Sunday, November 1
Paul tells a church split between Jews and Gentiles that Jesus himself is their peace, and that the cross tore down the wall keeping the two apart so that God could make one new kind of humanity out of them.
Sunday, October 25
The church is meant to be one family across every background, united around Jesus rather than politics or preference, and that unity is how the world sees who God is and finds hope and power.
Sunday, October 18
Time is the one resource that can never be replaced, so Moses prays that God would teach his people to number their days. That prayer is less about counting how many days are left and more about ordering a whole life, and each ordinary day, around God's purposes instead of our own.
Sunday, October 11
Money is not the villain and not the master; it is a neutral gift God entrusts to people, and whatever a person's hope rests in will either be used for God's glory or will end up using them.
Sunday, October 4
The skills and abilities people carry are not their own; God hands them out on purpose and expects them put to work, and the parable of the talents shows two servants rewarded for investing what they were given and one who buried his out of fear.
Sunday, September 27
The body a person lives in is not their own possession; God made it, bought it, and dwells in it, so how it is used is a matter of stewardship rather than ownership.
Sunday, September 20
Paul takes the command to walk in love into the home, where children are told to obey and honor, parents are told to discipline without provoking, and the whole family is meant to look like the Father's own love and discipline.
Sunday, September 13
Friendship is not a nice extra but how God made people and how the early church reached a city that thought it needed nothing; friends are joined in the same direction, contend for each other, and imitate the love Christ showed by giving himself up.
Sunday, September 6
Paul's instructions to husbands and wives in Ephesians 5 are read through verse 21, where mutual submission comes before any of the specific commands, so the passage calls both people to self-giving love rather than one person to power over another.
Sunday, August 30
Healthy, loving relationships don't begin by finding healthy, loving people; they begin with becoming one, because people who know they are deeply loved by God can then walk in love toward others.
Sunday, August 23
Sharing faith is less about winning an argument than telling what Jesus actually did in a person's life, backed by prayer and a willingness to be the one who speaks. Paul on trial and a blind man facing questions both did it in a few sentences.
Sunday, August 16
Every follower of Jesus already carries two things into every conversation: the good news of what God has done, and the story of what that good news has done in them. The sermon argues that sharing faith is not a personality type or a sales pitch, but the overflow of people who have actually received the news and learned to be curious about the people around them.
Sunday, August 9
The same Holy Spirit power that brought people to faith is still meant to move through ordinary people in ordinary places, and the early church paired proclaiming the gospel with demonstrating it.
Sunday, August 2
Sharing faith starts with actually loving Jesus, because people talk about what they love. Evan Griffin tells how a Little League coach's life drew him in, and the sermon holds up the pattern of experiencing the good news, being good news, and then sharing it.
Sunday, July 26
Three young exiles refuse to bow to Babylon's gold statue, telling the king their God can deliver them but they will not bow even if he doesn't. The sermon says that kind of courage comes from confessing Jesus as Lord of all and believing God is able, whether or not he changes the circumstance.
Sunday, July 26
Three teenagers in Babylon refuse to bow to a golden statue, and their courage comes from two things: confessing that Jesus is Lord of all and being convinced that God is able to save them, even if He doesn't.
Sunday, July 19
Heroism in God's story is not about winning fights but about telling the truth, and Jennifer Shock holds up three truth tellers: Atticus Finch, the prophet Micah, and Jesus, who did not merely speak the truth but is the truth.
Sunday, July 12
Israel's king and queen lead the nation into Baal worship, so Elijah stands alone against 850 prophets on Mount Carmel and calls the people to stop wavering between two gods. The fire falls, the people repent, and even Elijah runs in fear the next day, which is why the story points past him to Jesus.
Sunday, July 5
The story of David and Goliath is an underdog battle where a teenager with childlike faith faces a giant the whole army is afraid of, and the sermon argues the real hero is the Spirit of God working through him. Three things David shows: childlike faith is the superpower, preparation seasons come before giants, and refusing armor that isn't yours matters.