taught on the back end of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and looked at how we build our faith, upon sand or upon rocks as Jesus describes it.  During that  teaching I spent some time showing how science has changed its take on the nature of the universe on a pretty regular basis.  Things we thought we knew we suddenly didn’t know one day.  The mystery of the universe remains but it can be a good thing.

So anyway, this got me thinking about how Jesus spent so much time trying to tell people of the Kingdom of God, but he did it in parables (and we’re going to start exploring parables over the next four weeks).  Jesus, for some reason, didn’t spend much time giving cold, hard facts about the Kingdom of God.  Rather he told stories and used metaphors to help the people understand what God was doing throughout creation and how they were to be involved.  These stories spoke of forgiveness, mercy, love, justice, relief, and challenge.  Had Jesus just listed the attributes, the profundity of the Kingdom would have been lost.  But these stories gave/give glimpses of something that was happening but wouldn’t be finished until Jesus returned.  There was a present significance to his teaching but also an eschatalogical aspect (a look at the end of things; evil, injustice, suffering, pain, etc.).  Which brings me to my point.

Notice in Scripture how much time Jesus spends describing the Kingdom of God.  Notice in the prophets how much time the writers spend describing the Kingdom of God and the heavenly realms.  Notice also how little time is dedicated to describing hell.  You won’t find mention of it in the Old Testament and Jesus spends almost no time discussing it.  Now, think about how vivid the idea of hell is in our minds.  We (humanity) have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to describe hell.  Dante is certainly a big part of that but it goes forward from there.  And while our vivid descriptions of hell abound, we have this vague, barely described notion of heaven, of God’s present and coming Kingdom, in our present literature.

Here’s where mystery is so great.  I think part of the reason mystery is so profoundly moving and wonderful is that Jesus and various writers of the Bible use the mystery of God to point to the glory and beauty of all that God is doing.  Not that hell isn’t real or even important, but it is never the motivator for following God.  The call to be a part of the Kingdom that is now and is still coming, a kingdom filled with love, beauty, harmony, and peace, that is the call of the mystery.  The mystery of God calls us to pursue Him, to know Him, to love Him, and in turn to love all those He created.  It’s something so beautiful that we can’t help but pursue it with our hearts because as we catch glimpses of it, we know that there is more to come and we can’t wait to experience it.

Bono of U2 spoke of his early childhood growing up in Dublin where he said you could literally tell if a person was a Catholic or Protestant based on what street they lived.  And he watched the violence between these groups claim the lives of friends and family.  But, he held onto the hope that his faith gave him and he wrote the song “Where the Streets Have No Name” to reflect that mystery of faith and hope.  Though peace wasn’t at hand and it was hard to understand how God was at work, the dream of a coming King who would bring peace was not lost:

“I want to run, I want to hide,

I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside

I want to reach out, and touch the flame,

where the streets have no name.”

Let the mystery of God propel us forward with hope and passion.

During the prayer exercise this week we played two songs that I think are nothing short of absolutely stunning; I could listen to them over and over again and never get tired of them. The first is “The Lines of My Earth” by Sixpence None the Richer, and the second is Sixpence’s “Melody of You.” (You really should grab the entire records on which these songs appear–”Lines of My Earth” is on Sixpence None the Richer, and “Melody of You” is on Divine Discontent, an absolute steal for just $8.97!)

We wanted to use these songs after Melanie’s talk about emotional worship, because these are the types of songs that seem to scream out with emotion just like the Psalms do. “The Lines of My Earth” comes to us from a place where “the well has gone dry.” How well do we know that place! I love the song’s refrain, though–”This is the last song that I write/’Til you tell me otherwise/And it’s because I just don’t feel it” strikes me as so heroic, at least partially because I don’t believe it. This is us when we come to the place where we don’t think we can walk another step, the place where we don’t feel like exerting the effort to make our lives the praise offering that God so infinitely deserves. But we do take one more step. “One more step,” we say, “But this is the last one!” It is within God ourselves that we find the strength to take the second step, to write the next song after this one.

And we know that we were right not to believe Sixpence, because “Melody of You” resides on their next record. They were obviously told otherwise. “Melody of You” comes from a place where worship not only comes easily, but it is our only option. Its chorus is similarly telling: “This is my call, I belong to You/This is my call to sing the melodies of You/This is my call, I can do nothing else.” How beautiful to know that God is “a simple tune/I only write variations to,” and that we have no other options but to sing that tune–we can do nothing else.

These songs are beautiful. The contrast between them is beautiful. Please buy these records if you think you will enjoy them; I promise that you will not be disappointed.

-David

-Melanie Evans walked us through Psalm 51. She also mentioned Mark 12:30, the book of 1 Samuel, and Psalm 55.

-We did a prayer exercise with Communion. The songs that we played during this time were “The Lines of My Earth” and “Melody of You” by Sixpence None the Richer. The prayer exercise was built on a passage written by Don Chaffer of the band Waterdeep that appears in the liner notes of their record You Are So Good To Me (currently out of print). The prayer cards we made from that passage and the psalms are available for download and printing here (gift, rope, bell)

-The songs we sang together were “Now That You’re Near,” by Hillsongs; “Here I Am To Worship,” by Tim Hughes; “Beautiful One,” by Tim Hughes; “Open The Eyes of My Heart,” by Paul Baloche.

Melanie Evans teaches about David and Soul Worship.

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here is the text of the poem that Olivia Wolfe shared with us on Sunday:

Olivia’s Anthem
I believe that through confiding in Christ all my insecurities and weaknesses will be replaced with strength and courage. I will devote myself and life to living as his disciple. Through him all things can be done. Nothing is too small or too big for him. I will not be consumed by negative or evil presences. He is the only one who can satisfy my soul’s every need. I promise to work through him.
Savior I love you.

Written by Olivia Taylor Wolfe
On 07-31-08 on Mystery Weekend at Hannah Park

-The video that Bryan used to bookend his teaching can be found here, in the videos section. It is entitled “The Truth.”

-A great video recounting the passage that Bryan used (Romans 8) can be found here. Be sure to check it out!

-The song that was played during Communion was “Good Good End,” by Waterdeep. You can download the entire Waterdeep record here, either by telling five friends or by paying any price you wish.

-The songs we sang together were: “Not to Us,” Chris Tomlin; “Love the Lord,” Lincoln Brewster; “Holy is the Lord,” Chris Tomlin; “Here I Am To Worship,” Tim Hughes.

-The benediction we used can be found here.

Bryan Amerling discusses Romans 8, and Olivia Wolfe shares a poem.

David Henderson explores Experiential Worship in the areas of strength worship and physicality.

Brandy Brooks continues our series on Experiential Worship with this teaching about worshipping with our choices.

Robby Rhoden checks in to kick off our Experiential Worship series.

Bryan Amerling teaches about redemptive movement.

Steve Hart visits to share about leadership in the kingdom.

David Henderson shares about social justice and evangelism.