Gospel Life Sermons

The story of 1 & 2 Samuel shows us how every earthly king ultimately points us to God as the only King that any of us will ever need. However, as we read 1 Samuel 8, it’s clear that the disease of our sin blinds us from accepting Him as our King and we end up placing all of our hope in everything but Him. Thankfully, God has sent His Son, Jesus, to meet us in our sin with His salvation and satisfa...

Jesus final words in John’s Gospel account are: “You follow me!”. The life of following Jesus is a call to humble obedience and a life of complete dependance upon His grace. As His disciples we fall short of that call all the time. Knowing this, Jesus starts and finishes this book with the same call; “Follow me.” Revealing that no matter how many times we sin and fall short of glorifying Him, He n...

It’s finally here! Jesus is alive! In John 20, we learn that Jesus Christ rose from the grave and, beginning with Mary, we start to see the mourning, confusion, and chaos of the disciples be suddenly and decidedly transformed into celebration, confidence, and clarity when they see their resurrected Lord. The resurrection of Jesus Christ changes our perspective because it changes our lives!

John 19:31-42 is so much more than just a transition passage between the death and resurrection of Jesus. Instead, John uses the space between the cross and the empty tomb to give us evidence verifying the death of Jesus Christ so that we can know that our faith is both trustworthy and true. With that, although my faith may be tested, I can trust that the the cross has been tested as true.

The symbol once used to intimidate people and kill them, would eventually be used as a symbol for an invitation for a right relationship with God. The symbol once used for shame and suffering, one day, would be used as a symbol of salvation to anyone who would believe and put their faith in God. The cross was once used for hell on earth, but today Christians see it as the door to eternity in parad...

In John 19 we will finally arrive at the crucifixion. Jesus will be flogged, beaten, falsely accused, and hung on a cross to die. The entire Old Testament was leading up to this moment and everything in human history changes because of it. However, John mentions another character at the end of John 18 that helps us truly understand the death of Christ - Barabbas. Why? The story of Barabbas accuses...

If we were honest, we all struggle with trying to control things in our lives. Jesus is inviting us to trust in His sovereign rule and reign over all things and set us free from our addiction to control. We have believed a lie, when we start trying to rule our own lives and those around us. Jesus has come to give us the TRUTH, about who He is and what He has done, to help us trust Him and enjoy th...

If there was a Gospel Truth found in today’s passage it would be redemption. Redemption is not found in us or anything in this world. Redemption is only found in Jesus! The enemy doesn’t want you redeemed. He doesn’t want you to be reconciled with God or His people. The enemy wants you distanced and destroyed. Jesus predicts Peter’s failure, Jesus experiences Peter’s failure, then Jesus redeems Pe...

In John 18, the story of the cross begins to unfold, and Jesus will be captured, beaten, imprisoned, and murdered. However, just when it look like things are spiraling out of control, John wants us to know that Jesus is in control of each and every part of it. Jesus is choosing this path because He knows that this is the path that will rescue us, and if Jesus was in control of this story, I can al...

There seems to be many things in our society that are causing division within the church. Jesus prayed for us the night before He went to the cross and asked the Father to make us one, as they are One. Jesus then bled and died to purchase our unity with Him and our unity with one another. We are called to display His glory by being united in Him. It is where we will find our joy and it is our witn...

In part two of Jesus’ prayer in John 17, we learn that Jesus is asking the Father to preserve our unity and our faith with His joy, His protection from the enemy, and His Word. Two thousand years after this prayer, the Christian continues to have great hope when trials come because we know that Jesus has already given us everything we need to stand firm and to stand together for His glory!

As we arrive at John 17, Jesus shifts from a posture of teaching to a posture of prayer, inviting us into an intimate conversation that He has with His Father mere hours before the cross. And while His prayer includes many things for us, John 17:1-15 shows that it is not about us. Instead, His prayer is all about glory and we learn that the glory of Jesus causes everything else to fade into the ba...

Like the disciples, we easily misunderstand Jesus when our belief is shallow. When we assume the “good news” is about our immediate problems and our vision of the good life, we are going to be disappointed, confused. However, a robust faith is led by the Spirit to see what God has done in Christ—the world is overcome and we have direct access to the Father—only then do we have peace and confidence...

We might be tempted to think that joy is found in the absence of sorrow, but Jesus tells us that true joy is found in His presence! Which means that we can have true joy, even while passing through some of life’s most sorrowful circumstances. As believers in Jesus, we have His Spirit alive in us and that is our guarantee of an eternity in His presence, where we will have infinite and indestructibl...

When Jesus is just hours away from his death, He tells his disciples not to be afraid about what’s to come – the Helper is coming! In fact, in light of His ascension, we learn that the Holy Spirit has been sent to convict us through the message of the gospel and comforts us through the man of the gospel – Jesus Christ!

When people say ‘church’ many different things tend to come to mind. For some, church brings up images of stained glass, potlucks, and pews while others might view the church as religious, irrelevant or detached. Additionally, many of us that go to church tend to define our perspective through the lens of our experiences and we rarely consider God’s design for the church and our role within it. Wi...

When people say ‘church’ many different things tend to come to mind. For some, church brings up images of stained glass, potlucks, and pews while others might view the church as religious, irrelevant or detached. Additionally, many of us that go to church tend to define our perspective through the lens of our experiences and we rarely consider God’s design for the church and our role within it. Wi...

When people say ‘church’ many different things tend to come to mind. For some, church brings up images of stained glass, potlucks, and pews while others might view the church as religious, irrelevant or detached. Additionally, many of us that go to church tend to define our perspective through the lens of our experiences and we rarely consider God’s design for the church and our role within it. Wi...

When people say ‘church’ many different things tend to come to mind. For some, church brings up images of stained glass, potlucks, and pews while others might view the church as religious, irrelevant or detached. Additionally, many of us that go to church tend to define our perspective through the lens of our experiences and we rarely consider God’s design for the church and our role within it. Wi...

Jesus spends quite a bit of time inviting his disciples to abide in John 15:1-17 and then, in the following passage, we learn why: a storm of persecution is coming. Jesus wants his followers to know that they’ll be excluded, hated, and even abused for knowing Him but He also wants us to know that the story will never end with persecution. Through persecution, we can know Jesus more and make him kn...

Friends of God! What an amazing truth for those who are in Christ Jesus. Even though Jesus is only hours away from being arrested, beaten and crucified; His focus is still on loving His disciples. He is giving them the pathway to fullness of joy…and it is to ABIDE in Him and love one another the way that He loves them! By this the Father is glorified!