Woodland Hills Church
Woodland Hills Church Sermons Get the most recent sermon audio and video from Woodland Hills Church. Located in St. Paul, MN, our goal as a church is to tear down walls between social classes, genders, races, and most of all, between people and Jesus Christ. ...
Woodland Hills Church Sermons Get the most recent sermon audio and video from Woodland Hills Church. Located in St. Paul, MN, our goal as a church is to tear down walls between social classes, genders, races, and most of all, between people and Jesus Christ. Many other resources (including sermon study guides, presentation slides and our entire sermon archive dating back to 1992) are available for free on our web site. Most sermons are by our Senior Pastor, Greg Boyd.
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Hearing God, Part 2
Kevin Johnson, our community pastor, continued his two-part series. He ...
Kevin Johnson, our community pastor, continued his two-part series. He began with an affirmation that it is the very nature of God to speak to us and lead us. Not only in exceptional situations but as a general rule! God is not a single independent entity, but a community of three persons. Community, and therefore communication, is as the foundation of God's reality.
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Hearing God, Part 1
Kevin Johnson, our Community Pastor, introduced this week's message with ...
Kevin Johnson, our Community Pastor, introduced this week's message with a statement: 'I want to hear from God.' Every culture seems to have felt this desire. It's a human urge to be connected with our Source, with God, with our Creator. We want to make contact with the divine somehow, and different cultures have developed many diverse ways of expressing this. Does God speak to us today?
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Why Did Jesus Die?
'Why did Jesus have to die?' We all know that ...
'Why did Jesus have to die?' We all know that Jesus died 'to take away the sin of the world.' But what about a more complete explanation? How can Jesus be justly punished for our sin? A common explanation has been that the Father's wrath against our sin moves God to destroy us because a holy God cannot tolerate sin. The Son becomes a buffer and takes the punishment in our stead. While this is true, it is not the entire truth. Greg challenged this thinking by reminding us of some of the biblical descriptions of the work of Christ. Jesus reveals the love of God, not merely conceals God's wrath.
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The Enemy Within
Jesus gives us the greatest commandment, to love God, and ...
Jesus gives us the greatest commandment, to love God, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. We've all heard this command, but we tend to resist the basis for loving our neighbors - loving ourselves. The "small story" we often live in focuses on what we've done, what was done to us, and what we dislike about ourselves. The Big Story is the eternal perspective. It includes not only us, but what God has done, is doing, and will do through us. In Christ, we are to see our story as part of the Big Story. With God's help we can embrace this process to overcome the evil within.
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River of Life, Part 2
This week, Woodland Hills Church truly had a blessing! Rev. ...
This week, Woodland Hills Church truly had a blessing! Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter-McNeil came back to preach the Word of God and finish up her two-part series 'River of Life,' from her November 2004 visit. She opened up by singing 'Spirit of the Living God' and reminding us that it's only by God's Holy Spirit that we can be empowered to do anything of Kingdom value.
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Neil Anderson, 11:00 a.m. Service
**Please note, this study guide is only applicable to the ...
**Please note, this study guide is only applicable to the 11:00 a.m. service. Unfortunately, we did not anticipate that Neil would give three different sermons for each service! Though very generous on his part, it was a surprise to us!** This message challenged us to be content as children of God, walking freely in the Spirit, and it warned us of the two things that might prevent us from experiencing the freedom we have: legalism and license.
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Neil Anderson, 8:45 a.m. Service
No study guide is available for this service, which was ...
No study guide is available for this service, which was different from the 11:00 service.
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Living in the Big Story
In this sermon, Greg reinforces the message of the Kingdom ...
In this sermon, Greg reinforces the message of the Kingdom of God by helping us see our lives not only in relationship to ourselves and those closest to us, but also in the 'big picture' of what God is doing in the world. The Kingdom of God is like a mustard seed that is growing within the world to transform it. It is not only how it impacts our personal lives that matters, but also how our personal lives participate in the larger Kingdom efforts that God is calling us to.
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A Little Yeast
Everything in our lives is connected in some way to ...
Everything in our lives is connected in some way to every other thing in our lives. We must be aware of this if we are truly to root out sin and manifest the Kingdom of God. The biblical image is that of yeast leavening a whole lump of dough, which is used both positively (Mat. 13:33) and negatively (2 Cor. 5:16). Sin-including festering anger, unforgiveness, resentment-works like yeast to penetrate deep into the lives of those affected; likewise, the Kingdom of God works like yeast transforming the whole for good as well. Therefore, we cannot really compartmentalize our lives. And as we begin to cooperate with the yeast of the Kingdom of God in our lives, we quickly find the world resisting us.
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First Fruits
Christians are the 'first fruits' of the 'human harvest' that ...
Christians are the 'first fruits' of the 'human harvest' that God is bringing up on the earth. Greg discusses how just as in a natural harvest a small portion of the crop is ready early, we as Christians in this world now are ready for heaven before others have realized that heaven has been prepared for them! Contrary to the assumption that when the messiah came all would be transformed immediately, Jesus teaches that there is a process, an unfolding that will occur. We are a part of that process as the first fruits!
