Sermons from 2025
Keep Your Eyes Open and Stay Alert
Pastor Ron emphasizes the importance of spiritual vigilance, hope, and readiness for the coming of Jesus Christ, while also highlighting lessons from scripture and contemporary challenges faced by our congregation.
Give Thanks to the King
A reflective and uplifting message for Christ the King Sunday, exploring the close of the church year as a moment for gratitude, reflection, and hopeful new beginnings. Pastor Ron connects personal growth, congregational transition, and spiritual wisdom to encourage us through times of change.
An Opportunity to Testify
“Is God good all the time?” Amidst the presence of suffering, injustice, and hardship in the world, God’s goodness is constant. Despite the brokenness of the world, we are encouraged as believers to maintain faith and endurance during difficult times.
Enemies of Our Faith
In Matthew 14:13-33, Jesus performs the miracle of feeding 5,000 people and subsequently walks on water to meet His disciples amid a storm. Pastor Ron uses this biblical narrative to explore themes of faith versus fear, trust in God during transitions, and the importance of spiritual focus and courage.
Jesus, the Uninvited Guest
Pastor Ron delivers a reflective and motivational message centered on the biblical story of Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector, as an illustration of how Jesus unexpectedly enters lives and invites transformation. The theme revolves around Jesus as an uninvited but loving guest who repeatedly shows up in surprising ways, urging individuals to repent, change direction, and open their hearts.
The Other Side of Through
Pastor Ron preaches on 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18. Paul, nearing the end of his life, reflects on having “fought the good fight” and “kept the faith.” His words remind us that God stands with us in every trial, giving strength to persevere and hope to finish our own race with courage and trust.
A Resilient Faith
Pastor Ron reflects on what it means to have a resilient faith—a faith that endures life’s challenges, leans on God’s strength, and grows stronger through every season.
Rekindling and Guarding an Ancient Faith
Our Christian faith is a gift that is not static, but instead it’s dynamic; constantly evolving and growing from one season into the next, much like a mustard seed. Paul reminds Timothy to rekindle and guard the gift of his faith, with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Take Notice
Jesus warns of the great judgment awaiting those who ignore the poor and the suffering. Hear Christ’s challenge to open our eyes, act with compassion, and live with mercy.
The Seed, the Soil and the Soul; Mama’s Garden
Chaplain Anne Owens delivers a sermon and a song, reflecting on the sacred cycles of sowing and reaping—Our Creator’s promise woven into the very rhythm of creation and the hope of life renewed. – from September 14, 2025.
The Cost of Disicpleship
When Christ calls us into the Kingdom, no longer should there be any issues in our lives that rival the will of God. Our families, our homes, our professions and our lifestyles should come second, only to Christ. – Rev. Dr. Ron Hankins’ sermon from September 7, 2025.
The Gift of Humility
The scriptures instruct us to humble ourselves under God’s mighty hand so that God may lift us up in due time (1 Peter 5:6). Humility is defined as having a modest or low view of one’s own importance. It involves putting others needs in front of our own so that they may benefit. Jesus was teaching a message to the pharisees reminding them that their high, religious positions here on earth did not translate into high positions within God’s Heavenly…