Gospel Life Sermons

Underneath the debilitating emotion of fear is idolatry, and the sin beneath idolatry is a functional disbelief in the goodness and amazing grace of God. GOSPEL COMMUNITY DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: 1. What is your heart idolatry? 2. How are you going to remove it? 3. In what way is Jesus a better God than that idol?

The world we live in is a scary place – We Need a Shepherd. We need someone bigger, stronger who has more authority to lead us, guide us, protect us, and keep us, and even carry us home. GOSPEL COMMUNITY DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: 1. How are you dealing with your fear? Are you prone to try and get control, or run and hide? 2. "Where", "to what" or "from whom" are you looking for joy and life? 3. In wha...

Fear is a great tool, used by Satan to combat the Kingdom of God while trying to divide and distract and disorientate the church of Jesus Christ! But Jesus said something in Matthew 16 – “I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail.” This is only possible when you FEAR NOT. GOSPEL COMMUNITY DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: 1. What desire is truly ruling your heart? What is that desire produ...

Psalm 96 was to be used in Jewish cultures as a call that would summon the people to celebrate God’s rule over all of creation, and as a teaching tool that would show the people who should love and worship him. We'll take a look and see how Psam 96 reminds us as NT Christians, why and how our worship shows non-worshippers about the God we joyfully follow. The greatest legacy we can give as worship...

We live in a world filled with fear! People are afraid due to numerous circumstances that currently surround us – political, social, medical - Horizontal fear is overwhelming our world and is just as evident inside the church as it is outside. As believers, why do we live in fear like the rest of the world? Because fear is a byproduct of trusting in self, looking at self, and relying only on the r...

This Psalm is about the pathway to peace while living with trouble in a jacked-up world. Trouble is real. It's in me and all around me. BUT GOD... He uses trouble to show us our sin so that we can run to our Savior. This promotes worship of Jesus in us and bears fruit before others so they too can be saved, helped, comforted and cleansed.

JESUS IS THE SOURCE of TRUE HAPPINESS! All that He is. All that He has done for us. All that we are IN HIM! All that He PROVIDES for us NOW! And ALL that He PROMISES us for our FUTURE.... THOSE THINGS ARE TRUE and UNCHANGING!!! And IF our Happiness is ROOTED in Christ... Then it can be TRUE and UNCHANGING as well!

Psalm 117 is the shortest song in the book, but it is packed with a powerful promise. God is the Creator and Ruler over all nations and all people groups and as the One true and living God, He cares for His people and is faithful to keep His promises to them. Where do we turn to interpret our circumstances in a world and culture that celebrates and praises people over God? This Psalm is a reminder...

Nothing will drag us into disillusionment quicker than envy, jealousy, and comparison. In our social-media-driven world that’s an easier place to end up than ever. But Psalm 73 shows us the way out of disillusionment and into devotion. It begins with beholding the ‘better-ness’ of Jesus.

In a world where power is praised and dominion over others is demonstrated, Psalms 8 is a declaration that King Jesus will demonstrate His power and dominion through the weakness of His people. And that His majesty will be on display as He defeats our enemies - of Satan, sin and death - through meekness and humility as the King of Glory dies in our place on the cross.

Psalm 119 is both a celebration of the immense value of scripture and a picture of how the Word of God points us to a relationship with the God of the Word himself! In fact, our posture toward God’s Word will often reveal something about our relationship with the Lord and in this we need Jesus to change our hearts, anchor us in his truth, and show us how all of scripture points to and makes much o...

God illuminates His holiness and our need for a savior. David’s request to be washed clean by, and through, God (as his high priest) is foreshadowing, and ultimately fulfilled, in Jesus.

Real refuge in times of trouble is not experienced by fighting against it or fleeing from it, but only from knowing that God rules, God sees, God judges and God rewards those those who cling to Him by faith in Jesus.

Every single benefit we get to enjoy, has come to us through the finished work of Jesus on the Cross. When we forget Him, we cease to Praise Him... We will worship Jesus only when we remember what He has done!

The bible is the story that points to God’s forever victory over sin through His Son Jesus, so why would the bible dedicate more than 1/3 of the Book of Psalms to lament? Because depression should be expected in the life of a believer. Depression isn't the result of weak faith, it's the result of living in a sinful world; in a body that has been broken by sin. Psalm 77 sets a model for us in how w...

This Psalm is meant by God to reel us back into the grand biblical narrative – the story of God, so that we see our place (once again) and by his grace, remember our testimony of salvation, be reminded of his healing and also reflect on his redemptive leading into freedom, rest and peace. This call to COME is so we will once again prioritize God’s command to corporately gather and worship Him, as...

Great Enemy #1 is Temptation and Great Enemy #2 is Evil, or the producer of evil – The Evil one: Satan himself. Therefore, “Lead us NOT into Temptation, but deliver us from evil” is first an acknowledgement or reminder that we’re in a very real spiritual battle and second, we NEED God’s protection from them both or we may unwittingly become participants in Satan’s strategy – sadly opposing God’s w...

True forgiveness is a choice; it is made possible by love, and it completely absorbs the sinner of blame for their sin at great cost to the offended. With this in mind, Jesus invites us to experience the freedom of forgiveness from the Father and to then graciously extend it to others in love.

Give us this day our daily bread teaches us that God designed physical needs to point to our deeper spiritual and truest NEEDS. Our need for daily physical sustenance is a faint echo of and intended by God to be our daily – if not moment by moment need of spiritual sustenance and satisfaction from God.

“Your Kingdom come, Your Will be Done on earth as it is in heaven” is the most dangerous prayer we could ever pray. This prayer is calling us to submit to the will of our Father and give Him complete control of our lives; trusting Him with everything and for everything. Which is why I’m convinced that most Christians and most churches never truly pray it.

All things in Heaven and on earth exist for the Glory of God and the for the Praise of His Glorious Name. This first petition of “The Lord’s Prayer” is the foundation for the other 5 petitions that come next. Jesus is not just teaching us How to pray and Who to pray to - but what prayer is for - namely, that our Father be honored, esteemed, exhalted for Who He is and How He loves us! Jesus not onl...

Prayer is a posture of receiving God himself – the great reward! Because of Jesus and by faith in His finished work, believers can be in the presence of God, convinced that we are safe and secure in our Heavenly Father’s presence. We don’t need to beg or plead for anything as orphans, but we can trust that our dad loves us, that He has a plan, and that He's using the things in this world to transf...

The resurrection of Jesus Christ has secured a living hope for everyone who has placed their trust in him! This is the living hope of eternal life, a living hope that endures through trials and suffering, and a living hope that is possible through an actual relationship of faith with the risen Lord!

In the lives of those who live BY FAITH, there is a race that we are all called to run! It is not only the weight we choose to carry that can slow us down, but the sin of unbelief and trying to run it alone, will always keep us from running well. We the church must run the race together, looking to Jesus, who ran the race perfectly for us! Who finished the race in our place! Who is calling us to f...

The Christian life is often like a car: it needs fuel to go, it needs a driver, it needs a motivation, and it needs a resource by which to empower it. The Bible calls that resource FAITH; and Hebrews 11:29-31 gives us three stories to show us one big idea: that our faith is fueled when we apply God’s Word and his promises to our specific situations.