Harbor Cov Podcast

SERIES: Sermon on the Mount TITLE: Love Your Enemies (Seriously?) SCRIPTURE: Matthew 5:43-48 PREACHING: Matt Knapp, Associate Pastor Matthew 5:43-48 might be the hardest command in the Sermon on the Mount, "love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you," What does that look like in an election season, in our families, and at the communion table.

Sermon Series: The Sermon on the Mount Sermon Title: Keep Your Hands to Yourself Preaching: Pastor Brandon Goad Text: Matthew 5:38-42 Description: Jesus calls for us to break the cycle of mutual destruction by calling us to an active, costly pursuit of restoration that absorbs hostility rather than returning it. Relinquishing our right to get even frees us to embody the disarming, reconciling love of Christ in a culture obsessed with payback.

Sermon Series: Sermon on the Mount Sermon Title: Keeping the Covenants that Keep Us Sermon Text: Matthew 5:33-37 Preaching: Angela Rajnus, Discipleship Coordinator Description: We often measure integrity by our biggest decisions—the contracts we sign, the crises we endure, or the moral lines we refuse to cross. But in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus reveals that integrity can be won or lost in words you say and the promises you make.

SERIES: Sermon on the Mount TITLE: What About Lust? SCRIPTURE: Matthew 5:27–32 PREACHING: Brandon Goad, Lead Pastor Jesus moves past outward compliance to address the hidden intentions of the soul. While religious tradition treated adultery and divorce as mere legal boundaries to manage, Jesus recalibrates the standard back to God’s original, holy intent. This message calls believers to examine their inner desires, take decisive action against temptation, and cherish the covenant of marriage

Sermon series: Sermon on the Mount Title: The Anatomy of Anger Text: Matthew 5:21-26 Description: Destructive actions on the surface of our lives are actually symptoms of untreated anger and contempt bubbling up from within our hearts. Jesus' radical cure for stepping out of resentment is reconciliation. Question for the countdown in the first service: What would it take for you to turn your feelings of malice towards someone into genuine feelings of goodwill?

SERIES: Sermon on the Mount TITLE: What does it mean to be in God's family? SCRIPTURE: 5:13–20 PREACHING: Brandon Goad, Lead Pastor In Matthew 5:13–20, Jesus begins the Sermon on the Mount by teaching his followers what it means to live as members of God’s family. Because our adoption precedes our instruction, we are called to bear the family resemblance, embrace the story of God’s faithful work, and learn to represent our Father by following his Son.