Waterbrooke Church
Seeking, Savoring, and Sharing the All Surpassing Worth of Jesus Christ
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Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
This Sunday’s message is called "One Holy, Happy Obsession". In Philippians 3:12-16, the apostlePaul continues to express his singular vision for his life in Christ. He wants everything that Christ hassecured for Him. The joy and passion of the apostle’s life is not the legalism of his former religious life. It’s exploring and discovering the depth and the riches of the grace of Christ in His life.Don’t we all want that as Christians? What if we could approach our life as believers as a discovery of the depths and delights of God’s grace for us? Well, we can. Come Sunday and let’s consider this together!
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Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
This Sunday’s message is entitled Complete Rubbish: Why Paul Abandoned Religion for Christ (and why you should too!). We are going to be examining one of the most important passages in the book of Philippians and one of most powerful texts in the New Testament. Philippians 3:4-11 describes the apostle Paul’s decisive break with religious performance. One thing was clear for Paul - seeking what Christ could do in and through his life was an infinitely superior pursuit to seeing what Paul could do for Christ and for God in his own strength. Getting off the treadmill of religious performance was the most important decision of Paul’s life and it is the same for each of us. The Christian life is a courageous pursuit of experiencing the person of Christ leading us powerfully through things we would never choose into an eternity that we will never regret.
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Monday Sep 14, 2020
Monday Sep 14, 2020
This Sunday, our message is called “How Rejoicing in the Lord Keeps Us Safe From Religion and Self-Righteousness”. One of the great dangers in our lives as Christians is that we can be tempted into thinking that following Christ is simply following rules. We can be tempted to think that there are certain religious activities that mark us out as mature. We feel better about where we are spiritually when we can check off the list of “Christian” activities as being accomplished in our lives. We start thinking that we are doing okay with God because we don’t have the same struggles that others do. This can lead to deadly sins like religious pride and it can bring toxicity into a church body when people possess a critical spirit and bring a false division between Christians.
When we struggle more with the faults of other believers than with our own, we can be like the Pharisee in Luke 18 who says “I thank you that I am not like other men…”. We put more emphasis on their sins instead of our own. Being a disciple of Christ is not about checking off lists and comparing ourselves with others. Being a Christian is all about following Christ, trusting Christ, looking to Christ, and seeking Christ. Discipleship is making Christ the desire and delight of your life. Let’s pray for a mighty work of God as we begin to study the third chapter of Philippians this Sunday. Looking forward to worshipping with you all!
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Monday Sep 07, 2020
Monday Sep 07, 2020
In our series on Gospel Friendships, we are going to look at the crucial importance of developing deep friendships with our missionaries.Waterbrooke has made it one of its priorities to make a difference to the ends of the earth. To do that, we are praying that we might equip and send people to partner and to disciple indigenous Christian leaders around the world. Doing that well takes careful prayerful effort. We want to develop deep relationships rather than wide shallow ones. Andy Johnson writes, “Partnerships shouldn’t be based on projects but on personal relationships. Often we’re tempted to think that we need to have our fingers in many places around the world in order to be faithful to the Great Commission. But keeping up with many contacts in many places often results in shallow and ineffectual relationships".In most cases, churches would do better to pick a few workers and go deep in their relationship with their work.” In Philippians 2:25-29, we see a powerful example of a deeply loving relationship between the missionary Paul and the church at Philippi through their servant – Epaphroditus.Would you pray this week that God would foster within us genuine and deep personal relationships with the missionaries we send and support? Would you ask God to give you a deep love for these brothers and sisters in Christ rather than just a distant one? What a difference Waterbrooke can make if we go deep in love and service together!
Saturday Sep 05, 2020
Saturday Sep 05, 2020
Beauty Marks "Making Disciples That Reveal the Beauty of Christ" By Pastor Kevin Philippians 2
This Sunday is a very special Sunday at Waterbrooke as we have a number of people who are being baptized. We hope that you can come and rejoice with us at this Christ-exalting celebration. Our study for Sunday is going to be directly related to these baptisms. We are going to pose the question: “What kind of disciples are we making?” Jesus called us to go into all the world and make disciples. In Philippians 2, Paul describes why he is going to send Timothy in his place while he is in prison for His faith. Our message this week is called: Beauty Marks: Making Disciples That Reveal the Beauty of Christ. Looking forward to this exciting Sunday morning. Pray for the powerful presence of Jesus to be with us!
Sunday Aug 09, 2020
Sunday Aug 09, 2020
One of the great, glorious passages in the Bible is Philippians 2:1-11. That is what we are going to study this week as we prepare to take communion together. Our gospel ministry flourishes in the world only when God’s people are freed from sin and self to joyfully and sacrificially share with others the rich blessings of life in Christ. The chief enemy of the gospel is not in the world around us but in our own hearts. Andrew Murray wrote, “Pride must die in you, or nothing in heaven can live in you.” Come this Sunday as we seek to do what one writer encourages the church on a mission to do: “To feed on Christ while we fast from self.” Come and let’s feast on Christ together with great joy. Our sermon this weekend is entitled: “The Ego Has Landed.”
