August Gate Church

This week we begin with our first identity, family. Our sin has made us God's enemies but the Gospel makes us children. In the same way sin has separated us from one another but the Gospel restores those relationships and makes us family.

As we begin a new series looking at our identities at August Gate we must start with the "What" and the "Why" of the church. This week we take a look at the "Why" and also the "What" of the church gathered.

The Gospel is simple for us to hear. God is our good creator, we are His rebellious creation, Jesus is our redemption and He is coming back to make all things right for us. Jesus is risen indeed but do we believe that in our hearts?

We wrap up The Gospel of Genesis series this week with one question: is Jesus the center of your life?

The life of Joseph is an epic story that wraps up Genesis. Sold into slavery, wrongly accused and thrown into prison but eventually used for good and reconciliation. We learn some very important things about our lives in the midst of tragedy and how Jesus leads us with the Gospel through it.

Continuing with Jacob's story we learn that the deceiver gets deceived and his unlikely wife Leah gets caught in the middle. In the midst of scandal and brokenness Leah finds worth and beauty in God. This story points directly to Jesus because he reaches down into our brokenness and brings beauty through His sacrifice on the cross.

In this week's text we see the story of two brother's in competition and conflict even before they were born, but we see no clear example, no hero. Both Jacob and Esau were sinful, messed up men who are not worthy of emulating. But in the midst of this, the story points to Jesus as God's unmerited and undeserved grace.

In this week's text we see a final test of faith for Abraham, the sacrifice of his beloved son Isaac. Through this we continue to see the faithfulness of God in the midst of test and trial. In the same way that God provided the sacrifice for Abraham and Isaac on top of Mt. Moriah, he has also given us Jesus, the Lamb who died so we don't have to.

In this week's text we see Abraham, father of the Hebrew nation, a man who's faithfulness is counted as righteousness, promised and tested. And while he is faithful we also see many times he is faithless but that God is always faithful. This narrative is in fact about God's faithfulness to Abraham and Abraham's faithfulness to repent to God.

This week's text is probably one of the most well known Bible "stories" and the danger comes when we look at it as that and not as a part of the story of redemption. The focus of this narrative is not that God judges but the fact that God saves.

Cain's approach to worshipping God is in complete contrast to that of his brother Abel and instead of receiving God's rebuke as grace he murders his brother in cold blood. Through this story of the first murder we see many things as they pertain to worship, rebuke and repentance, sin and consequences, mercy and grace, and ultimately Jesus.

For our new series we start at the beginning of it all, creation. Pastor Noah walks us through 7 acts of creation and the fall pointing us to the truth of the Gospel in each of them. (We apologize for the background music on this recording, some wires were crossed.)

In this week's sermon, Pastor Noah gives encouragement and challenge to women as he looks at what God's word tells us they should be like in Proverbs 31 and how they should function in Titus 2:3-5.

In this week's text we see Paul instructing Titus to find and challenge men. Pastor Noah urges us that we don't need just a few good men but God desires for all men to be good. Listen as he challenges our men and men everywhere with the truth of God's Word.

On this New Year's Day, Pastor Noah Oldham shares vision for the year ahead. At the core of that vision are three foundational goals centered in the Gospel that we see from our text in Titus.

The overarching theme of the Advent story is love, God's love for us and His desire to see us be reconciled to Him through the name and work of Jesus Christ.

We see in our text this week Mary's response to what God is doing in her life, she responds with joy and in total obedience. What we learn for ourselves is that when you realize the Gospel is for you, your response is joy.

In this week's text we see the peace that only Jesus brings as Mary is told that she would fulfill a seven hundred year old prophecy. This text has real life implications and applications especially in this crazy holiday season.

This week we begin our celebration of Advent. From our text in Isaiah we see that there is no hope outside of the Gospel.

Because of Jesus we can be confident worshippers, siblings, and missionaries. This confidence displays our belief in the supremacy of Jesus in our lives and helps us heed John's final command: keep yourselves from idols.