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This sermon explores the church as God’s field—a place of cultivation, growth, and shared labor—where each person is both planted and called to tend, trusting that God brings the increase.

A soulful jazz rendition of “This Little Light of Mine,” featuring upright bass and piano, transforms the beloved children’s song into a rich, rhythmic celebration of joy, resilience, and spiritual light.

This sermon reflects on the church as light—not only something we see, but something by which we see everything else—illuminating truth, guiding community, and revealing God’s presence in the everyday.

The sacred presence once housed in the Temple now dwells within the gathered people of God—the church—as living vessels of divine glory.

This sermon is about the church as 'God’s household' a sacred space where covenant is not only remembered but actively practiced and faithfully passed on, shaping identity across generations.

Taking off the old self and putting on the new nature means surrendering habits of isolation, judgment, or self-protection so we can be clothed in compassion, courage, and grace, becoming neighbors who mirror Christ’s renewal.

Neighboring is a mindset of active encouragement, where we choose to see and strengthen one another with intentional compassion, not just proximity.

The priest and Levite saw the wounded man yet chose to pass by, unpacking the Greek eiden (εἶδεν) to highlight the tension between awareness and action. True love begins with choosing to see—and stay.

Before telling the story of the Good Samaritan, Jesus responds to a lawyer’s test with a deeper challenge: to see neighborliness not as a legal category but a sacred posture of compassion. In this introduction, the conversation shifts from justification to transformation, inviting us to examine how—and whom—we’re willing to truly see.

Pastor Germaine Matthis asks “Who is my neighbor? This sermon explores how Jesus’ response reframes neighborliness not as proximity or identity, but as the posture of mercy and presence we choose to embody.