All sermons

Judging. Asking, Doing

This sermon explores the theme of judgment from Matthew 7, emphasizing the need for self-awareness and addressing one's own sin before judging others. It advocates for a grace-shaped perspective in all relationships, encouraging dependent prayer and loving action towards everyone, rooted in God's character as both righteous judge and loving Father.

Why am I Anxious?

Where Is My Treasure?

How Do I Pray?

This sermon unpacks Jesus' teaching on prayer from Matthew 6:7-15, emphasizing that prayer is the lifeblood of the Christian. It outlines six characteristics of true prayer: it should be reverent (magnifying God's glory), big (praying for God's kingdom), small (praying for daily needs), penitent (confessing sins and knowing forgiveness), dependent (seeking God's help against temptation), and persistent. The message encourages believers to view prayer as a profound privilege that actively shapes their lives and aligns them with God's will.

Living Before The Lord

This sermon from Matthew 6 explores the motives behind our righteous acts, emphasizing that our relationship with God as our Heavenly Father should be the sole driver for giving, praying, and fasting. It contrasts seeking temporary human recognition with striving for eternal divine reward, highlighting the importance of practicing righteousness in secret before God alone.

Gifts Given By Grace

This sermon, based on Romans 12:3-8, emphasizes that believers are uniquely gifted by God's grace to serve Christ's church. It highlights how we are grounded by grace through humility, made different by grace with diverse yet unified gifts, and built up by grace as we use our gifts for service, teaching, exhortation, generosity, leadership, and mercy. We are encouraged to discern and use our gifts for God's glory and the building up of the body.

Perfect Like Your Father

The Pure in Heart

What is the Law?

This sermon delves into Jesus' teaching on the Law and the Prophets from Matthew 5:17-20, asserting that Christ fulfills all of God's Word, upholds its eternal authority, and empowers believers to live in righteous obedience by the Holy Spirit. It cautions against the distorted views of legalism and antinomianism, highlighting Christ's perfect righteousness as the sole means of salvation and the source of joyful adherence to God's commands.

How Do I Live?

This sermon explores Matthew 5:13-16, where Jesus describes his followers as the "salt of the earth" and "light of the world." It emphasizes that Christian living begins with a transformed character, leading believers to preserve society, flavor their surroundings, remain faithful in all endeavors, illuminate the darkness by making Christ known, and live visibly for the glory of God the Father.

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

This sermon from Psalm 42 addresses how to navigate difficult times, uncertainty, and despair. It encourages listeners to recognize spiritual dangers in their lives, to actively redeem unanswered questions by seeking God's wisdom and growing in humility and love for the Gospel, and to remember God's unwavering character and promises as the ultimate answer.

Will I Be Persecuted?

The sermon explores Christian peacemaking and its implications for persecution, drawing from Matthew 5:9-12. It highlights the historical and ongoing reality of Christians suffering for their faith, emphasizing that believers are called to make peace, primarily through evangelism and fostering unity within the church. The core message is that Christians endure hardship and opposition because they value Christ above all earthly comforts and anticipate an eternal reward in heaven.

What Do I Love?

This sermon explores the Beatitudes from Matthew 5:6-8, emphasizing that the human heart is molded by its deepest longings. It highlights how spiritual poverty, mourning for sin, and meekness lead to a hunger and thirst for God's righteousness, not our own. This transformation results in lives marked by mercy and purity of heart, culminating in the blessedness of seeing God.

Who Am I Before God?

This sermon introduces the Sermon on the Mount, highlighting its relevance for Christian living today and its central focus on the Kingdom of God and Christ as King. The speaker then delves into the first three Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-5), explaining what it means to be poor in spirit, to mourn over sin, and to be meek, emphasizing that these qualities are developed through humility and a right relationship with Christ.

Christ's People

This sermon unpacks Christ's desires for His church, drawing from Ephesians 4:1-16. It outlines five essential characteristics that should mark every local church: a life of holiness, profound unity in Christ, active service from every gifted member, collective maturity into the likeness of Christ, and an overarching commitment to love one another.

Christ's Mission

This sermon emphasizes that God's ultimate purpose in all things is His glory, and our purpose as created beings is to glorify and enjoy Him forever. This is accomplished through Christ's Great Commission to make disciples of all nations, which involves both evangelism (baptizing) and teaching (discipleship), knowing that Christ is always with us.

Christ's Church

This sermon from Matthew 16 emphasizes that the church is built on Christ, by Christ's supernatural power, and gathers around Christ. It highlights Peter's confession of Jesus as the Christ and the Son of the living God as the foundation for the church. The church, empowered by Christ, is declared unstoppable, with the gates of hell unable to prevail against it, and is entrusted with the keys of the kingdom of heaven.

Active Faith When Others Wander

This sermon focuses on James 5:19-20, encouraging believers to actively pursue and restore fellow church members who wander from the truth. It highlights the importance of being connected, caring intentionally, and acting as conduits of God's grace, emphasizing the profound impact of bringing a wandering soul back to Christ, even at personal cost.

James 5:16-18

James 5:13-15

James 5:7-12

James 5:1-6

James 4:13-17

James 4:11-12

James 4:7-10

James 4:1-5

James 3:13-18

James 3:9-12

James 3:5-8

James 3:1-4

Luke 24:1-27

Luke 23:33-49

James 2:18-26

James 2:14-17

James 2:8-13

James 2:1-7

James 1:26-27

James 1:22-25

James 1:19-21

James 1:16-18

James 1:12-15

James 1:9-11

James 1:5-8

James 1:1-4