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Philippians 4:8-9 ESV · Choosing Joy · 35 min You met Jesus, so why do old habits still cling to you? What you feed your mind each day decides whether you stay stuck or finally become who God says you are.
2 Peter 1:3-11 ESV · Choosing Joy · 40 min You're saved and at peace with God — so isn't that enough? Peter's collapse and restoration reveal why grace is the starting line, not the finish.
Habakkuk 3:17-19 ESV · Choosing Joy · 44 min You've been running each day on autopilot, coping so long you've forgotten what living feels like. That's survival mode, and staying there slowly kills you. Habakkuk names the same crushing loss—no crops, no income, no relief in sight—then makes a choice: he will rejoice. Admitting how weak you are and how strong God is lets you choose joy.
Revelation 3:14-22 ESV · Revealing the Lion and Lamb · 32 min You think you're fine — comfortable, capable, needing nothing. But that quiet self-assurance may be exactly what Christ warns against. His letter to Laodicea exposes how success and routine can leave you spiritually lukewarm: going through the motions, blind to your own need. See what it costs to trade that in for living faith.
Revelation 3:7-12 ESV · Revealing the Lion and Lamb · 45 min What happens when following Jesus costs you your family, your community, your safety? The church in Philadelphia faced that pressure, and so did a blind man Jesus healed in John 9. Both discovered that the door Jesus opens, no one can shut—and once you're in, no one can throw you out.
Revelation 3:1-6 ESV · Revealing the Lion and Lamb · 40 min Everyone said the church at Sardis was thriving — Jesus called it dead. You can earn praise, belonging, and a fine reputation while something vital quietly dies inside you. Revelation 3 confronts the most comfortable lie: that what people think of you has anything to do with what God actually sees.
Revelation 2:18-29 ESV · Revealing the Lion and Lamb · 48 min Your church community may be warm, generous, and growing — yet still tolerate a voice that is quietly leading people away from God. Jesus sees it all, and He holds leaders and congregations accountable. This passage draws the line between love that confronts and love that enables, and shows what genuine faithfulness costs.
Revelation 2:12-17 ESV · Revealing the Lion and Lamb · 46 min Tolerance is one of culture's highest values — but can it become a sin? When false teaching creeps into the church dressed as compassion or open-mindedness, Christ says: enough. He sees where you live, commends your faithfulness, and calls you to repent of the one thing you thought was virtuous — looking the other way.
Revelation 2:8-11 · Revealing the Lion and Lamb · 38 min When your faith costs you everything — your income, your freedom, your life — does it hold? Smyrna's church lost it all and refused to bend. Jesus speaks to them not as a distant King but as one who has been there: tested, imprisoned, killed, and risen. What He promises them, He promises you.
What kind of ground is your soul right now? Jesus' Parable of the Sower reveals why the same seed lands in four different ways — and the difference is never the seed's fault. Discover what surrender, humility, forgiveness, and grace add to the soil of your life, and how to bear fruit even in your driest season.
Revelation 2:1-7 ESV · Revealing the Lion and Lamb 46 min You can be doctrinally sound, suffering for Christ's name, and faithfully guarding the truth — and still have abandoned your first love for Jesus. This passage asks how passion cools without warning, names the quiet dissatisfaction that sustained conflict breeds, and calls you back to the garden where God always wanted you.
Revelation 1:9-20 ESV · Revealing the Lion and Lamb · 42 min What do you do when your circumstances tell you God has abandoned you? John writes from a prison island — not bitter, but worshipping. This sermon unpacks a vision of the glorified Christ that reframes suffering, corrects how you read your circumstances, and calls you back to the church you were made to serve.
Revelation 1:4-8 ESV · Revealing the Lion and Lamb · 48 min You know Jesus as the lamb who died for you — but do you know Him as the Almighty? Revelation 1:4-8 peels back a one-sided view of Christ to reveal the God whose name is I Am: sovereign judge, eternal ruler, and the one every eye will see.
Most people avoid Revelation because it feels too strange, too dangerous, too easy to get wrong. In Revelation 1:1–3, the book opens not with a warning but with a promise — a specific blessing for anyone who reads, hears, and holds on to what is written. This sermon unpacks what that blessing actually means: not a passive exposure to information, but the kind of hearing that says "I want that," and the kind of keeping that looks like carrying on with your homework while the plane flies through the storm. If you have ever picked up Revelation and put it back down, this is a good place to start.