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Sunday Aug 02, 2020
Sunday Aug 02, 2020
Our message this Sunday will be focused on the last several verses of Philippians 1. The title is: Living as Worthy Citizens. Gordon Fee writes this: “As Philippi was a colony of Rome in Macedonia, so the church was a ‘colony of heaven’ in Philippi.”
How often do we recognize that the church is strategically placed in the world to communicate and to emulate the gospel? Christians have liberty but they don’t have liberty to put any interest above Christ and any agenda ahead of the gospel.
Let’s come together prayerfully this weekend to consider how it is that we can live our lives in a manner that is worthy of the gospel.
Would you pray for one another that we would truly understand and live as the kingdom of Christ in a world that needs so desperately to encounter and to embrace Jesus?
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
“Yes, and I Will Rejoice”The Secret to Paul’s Unshakeable JoyPhilippians 1:18b-26
This Sunday, we are going to continue in our study of Philippians. The sermon is called "The Secret to Paul’s Unshakeable Joy". Paul writes to his dear friends and tells them confidently that he is not only rejoicing in his imprisonment now but that he will continue to rejoice in the future.How can Paul know that for certain? How can we, as Christians, be confident that we will rejoice in the future when so many things about the future seem uncertain and unstable? The answer is that some things, the most important things, are certain for every Christian. Come, as we consider, the secret to unshakeable joy. We all need this.
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Sunday Jul 19, 2020
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
“Although suffering, Paul is scarcely languishing in prison.” (Gordon Fee)
Praise God for our Sunday worship services! I am enormously thankful for the joy and privilege that somany of us have been granted to worship together outside! The sunshine! The beauty of LakeWasserman! The joy of great gospel worship! What a gift! Likewise, praise God for the numerous peoplewho are connecting online to worship the Lord with us. God is at work! This Sunday, we are going to seethat we can feel this way about God’s work in our lives not just on sunny summer days. You can feel thisway when locked up in a prison in Caesarea! In our study of Philippians 1:12-18, we will see how glad-hearted the apostle Paul is because his arrest and imprisonment for the gospel has ended up advancingthe gospel in some amazing ways! Gordon Fee writes “Paul is hardly languishing in prison!” Will you prayfor your heart and my heart, for your mind and my mind? Will you pray that we would learn to see andto seize the glorious opportunities for the gospel that God places before all of us on a regular basis.Would we learn that there is no reason to languish in our circumstances, when Jesus is Lord. We mightbe in chains but the gospel is not!
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
“Forged through the Fire”The Joy of Gospel FriendshipsPhilippians 1:3-11
This Sunday, we will continue our study of the letter to the Philippians and the subject of Gospel Friendships. The apostle Paul absolutely exudes joy and hope during a time of grave danger, imprisonment, and hostility. It is as if Paul’s joy and confidence is actually ratcheted up as the pressure increases upon him and upon the Philippian Christians.What we need to see is why it is that Paul so deeply delights in his friends at Philippi. What does Paul know that we don’t and why is He so overflowing with joy and hope when he thinks about his Christian friends at Philippi? Looking forward to worshipping over the Word with you all.
This Sunday, we will continue our study of the letter to the Philippians and the subject of Gospel Friendships. The apostle Paul absolutely exudes joy and hope during a time of grave danger, imprisonment, and hostility. It is as if Paul’s joy and confidence is actually ratcheted up as the pressure increases upon him and upon the Philippian Christians.What we need to see is why it is that Paul so deeply delights in his friends at Philippi. What does Paul know that we don’t and why is He so overflowing with joy and hope when he thinks about his Christian friends at Philippi? Looking forward to worshipping over the Word with you all.
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Sunday Jul 05, 2020
Sunday Jul 05, 2020
One of the great gifts of the Christian life is the gift of gospel friendship. We were not made to live this life alone and being faithful to Christ in a world of sin, hardship, and disappointment is challenging, to say the least. The apostle Paul writes to the church at Philippi to express his great joy in their deep friendship and sacrificial partnership in his life and ministry. He writes them, not only to thank them but also to encourage them to not let their dedication to one another to waver.People have disappointed them. Disagreements inevitably come. However, one of the great joys of being a Christian is having other Christians in your corner helping you to live for and to love Christ supremely. Over the next while, we are going to study Paul’s friendship letter to the Philippians and we are going to learn what real gospel friendships look like. Are you wanting a good gospel friend? Are you willing to be one?
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Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
This Sunday’s message is entitled “The Lens of Omnipotent Love”. When the love of Christ becomes the lens through which we interpret all of life’s events, the world looks very different. Christ’s love is not simply a feeling that He has for us but it is a force that is directed towards our eternal good. How do you view the trials and hardships of life? How often do we find ourselves questioning the love of God in times of heart ache and pain? What happens when we come to believe that there is never a gap between our experience of life and Christ’s expression of love? Read Romans 8:35-39 and ask God to transform our church with the power of the love of Christ.
