Summit Ridge Sermon Podcast

April 28, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker James 4:11-12 Matthew 5:21-22 Matthew 5:27-30 Matthew 3:31-37 Proverbs 6:16-19 Socrates: “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.” Ephesians 4:29-32 Mother Teresa: “These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to want to manage other people's affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. To pass over the mistakes of others. To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one's dignity. To choose always the hardest.” (NET)

April 21, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker "When divisions are rife in religion, it is bound to happen that what is in men’s minds will soon erupt in real conflict. For while nothing is more effective for joining us together, and there is nothing which does more to unite our minds, and keep them peaceful, than agreement in religion, yet if disagreement has somehow arisen in connection with it, the inevitable result is that men are quickly stirred up to engage in fighting, and there is no other field with fiercer disputes." -John Calvin "What! At peace with the Father, and at war with His children? It cannot be." -John Flavel "Divisions in the church always breed atheism in the world." -Thomas Manton "The cause of sin is never so much helped as when Christians waste their strength in quarreling with one another, and spend their time in petty squabbles." -J.C. Ryle James 3:13-4:6 "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live" -Oscar Wilde ”Nothing is bloodier than a religious war. Issues aren’t just as human squabbles; everything is elevated to eternal importance… How tempting… to mistake our will for God’s. How devilish to believe that disagreeing with me is disagreeing with God.” -Marshall Shelly James 4:7-10 Romans 7:15 (NET)

April 14, 2024 Associate Pastor Eric Burch James 3:1 1 Corinthians 12:27-28 James 3:2 Genesis 3:12 Romans 313-14 1 Peter 3:10 James 3:3-4 The Tongue is the Master Key for Keeping Our Whole Body in Check. James 3:5a The Tongue has Enormous power to do Harm. James 3:5b-6 Matthew 16:22-23 The Tongue is Humanly Uncontrollable. James 3:7-8 Acts 2:2-4 We struggle with Consistency. James 3:9-12 Romans 7:21-24 Matthew 12:33-37 (NASB 2020)

April 7, 2024 Associate Pastor Louise Waller James 2:14-16 Faith without action is dead Matthew 25:41-45 Action without faith is dead Matthew 7:15-23 Faith and Action are one Galatians 6:7-8 Ephesians 2:8-10 Faithful Action bears good fruit (NIV)

March 31, 2024 "Why is Easter Sunday Still Relevant?" Associate Pastor Justin Brunenkant "What Does it Mean to be Born Again? Associate Pastor Eric Burch "The Physical Resurrection" Associate Pastor Louise Waller "Without the Resurrection Nothing Else Matters" Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker

March 24, 2024 Associate Pastor Justin Brunenkant James 2:1-13 Galatians 3:26-29 1 Peter 3:3-4 (NKJV)

March 17, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker I CAN’T ANGER MY WAY TO RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS! James 1:19-21 “Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.” -Aristotle Proverbs 17:28 “There is a kind of listening with half an ear that presumes already to know what the other person has to say. It is an impatient, inattentive listening, that despises the brother and is only waiting for a chance to speak and thus get rid of the other person…But Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer I CAN’T FAKE MY WAY TO RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS James 1:22-26 To serve one another by following the example of Jesus Christ ensuring others are seen, heard, valued, and cared for as deeply valued members of God’s family and this church. 1 Peter 4:8-11 I CAN OBEY MY WAY TO RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS James 1:27 “The real act of, say, building a friendship or creating a community involves performing a series of small, concrete social actions well: disagreeing without poisoning the relationship; revealing vulnerability at the appropriate pace; being a good listener; knowing how to end a conversation gracefully; knowing how to ask for and offer forgiveness; knowing how to let someone down without breaking their heart; knowing how to sit with someone who is suffering; knowing how to host a gathering where everyone feels embraced; knowing how to see things from another’s point of view.” -David Brooks (NET)

March 10, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker James 1:9-18 Galatians 3:28-29 (NET)

March 3, 2024 Associate Pastor Eric Burch James 1:5-8 NASB What does the Bible mean by Wisdom? Luke 2:52 Matthew 13:54 Acts 7:22 1 Kings 3:9 1 Kings 3:11-12 What does James say here about God? James 1:5 Psalms 103:8 Matthew 7:9-11 Matthew 7:7-8 What does James say about our sincerity? James 1:6-8 Matthew 21:20-22 John 17:20-21 Colossians 2:6 (NASB 2020)

