College Wesleyan Church Sermons

Nathan Metz:Satisfaction is a discipline that can be learned. It is possible to have what God has offered and be unsatisfied. The contentment we seek is not only in the obtaining of God’s provision but in the discipline of our souls to consume Him in every everything.

Steve DeNeff:For too long holiness has been concerned mostly with abstinence, the ruthless elimination of sin. It’s time to get serious about joy. We need to get joy back into our pursuit of holiness.

Steve DeNeff:Things change when a few on the margins to find a better way to live and the rest of us join them. The “holiness code” in Leviticus (chapters 18-22) is a summary of that better way to live. What if a whole community, like CWC, were to practice the witness of this holiness code? What difference could it make in our society?

Ethan Linder: What does holiness actually look like? Leviticus 19 is part of the “holiness code,” which takes holiness out of the abstract and places it in the ordinary details of life: work, money, relationships, ambitions… even the way we handle grievances. But how do these laws relate to those of us who live in this moment? This sermon will explore how the holiness code in Leviticus helps us understand the shape of our own practice of holiness: specifically, how love of God works its way out into love of neighbor.

Steve DeNeff:From the beginning, it was God’s intention to make us into priests who served the world (Ex 19:6). But what do priests do? What role do we have in bringing the world into The Presence? Does anyone - even ministers - play this role today? And what can we do, as laity, to act as priests in the places where we live, work and play?