June 16, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker Not all testing is bad Matthew 4:1-4Deuteronomy 8:2-3 Testing reveals who you really are Testing prepares you for your life as a Christ-follower. “We live in a culture that has replaced soul with self. This reduction turns people into either problems or consumers. Insofar as we acquiesce in that replacement, …

June 9, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker James 5:19-20Isaiah 53:6 3 Causes of Wandering: 1) Believing that following Jesus is easy Matthew 7:13-14 "Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more. Charles Spurgeon: You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A…

June 2, 2024 Associate Pastor Eric Burch James 1:2-4 NASB Go to God First James 5:13 “James means that there is no time in which God does not invite us to Himself.” -John Calvin “Our whole life should be so angled towards God that whatever strikes us, whether sorrow or joy, should be deflected upwards at once into His presence.” -Alec Motyer Don’t …

May 26, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker James 5:12 "Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known." -John Knox Matthew 5:34-37 Leviticus 19:11-12 (NET)Oleh Summit Ridge Community Church

May 19, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker Psalm 133:1Romans 12:18 START waitingJames 5:7-8James 1:2-4 "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."-Leo Tolstoy "Pampered bodies grow sluggish through sloth; not work but movement and their own weight exhausts them. Prosperity unbruised cannot endure a single blow, but a man who has been at a c…

May 12, 2024 Associate Pastor Louise Waller James 5:1-6 Why are riches dangerous? The World’s Lie: Money = Power = Safety YOU CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS Matthew 6:33 1 Timothy 6:17-19 Acts 4: 32-35 Seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness Luke 12:34 Malachi 3:10 (NIV)Oleh Summit Ridge Community Church

May 5, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker "Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast." -Jane Austen "The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection…

April 28, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker James 4:11-12Matthew 5:21-22Matthew 5:27-30Matthew 3:31-37Proverbs 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 …

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 disagreeme…

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…

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)Oleh Summit Ridge Community Church

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 AckerOleh Summit Ridge Community Church

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

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…

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

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 …

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 …

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 willi…

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 commo…

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)Oleh Summit Ridge Community Church

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)Oleh Summit Ridge Community Church

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 th…

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…

January 7, 2024 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker Revelation 2: 1-7 (NET)Oleh Summit Ridge Community Church

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