Sermon Library

In a world where people often test our limits, many of us struggle with how to respond when others frustrate, offend, or simply wear us down. This teaching explores how to close the gaps in our lives to become more patient, gracious, and grounded in love toward others.

Most people read right past Jesus’s baptism, never considering the colossal problem it presented to John the Baptist. If you’re interested in understanding the essence of why Jesus came and how to follow Jesus, it’s all contained in this story titled, Chasing Chaos!

The Lord’s Prayer is the most well-known prayer in human history, given by Jesus nearly 2,000 years ago. In this teaching, we unpack each phrase of this powerful prayer to understand what Jesus taught and how to fully live this prayer!

It’s commonly believed that when Mary and Joseph show up in Bethlehem, they do so within minutes of Mary about to birth. And from that picture, we’re invited into one of the most significant aspects of the Christmas Season – wonder!

Hebrews 11 is traditionally called the “Hall of Faith” or the “Heroes of Faith.” It’s a chapter filled with stories of people who believed God’s word and faithfully lived it out in their lives, even though many of them never saw God’s promises fulfilled in their lifetime.

Justice and Righteousness are two of the most explosive themes in the Bible, and they’re always attached at the hip. But when we pursue Justice and Righteousness, wholeness and peace are brought back to our world.

Jonah is finally heading in the right direction. He reaches Nineveh and delivers a half-hearted, five-word message, and the unexpected happens. And as we explore, if we’re willing to listen and obey the word of God, beautiful things can unfold.

Revelation makes far more sense when we first ask what it meant to its original audience. By exploring John, Domitian, and the seven churches of Revelation 2–3, this teaching restores the historical context needed to hear these letters more clearly.

If you were tasked with retelling the most significant story in human history, how would you begin? Matthew had to ask the same question, and what was his answer? What’s more, we are reminded that all are welcome to be part of God’s family, no matter how messed up our past or our present may be.

In Mark 5, Jesus encounters a man possessed by a “Legion” of demons. It’s one of the most explosive stories we find in the gospels about who Jesus is, what he’s capable of, and what our response to his redemptive work in our lives should look like.

The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard is a stunning and sophisticated story on the interconnectivity of justice, generosity, and gratitude. The more grateful we are, the more joy we’ll possess, and the more we’ll see the kingdom advance here on earth.

The Kingdom of God is not something Jesus invites us to add onto our lives; it is the reality around which our lives are meant to be ordered. This teaching explores what it means to seek the Kingdom first—and what may be holding us back.

Despite what we may think, many people didn’t believe Jesus’s ministry was all that impressive. In fact, they questioned whether God’s kingdom was really advancing through him or not. May you experience encouragement and challenge as you engage in this stunning parable.

James 5 raises difficult questions about sickness, prayer, and healing that have often produced confusion and disappointment. Returning to the passage’s original context helps recover James’s intent: to offer hope, help, and healing rather than easy formulas or false promises.

The biggest problem Paul faced in his ministry was how to forge a Christian identity with Jew and Gentile. In a polarized world where many Christians exhibit more allegiance to their tribes (of ethnicity, nationality, political party, social standing, etc.) than to Jesus Christ, the divide is split deeper.

The book of James is comprised of short, punchy, practical sermonettes that are in response to problems within the larger community James is writing to. It’s a message we all need to hear and be challenged by – myself included.

You might understand The LORD’s Favor as a statement. However, to understand it as Jesus did is a completely different thing. It’s a message Jesus’s religious audience didn’t want to hear.

How do you say goodbye to someone you know you won’t ever see again – at least this side of Heaven? In this teaching, we explore this metaphor and how it enables followers of Jesus to live with greater purpose, passion, and perseverance!

Jesus called Pergamum the place where Satan’s throne was, and its culture offers striking parallels to our own. This teaching explores how counterfeit messages can slowly reshape our values—and Jesus’ loving but urgent call to remain faithful.

When Jesus calls Peter “Satan,” it hardly sounds comforting. Yet behind those startling words is a needed invitation: release our expectations of how God should work so we can receive what God actually wants to do in and through us.

Balaam’s talking donkey may be one of the Bible’s strangest stories, but it carries a surprisingly practical lesson. Sometimes the word we most need to hear is “no”—and learning to receive it can become an unexpected path to freedom.

Matthew begins the story of Jesus with what looks like a boring genealogy—but in the first-century world, it was anything but. His carefully crafted family line announces hope, salvation, restoration, and the stunning truth that everyone is invited into God’s family.

Psalm 34 is a psalm of David, and it’s one of the rare psalms that provides a “header” indicating why the psalm was written. In this case, David had to act insane by slobbering on the gate of Gath in order to escape with his life.

The future is often really fuzzy. And trying to figure out what is to come or understand what God is doing can leave us confused, frustrated, anxious, or even angry.

When God called Moses to a new path, He wasn’t asking Moses to become someone else; He had been preparing him all along. This teaching explores how God can use every season of our lives to prepare us for what He calls us to next.

Arguably the most beautiful line in the Song of Songs is this: “I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine” (6:3). Until we get this sorted out, we will struggle to love either well.

Three times in the Song of Songs we read, “Do not arouse or awaken love [sexual love] until it so desires” (2:7; 3:5, 8:4). This teaching explores the multi-faceted, complicated reality of living a life of chastity, and seeks to be incredibly practical when it comes to dealing with this topic in a helpful, redemptive, non-shame-filled-way.

The Song of Songs emphatically celebrates the goodness of sex. Sex is a good gift from a good God to be enjoyed in the context of marriage. Despite the significance of marriage, Jesus taught there wouldn’t be marriages in heaven, nor is becoming married the height of human existence.

In concluding our Messy Church series, I tackle Jesus’ healing of the 10 Lepers and link it to a prior story in the Bible of another leper by the name of Naaman. Gratitude grounds us in the ability to love.

Jesus consistently pursued people others kept at a distance, including Levi and those labeled socially unclean. His example challenges the church to be more than welcoming: to actively pursue people with love. The doors of the church, in other words, need legs.

In this story, Hannah has been through a lot. In fact, once you briefly unpack all of the cultural and social realities, you soon realize she’s in one of the worst possible situations you could be in. But what we learn is that she’s not taking something in; she’s pouring something out.

One of the more bizarre stories in the Bible deals with Balaam and his talking donkey. It’s one of those stories often read to kids before they go to bed, but generally not taken too seriously by adults because it’s hard to know what to do with.

God is a God of the journey and not the destination. This is how God works, and for many of us, this is what frustrates us most about God! Indeed, this is the biblical approach to life.

The anchoring passage for our Stronger Challenge has been the Israelites crossing the Jordan River in Joshua 3. They didn’t know the desert and they had to learn how to trust God in this unknown.

Have you ever heard of Caleb in the Bible? If not, you’re in for an inspiring challenge. When the twelve spies went into the land of Canaan to scout it out, it was Caleb who spoke up after the recon mission and said they could take the land.

Jonah preaches his message in Nineveh, the people repent, and in this final teaching we learn that God forgives the Ninevites. In these times, God desires to birth something new within us, and allow us to see the new thing He’s doing.