Sermons & Notes

MP3 Audio & Sermon Notes

Our recent sermons are available on-line in MP3 format. Learn more about the MP3 format.

Pastor Stan Rukin (pictured below to the right) has delivered all the sermons other than those otherwise noted.
We suggest that you download the MP3 files as you'll want to play them again or share them.
Where available, sermon outlines and Small Group notes
are provided in PDF format.
Be notified when the current sermon is available.

This Week's Sermon

Worship
(Emmanuel Zihovi)

Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.
- Psalm 95:6-7.
- Download the 08May04 Sermon
  (9.8 MB, 34:23)

Emmanuel Zihovi is the ACOP Moderator of Zimbabwe, Africa.

Biannual Missions Weekend

The following two sessions were presented at our Biannual Missions Weekend ethnic potluck supper:

Download the 08May03 Missions Address by Emmanuel Zihovi (7.2 MB, 25:19)
Download the 08May03 Missions Address by Ed & Donna Pahl (3.2 MB, 11:"06)

Recent Sermons

Personal Testimony
(Joe Demetrius)

Download the 08Apr27 message
(4.2 MB, 14:46)

Developing Your Spiritual Growth Plan:
Worship

Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.
- Matthew 4:10.
- Download the 08Apr20 Sermon
  (11.0 MB, 38:41)

Developing Your Spiritual Growth Plan:
The Practice of Community

Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.
- Hebrews 10:24 (New Living Translation).
- Download the 08Apr13 Sermon
  (11.6 MB, 40:41)

Developing Your Spiritual Growth Plan:
Serving Others

After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his deciples' feet.
- John 13:5.
- Download the 08Apr06 Sermon
  (12.3 MB, 43:00)

Developing Your Spiritual Growth Plan:
Hearing God's Voice

Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails!
- Psalm 51:12.
- Download the 08Mar30 Sermon
  (11.3 MB, 39:41)

His Resurrection Will Renew & Fill Your Life

On the evening of that first day of the week, when the deciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!"
- John 20:19-23.
- The 08Mar23 Sermon will not be available.

The Coming King

The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"
- Matthew 21:1-11.
- The 08Mar16 Sermon will not be available.

The Just Shall Live by Faith

The righteous shall live by faith.
- Habakkuk 2:4.
- Download the 08Mar09 Sermon
  (8.7 MB, 30:31)

Why Does God Call Us Apart?
(Richard Veerapen)

…in order that you may live a life worthy of the way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God….
- Colossians 1:10.
- The 08Mar02 Sermon is unavailable.

Life's Missed Appointments
(Marcel Kurtz)

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
- Psalms 23:5.
- Download the 08Feb24 Sermon
  (8.0 MB, 28:02)
- Sermon Notes (PDF)

Developing Your Spiritual Growth Plan:
The Practice of Prayer: Part 2

Lord, teach us to pray.
- Luke 11:1.
- Download the 08Feb17 Sermon
  (10.4 MB, 36:21)

Developing Your Spiritual Growth Plan:
The Practice of Prayer: Part 1

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
- 2 Corinthians 3:17.
- Download the 08Feb10 Sermon
  (10.1 MB, 35:20)

Developing Your Spiritual Growth Plan:
Bible Intake Part 2

But his delight is in the law of the Lord and on his law he meditates day and night.
- Psalms 1:2.
- Download the 08Feb03 Sermon
  (9.3 MB, 32:36)
- Sermon Notes (PDF)
- Links to Daily Devotionals

Note: Earlier sermons have been removed.

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PDF Format

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