You are somewhere in the middle — past the beginning, not yet at the end — and the question is what you are doing with that space. Joel 2 splits down the middle: one half already fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, one half still coming, and right now you are living in the gap between them. This sermon traces that gap through three sites — a Roman hippodrome where Christians knelt in gravel sand and died rather than deny what they believed, ancient temple steps where a small crowd sang louder than every mosque in Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives where every prophecy from Joel to Zechariah to
Standing inside Caiaphas' house — the high priest who ordered Jesus' arrest — and finding the torture pillars still in the rock, leather still threaded through the holes, is the kind of thing that stops you mid-sentence. This sermon follows a visit to Jerusalem: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre with its 300-year argument over a ladder, the garden tomb where every detail of the resurrection accounts lines up with the archaeology, and the Mount of Olives where a geological fault sits exactly where Zechariah said it would. The question it keeps returning to is why, with all of that sitting in sto
Acts 28:17-31 ESV After three days he called together the local leaders of the Jews, and when they had gathered, he said to them, “Brothers, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. [18] When they had examined me, they wished to set me at liberty, because there was no reason for the death penalty in my case. [19] But because the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar—though I had no charge to bring against my nation. [20] For this reason, therefore, I have asked to see
If you've ever quietly wondered whether faith is just a choice you make despite the evidence, Acts 28 pushes back on that. The account of Paul's shipwreck on Malta — the water depths, the geography, the anchors still being dug up from that bay, the title of the island's governor — has been cross-checked against archaeology, oceanography, and ancient records, and it holds. Acts 28:1–10 makes the case that if Luke got the mundane facts exactly right, the parts that can't be dug up or carbon-dated deserve the same serious hearing. For anyone sitting with doubt rather than certainty, this is a fai
Prolonged suffering is nobody’s desire. Nobody wants to be endure dark, cold, painful suffering. Nobody wants to be shipwrecked, we all want to be rescued. But what if the shipwreck is our rescue? Paul’s arrival in Malta ends weeks of suffering, but it also testifies to God’s grace and power. 275 people were given a once in a lifetime opportunity to know God and His goodness. That’s something far more valuable than a ship, it’s cargo and even the mortal lives of those on board. God can use shipwrecks to rescue us.
Paul’s voyage to Rome shows how Jesus Christ upholds the universe with His powerful Word. Storms are an apt metaphor for life. They can arise suddenly and can take us to the point of losing all hope, but they can do something else. Coming to the end of ourselves delivers us to the foot of the cross, where we can truly begin to trust in the Lord with all our hearts. This is a great gift and powerful liberation. The bumpier the road, the more obvious it becomes that Jesus is actually carrying us, not being a crutch.
We all long for freedom. So many things promise it, or some form or concept of it. But true freedom is not what it’s sold as. Freedom is not just being able to do what we want, more importantly, it’s the freedom of not having to do what we want. We don;t always want to do the right thing, or what is best for us and those we love. The compulsion to do what is bad for us and those around us is sin, and it’s consequence is ultimately death. The only freedom from this comes by faith in Christ Jesus and the subsequent work of the Holy Spirit of God. Paul’s time with some of the most powerful and po
Jesus died and was buried, delivered up for our trespasses.
Seven hundred years before the cross, Isaiah named exactly what would happen and why. Your sin, your rebellion, your broken nature—each one required blood. But when Jesus said "It is finished," the debt was paid in full. You don't carry that weight anymore.
Seven hundred years before the cross, Isaiah wrote about a Servant who would bear our griefs, be pierced for our transgressions, and heal us by His wounds. If that Servant is Jesus, it changes everything: Scripture is God's perfect word, one Bible reveals one faith, and every nation is saved by faith alone.
Paul stands trial before a corrupt judge, facing accusations designed to kill him. Yet in that courtroom, everything inverts: the accused becomes free, the accusers stand condemned. When you grasp that God's judgment is certain, you discover the only peace that can outlast injustice—and the freedom to speak life to your accusers.
