Sermons
Acts: The Story of the Spirit – Week 1
Acts 1:1–5 Many people want Jesus without the Spirit, or the Spirit without Jesus. They may claim to be Christ centered, but reject the work of the Spirit as unreliable emotionalism. Or they embrace the work of the Spirit manifesting in miracles, joy, and...
Living a Surrendered Life
Discipline is Love
Hebrews 12:5–13 Discipline begins with our parents training our hearts, and then it’s just God our Father disciplining us. None of us enjoy it, but it’s the only way to get that “peaceful fruit of righteousness” mentioned in Hebrews 12. It’s a reminder that we...
The Sanctified Parent
When you first become a parent, you think you’re going to be John Wayne. You might be unconventional at times, but your parenting ideas are going to get the job done. Then a baby is handed to you, and you are pretty sure you’re drowning. But God isn’t...
Children are a Gift from God
We live in a time when children are seen as a burden on the world and the environment, and an unnecessary inconvenience on parents’ lives. But parenting is God’s end game, whether it’s in our natural families or our spiritual family. He is building a diverse...
The Good Samaritan
Listen to the podcast:
The Joy of the Lord
We are living in a season in our country where all of our idols are toppling over. Everything that can be shaken is being shaken. The old answers to our problems aren’t working. One of the main things we are all grasping for in life is some consistent joy. Joy...
The Golden Calf
Exodus 32 This is a very timely story about what happened when God formally introduced Himself to His people. Moses had already met Him at the burning bush, but this is when God directly spoke to the Israelites and told setup the nature of their relationship,...
A Mystery Revealed – Romans, Week 25
Romans 16:17-27 We are closing our series through Romans this week with the final verses, and then a recap of the entire letter. Paul, very cleverly, bookends the letter with the same concept of the gospel being revealed like a mystery being solved after a long...