February 25, 2024 Associate Pastor Louise Waller James 1:1-4 Trials of many kinds …To Test Our Faith Hebrews 12:1-3 “…Let us run with…" "Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when you get diagnosed with cancer or when you have to declare bankruptcy or when you just lost your job or when you just got served divorce papers. How we think about tests and challenges will determine the outcome they produce in our lives. Tests and challenges can utterly ruin people or renovate them. We are not to be broken by the trials but broken by God in the midst of trials. To be broken by God means to be healed of our sick and willful ways of dealing with life. To be broken by God means to finally come to the place where we can admit that we do not have what it takes; that we have exhausted our resources, are at the end of our rope, and that we are poor in spirit. It means to finally be brought to the place where we are ready for an entirely new way of living life—God’s way, filled with God’s power, moment by moment. This is how our faith is perfected." -J.D. Walt Reward: Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self-Control 1 Peter 1:3-7 (NIV)

February 18, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker "I believe that every Christian ought to be joined to some visible church; that is his plain duty, according to the Scriptures. God’s people are not dogs, else they might go about one by one; but they are sheep, and therefore they should be in flocks." -Charles Spurgeon “The Church needs more people willing to wash feet, not just point out they're dirty or complain that they smell.” -Mark Hart Revelation 3:14-22 "Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul." -A.W. Tozer "We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God's, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior." -John Stott (NET)

February 11, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker “Family is the one human institution we have no choice over. We get in simply by being born, and as a result we are involuntarily thrown together with a menagerie of strange and unlike people. Church calls for another step: to voluntarily choose to band together with a strange menagerie because of a common bond in Jesus Christ. I have found that such a community more resembles a family than any other human institution. Henri Nouwen once defined a community as “a place where the person you least want to live with always lives.” -Philipp Yancey Revelation 3:7-13 (NET)

February 4, 2024 Associate Pastor Eric Burch Joel 2:12-13 Revelation 3:1-6 Revelation 3:1 James 2:14-17 Revelation 2:2-3 Mathew 10:22 Revelation 3:4 Revelation 3:5-6 (NASB 2020)

January 28, 2024 Associate Pastor Eric Burch Revelation 2:18-19 Revelation 2:20 1 Kings 16:30-32 Joshua 1:8 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Revelation 2:21-23 Revelation 1:16 Matthew 18:6 Revelation 2:24-29 Psalm 2:4-9 Matthew 13:41-43 (NASB)

January 21, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker (Due to technical difficulties, approximately the first three minutes were not recorded.) “As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name." -Philip Yancy “Persecution for Christians is not a possibility, it's a promise, it's not a maybe, it's a surely! Following Jesus can mean finding the trouble you've been looking for!” -Kingsley Opuwari Manuel: Revelation 2:12-17 Matthew 15:11 “Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,..." -CS Lewis (NET)

January 14, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker “The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.” -John Calvin Psalm 94:3-7 Revelation 2:8-11 “Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took that so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous.” -Tim Keller “Persecution for Christians is not a possibility, it's a promise, it's not a maybe, it's a surely! Following Jesus can mean finding the trouble you've been looking for!” -Kingsley Opuwari Manuel 1 Peter 5:10 Hebrews 10:25 (NET)

January 7, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker Revelation 2: 1-7 (NET)

December 31, 2023 Associate Pastor Louise Waller Associate Pastor Eric Burch Millie Ethier Worship Pastor Deborah Murphy Lead Pastor Dan Acker Psalm 148 (NET)

December 24, 2023 Associate Pastor Justin Brunenkant Psalm 96:1-13 (NKJV)

Associate Pastor Eric Burch December 17, 2023 James 3:13-17 NET Which Do You Want To Be? Psalm 126:1-6 Psalm 126:1-3 Daniel 4:3 Isaiah 61:1-4 (NIV) Psalm 126:4-6 Which Do You Want To Be? Romans 5:8 “Let our hearts gratefully remember the lovingkindness of the Lord; we were sadly low, sorely depressed, and completely past hope, but when Jehovah appeared He did not merely lift us out of depression, He raised us into wonderful happiness. The Lord does nothing in halves; those whom He saves from Hell He brings to heaven. He turns exile into ecstasy and banishment into bliss.” -Charles Spurgeon. Romans 15:13 (NIV) (NET)