Sunday, November 1
Jesus is the suffering servant of Isaiah's final servant song, crushed in the place of sinners and then exalted, and the only fitting response to him is to turn and trust him.
Sunday, October 25
Paul heads for Jerusalem knowing prison and suffering wait for him there, and he goes anyway because God saved him and told him to go. The sermon asks what it looks like to obey that kind of call quickly, to weigh God's voice over the voices of people who love you, and to hold your life loosely because of what Christ has already done.
Sunday, October 18
Paul's parting words to the Ephesian elders are a charge to finish the ministry God gave him, and to help the next generation run theirs with conviction, with care for others, and with a legacy worth following.
Sunday, October 11
Paul's third journey is more than a travel log: it shows God comforting his people through other believers, through gathered worship around his word, and through resurrection power that meets us in our weakness.
Sunday, October 4
Paul's time in Ephesus shows Jesus overpowering spiritual darkness, both in dramatic confrontations with demons and in the quieter ways darkness distorts worship. Christ has conquered, and his kingdom keeps advancing.
Sunday, September 27
Paul keeps going back to strengthen the disciples he already made, and the sermon names six essentials of a healthy discipleship that makes disciples, matures them, and multiplies them into others.
Sunday, September 20
Paul arrives in Corinth worn down and afraid, and God keeps him there with people, with hidden fruit, with his own presence, and with a mission that will not be stopped.
Sunday, September 13
Paul walks into a city so crowded with idols it looks suffocated, and tells the people there that they were made to know God and that God has already made himself known as creator, sustainer, and savior in Jesus.
Sunday, September 6
The world is spiritually upside down, and God sets it right side up through the suffering and resurrection of Jesus, through his rule as King, and through his Word.
Sunday, August 30
Paul's mission into Philippi shows the same gospel reaching three very different people: a wealthy businesswoman, an enslaved fortune-teller, and a jailer on the night shift. None of them were asked if they were worth saving.
Sunday, August 23
A debate breaks out in the early church over whether Gentiles have to keep the law of Moses to be saved, and the apostles answer that a person is made right with God by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. That same gospel is where the Christian life starts and where it stands.