Sermons

Acts 1-2 | 4/28/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Pastor Matt gives an overview of the birth of the Church in Acts 1 and 2, which chronicles how the Lord Jesus Christ began to fulfill his word to build his church. This message will cover how the church began, how it grew, and what our role today in the Lord’s mission. All hands on deck!

Luke 4-5, 14 | 4/21/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. As Pastor Matt has preached the gospel of Christ's death and resurrection on Good Friday and Easter, he now turns to the question of what happens after we put our trust in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation. We become disciples - that is, learners and followers of Jesus. What does it look like to be faithfully following and flourishing?

Matthew 28:16-20 | 4/14/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Pastor Matt preached on Good Friday and Easter Sunday about Christ's death and resurrection. Last week, he taught us the first part of Matthew 28, more on the resurrection of Jesus. Today, he teaches us from the rest of Matthew 28, where Jesus commands us to go out into the world. But He also stays with us and gives us the power to carry out His mission.

Matthew 28:1-15 | 4/7/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. As a follow-up to Easter, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus the Christ, we learn more about His resurrection from Scripture in the last chapter of the gospel according to the apostle Matthew.

Luke 24 | Easter | 3/31/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Pastor Matt preaches the glorious resurrection of Christ on this Resurrection Sunday.

Psalm 22 | Good Friday | 3/29/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Pastor Matt preaches on Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus, His atonement for humanity's sins.

John 11:55-12:36 | Pastor Matt Jones | Palm Sunday, March 24, 2024. In our study through the book of Esther, we learned that the festival of Purim was established as part of that narrative. This year, Palm Sunday and Purim fall on the same date. How are they linked?

Esther 8-10 | Faithful to Fulfill, Part 23 | 3/17/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Pastor Matt concludes the Book of Esther by emphasizing the grace of God to protect His people, even when His people neglect Him and disobey Him. How gracious is the Lord!

Esther 7:1-10 | Faithful to Fulfill, Part 22 | 3/10/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones.

Esther 4:1-6:13 | Faithful to Fulfill, Part 21 | 3/3/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Mordecai, having provoked the murderous and Haman to start a genocide against the Jews in Persia, now pressures Esther into trying to influence the king. Many role reversals show that God is ultimately in control of the situation.

Esther 2:19-3:15 | Faithful to Fulfill, Part 20 | 2/25/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. We continue our Faithful to Fulfill series on Israel's history after the exile to Babylon with the continuing story of Esther. This week, we see how Mordecai, having gained inside information to thwart the king's assassination, then makes an enemy of Haman. Haman then manipulates the king into ordering the genocide of Jews in Persia.

Esther 1:1-2:18 | Faithful to Fulfill, Part 19 | 2/18/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. "Faithful to Fulfill" is Pastor Matt's study of God as revealed in post-Exilic Scripture, namely the Old Testament books of Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. The Exile refers to the captivity of the southern Jewish nation of Judah by the world power Babylon for 70 years, and subsequent release by the Medo-Persian Empire under God's sovereignty and providence. In the opening two chapters of Esther, we see men exercising oppressive power over women for nefarious desires and agendas. How will God use for good that which others have intended for evil?

Acts 17:26 and Other Scriptures | 2/11/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Last week, our guest speaker Dr. Tuvya Zaretsky preached on “Why Israel Still Matters.” This week, Pastor Matt builds on this foundation with “Why the Nations Matter.” What is God’s plan for the nations in coordination with Israel? With the Super Bowl today that attracts nations around the world to watch our culture, it is a unique Sunday for us to consider how Christ’s church and the people of Israel are used by God to attract a much bigger global audience to display something far greater than American football, that is, the Savior of the Nations—Jesus the Christ.

Our guest preacher Tuvya Zaretsky of Jews for Jesus tells us why Israel still matters. The modern state of Israel has been in the news a lot in recent months with the attack by Hamas and its counter-attack. Tuvya will explain why Israel matters in God's unchanging, eternal plan. Because God chose Israel. Because God shows His love and loyalty in His relationship with Israel. Because God proves His character to Israel His people.

Psalm 121-122 | New Year, Same Ol’ Thing, Part 4 | 1/28/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Pastor Matt continues through this series emphasizing our commitment to God’s everlasting ways rather than newfangled trends. With this in mind, this message explores the way ahead in the New Year with all of the new Sundays that our great and gracious God has given us for our good and His glory.

Psalm 139 | New Year, Same Ol’ Thing, Part 3 | 1/21/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Pastor Matt teaches through Psalm 139 and discusses some implications that is pertinent to today's culture. Even in a new year, we celebrate the immutable, triune God who is omniscient (all-knowing), omnipresent (everywhere), and omnipotent (all-powerful).

Various Scriptures | New Year, Same Ol’ Thing, Part 2 | 1/14/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. In part two of this study, Pastor Matt continues to admonish Del Rey Church in 2024 to stick to the same ol’ plan God has clearly laid out in His word, preach the Gospel.

Various Scriptures | New Year, Same Ol’ Thing, Part 1 | 1/1/2023 | Pastor Matt Jones. Happy New Year! As we embark on a new year, Pastor Matt wants to remind us that even though we’ve turned the page on a new year, Del Rey Church intends to keep proclaiming the same gospel of God, from the same Bible of old, about the same Lord and savior, Jesus Christ.

Luke 2 and other Scriptures | Christmas Christology, Part 5 | 12/31/2023 | Pastor Matt Jones. In this conclusion to our Christmas series, we explore the early years of Jesus and what His earthly life means for humanity. What was the purpose of the Word of God becoming incarnate, and how does this relate to us?

Various Scriptures | Part 4 | 12/24/2023 | Pastor Matt Jones. It's Christmas Eve! Christmas, of course, is about a baby being born. A birth doesn't happen without conception. And in this special, indeed unique, case, the conception happened in a virgin. Why did God make that happen? How do we know it is historically true and not a fairy tale? Why is it important that Jesus was born after a miraculous conception? How does this affect our theology, in particular our Christology, and our daily lives in practice?