Zions Stone UCC

Pastor Mike expands on the call to relationship focusing on cultivating our relationship with God through spiritual formation using the classic Christian practices of prayer, fasting, and giving

Pastor Mike begins a new series and speaks on the three calls from God we see in 1 Samuel 3:1-10, The calls to relationship, mission, and renewed worship and vision.

Pastor Mike speaks on the first day of creation and how the Spirit hovering over the waters, and the separation of the light from the darkness, relates to the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River.

Pastor Mike speaks on the experience of light shining in the darkness when the angels appeared to the shepherds and how the Virgin Mary treasured and pondered the experiences of the Nativity in her heart.

In the final sermon of 2017, Pastor Mike preaches on Galatians 4 on Jesus being sent in the fullness of time, born under the law, to free those enslaved so they could be adopted as God's sons and daughters.

Pastor Mike speaks on the example of the Virgin Mary and on the Old Testament language of God building himself a house among his people. Mary said yes to God, and her reception of Jesus in her womb is an example of the obedience and faith we are to have as Christ is formed in us.

Pastor Mike talks about the message of comfort from Isaiah, the message of preparation from John the Baptizer, and the message of diligent peace from Peter.

Pastor Mike begins the Advent season speaking on the theme of hope. We can have hope because of the promise of salvation, God's faithfulness in our waiting, and hope producing in us the desire to stay awake as we anticipate Christ's Second Coming.

Pastor Mike wraps up his series: What's the Point? by speaking on some of the lies we've come to believe about worship as well as what the point actually is.

Pastor Mike speaks on the centrality of the Eucharist in Christian worship and how many Christians have marginalized its importance. He also speaks on what it means and what in accomplishes and what it discloses to our hearts and to the world.

Drawing from the work of the theologian Robert Webber, Pastor Michael speaks about the biblical pattern of worship and the necessity for worship not being divided up into pieces we like better than others as the measure for authentic worship. He then speaks about the importance of proclamation of the word of God.

Pastor Mike Landsman talks about how worship is the call to become part of God's story of his saving activity in the world and how worship does God's story, remembers the past, and anticipates the future.

Pastor Mike speaks on how church is where we come to be renewed, reoriented, and retrained through worship, most especially around the preaching and receiving of God's word and the sacrament of Holy Communion.

Pastor Mike continues his series Whats the Point. He speaks on how we don't know what we love but we can tell what we love by what we steer our lives toward. He also speaks on how we need to learn to discern how culture around us subverts our hearts based on Christ's example of resisting temptation.

Pastor Mike continues his new series Whats the Point? by talking about how what we love is shaped by the habits and practices of our hearts and how our loves need redirection towards God through worship.