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Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Hello, fellow Waterbrooke shelter-in-place people! We are looking forward to connecting with one another again via Livestream for our Sunday Worship.This Sunday, in our study of Romans 8, we are going to begin to look at life in the Spirit. The message is called: "The Incredible Transforming Power of the Holy Spirit". Jesus said that it was better for us that He leave so that He could send His Holy Spirit (John 16:7). We are going to look at why that is on Sunday.But here is the spoiler: The Holy Spirit totally transforms us so that what would have normally taken us down, ends up taking us up. What would we have turned away from in fear, we face full-on with hope.This is a timely word for God’s people and I ask you to read over and over Romans 8 and pray over and over for the people and mission of Waterbrooke.
Sunday Mar 08, 2020
Sunday Mar 08, 2020
God’s Mission is in Motion"by Pastor Kevin DibbleyGenesis 10“They say Aslan is on the move- perhaps has already landed". CS Lewis
Join us this Sunday as we considered how the sons of Noah fulfilled the call of God to be fruitful and to multiply and fill the earth, we are meant to see a picture of how God would fill the earth with His glory through the church. Let's worship together!
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Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Sunday Mar 01, 2020
This Sunday's message is from Genesis 9 and is entitled "A New Day and A Clear Vision."After the flood, God blesses Noah and charges him to "Be fruitful and multiply and to fill the earth." That is the marching orders for the church. The wasteland of the world is meant to be transformed with the life-giving, life-transforming power of God.Our purpose and calling are clear and God's commitment is unswerving. Let's pray that each of us has this kind of clarity giving hope and purpose to our lives in a world that is precious in the eyes of the Lord!
Sunday Feb 23, 2020
Sunday Feb 23, 2020
This Sunday, our sermon is entitled "Greater Mercy". Noah had the unenviable task of preparing an ark for 120 years that would save only His family. Despite his prophetic role, no one repented. No one cried out to God. No one but His family was saved. Yet, God sustained and rescued him. As God’s people on God’s mission in a world hell-bent on being hell-bound, Noah’s story is meant to hold out hope for us.We are to be assured that the same God who carried Noah through it all, will care for us as we fulfill His call to go to all peoples. In fact, we can be assured that not only will God keep and care for us, but God will do a greater work of salvation through His church than he ever did for Noah. There was a great mercy for Noah. There is greater mercy for us.
Note: The recording started a few minutes after Pastor Kevin started. We are in Genesis 7 & 8
Tuesday Feb 18, 2020
Tuesday Feb 18, 2020
This Sunday’s message is from Genesis 6. It is called, "Monumental Hope in a World Gone Mad". All of us have the tendency or temptation to wonder what God is up to or where God is when the evil in the world seems to dominate everything everywhere. If our focus is on the world and not on God and His Word, we can get pretty discouraged.However, when we see things biblically, the mission of God gains traction and urgency in a world of increasing evil precisely because we know that our God cannot sit idle and do nothing. His nature guarantees that things must be made right. His promise guarantees that things will be made right.Come and be encouraged by the hope of the gospel as we sing, pray and study God’s Word together.
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Monday Feb 10, 2020
Monday Feb 10, 2020
This Sunday, we will be looking at Genesis 5. What Moses reveals in this chapter is a glorious truth: Stronger than the pain and sorrow of sin and death is the sovereign, gracious purpose and promise of God.Our sermon is entitled: An Unbroken Promise for a Deeply Broken World. Would you pray that the Holy Spirit would so glorify God and the hope of that gospel that He would simultaneously comfort us and compel us to live together as His people with hope in a world that needs Him so desperately?
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Sunday Feb 02, 2020
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
This Sunday’s message is entitled "Sour Grapes and Sovereign Grace: The Hard-hitting Kindness of the Word of God". As we continue our study of Genesis 4, we are reminded that serving God is not easy. In fact, when we are working hard for the Lord, some pretty dangerous things can begin to happen in our hearts.What happens, when ministry is disappointing. What happens, when it feels like God ignores our sacrifices and honors others instead. What happens in our hearts, when ministry gets hard.The Bible prepares God’s people for the sacrifices of ministry by kindly but clearly reminding us, that we are servants and not sovereigns. When things go wrong, we ought to cry out to the Lord rather than lash out at one another.
Sunday Jan 26, 2020
Sunday Jan 26, 2020
This Sunday, our message was called “Legalism, Lies, and Love.” In our study of Genesis 3, we will see the catastrophe of Adam and Eve’s plunge into sin. Underneath their fall that has wreaked havoc upon all of our lives is a simple and crucial principle: Life is designed for dependence.Our existence, meaning, joy, and life are inextricably tied to God Himself. The lie of religion and the lie of rebellion both tempt us to think that we determine our own destiny. Our destiny is simple: Trust God and live. Trust self and die.Come as we see not just the tragedy but the incredible hope and mercy of God in one of the most important chapters in the Bible – Genesis 3.