Gospel Life Sermons

Matthew 28:16-20 is Jesus' commission to His first disciples and therefore it is also His commission to His church ever since. Which means if you're not a Christian this morning, this is Jesus' life purpose for you; for us in our community. TRUTH: No one has ever been chosen to just be a recipient of the amazing grace of God has also been commissioned to be an instrument of that same work of grace...

Everyone is born with an innate sense of justice because we’re all gloriously made in the image and likeness of God – WHO IS JUST! But the truth is we all want the offender to get what is coming to him because we all desire for JUSTICE to be served. Now this is good, but when we choose to accomplish this ourselves it’s condemnable wrath. The good news is that Jesus took our wrath along with every...

The dictionary definition of laziness is the quality of being unwilling to work or use energy. It’s idleness, apathy, indifference or complacency. This means that laziness might be bigger than most people think at first and therefore could possibly expand to who is a sluggard. Laziness is a lack of productivity, but also excessive productivity in the wrong direction!

Pride is the most deceitful, dangerous and deadly sin. God promises to crush it wherever He finds it. Jesus took our pride upon Himself on the cross, where he was crushed in our place. Through His humble obedience He defeated Pride and gives us His humility to be accepted by ther Father.

The world will tell us that we can define sexuality on our own terms and serves us the narrative that sex exists solely for the purpose of making us feel good. This caters to the sinful desire of lust in each of us and teaches us to dishonor image bearers and disregard God in the process. Thankfully, our God provides a remedy for our lust and a way for us to honor Him with our sexuality! Join this...

When we think about greed we might envision a money hungry executive or plotting bank robber but biblical greed isn’t that simple. Greed is both the love of money and the trust in money, the belief that money will make you happy and the use of money to get what you want. The problem with greed is not that we worship money but that we worship what money will give us and Jesus wants to redeem our id...

The way of the wise aligns our heart to Jesus and gives us full satisfaction. The way of self leads to overindulgence that suffocates our satisfaction and leads us to despair. The gospel frees us to direct our hearts to the way of Jesus.

Envy is the byproduct of discontentedness. And when we envy, we make clear our lack of faith in the gospel! Trusting and following Jesus – Believing the gospel – living life according to the Scriptures, following the Holy Sprit in your daily living, will lead you into a life satisfaction, purpose, meaning, value and worth. And this is what the book of proverbs is all about. Read Proverbs 14:30. It...

Proverbs shows the beauty of wisdom and how it guides us to live well in God’s world. Unfortunately, we all pridefully turn from wise living and go against the fear of the Lord, which the Bible calls foolishness. Jesus came to destroy Satan, the great fool, to die for our foolishness, and to give us his Spirit of wisdom.

Receiving and treasuring wisdom will lead God's people into a healthy fear of the Lord and an intimate knowledge of God. This receiving and treasuring wisdom are gifts of grace, flowing from the disciplines of Listening to God with Humilty, Praying to God with Expectancy, and Pursuing God with Intentionality. When God’s people celebrate their rescue and cultivate their relationship with Him by cli...

What voice are you listening to? God makes the voice of his wisdom known to all of us, but we must choose between listening to His voice or listening to the voice of the flesh, this world, and Satan. One voice leads to life and rest while the other voice leads to death. This passage invites us to ultimately look to Jesus, the wisdom and perfect revelation of God, and to filter every decision in ou...

Wisdom is important, but impossible without looking to God and then to others first. Even the wisdom of Solomon is just a shadow of the perfect wisdom of Jesus. We worship him for who he is, and this powers our purusuit of it.

The outworking of repentance and faith is being devoted to fellowship, serving, generosity, and mission within the context of the local church that always extended into the community for the advancement of the kingdom and the glory of God.

Using imagery and illustration, Jesus confronts an affluent culture right between the eyes. Jesus here, is showing the self-reliant, great love and unmatched grace – this is really good news! – he’s wanting to set them free. He’s exposing their sin of self-trust that is deceiving them, so that they can enjoy something so much better. This whole section is grace – it’s a grace-filled, loving rebuke...

On the surface that church at Philadelphia was the weakest of the seven churches. They were smaller, had a less distinguished reputation, and had been beat up by religious oppression, physical trials, and hardship. However, they had been consistently faithful to Jesus Christ. Knowing this, Jesus knows their condition and gives no rebuke to this church, only promises of comfort. This letter gives m...

Religion and reputation possess the great ability to blind people to their need for real righteousness, and as a result are powerful illusions falsely assuring salvation. In other words, Religion. Even participating in a church community can provide a good life and a clean reputation. It can produce NICE people, but what if God demands more than nice? What if his standard is much higher? What if h...

Jesus came to us the first time, FULL of Grace and Truth. His church is called to represent Him on the earth until He returns a second time. We the church must not cling to just one aspect of Christ, but seek to Declare His Gospel and Display His Glory, by the way we LOVE one another in WORD and DEED.

Jesus commends the church in Pergamum for keeping their eyes on him in a evil city that actively persecutes Christians. However, they’ve let a little too much of the world into their beliefs, actions, and daily lives and Jesus is calling for them to change. Thankfully, he gives them exactly what they need for that type of transformation: Himself!

Suffering is an inevitable part of life, so either we face it in fear and grow bitter in our heart, or we see it as grace and run and cling to Jesus!

Jesus knows everything, and because He is faithful and loves His people intimately and unconditionally, He will not allow anything to keep them from enjoying the gifts of His grace!

How do we disciple the next generation? We love God personally, repent regularly, teach scripture practically, and participate in church together faithfully.

Jesus changes everything and by design each local church is a tool of grace; a vehicle of remembering, intended to battle our forgetfulness, so we can enjoy Jesus and participate in the building God’s Kingdom in our community!

The grace of God contains the power to completely transform a human life! Not only does faith in Jesus provide security for the future, but because Jesus not only died for sin, but also lived, the grace of God contains the power to change everything. Jesus changes everything.

The death of Jesus Christ is the turning point of the biblical storyline and human history. On the cross Jesus is abandoned, punished, and killed for us and believer’s are declared holy, blameless, and above reproach because fo the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on their behalf. We are called to cling to this essential doctrine as believers and remember this hope of the gospel in our everyday lives!

The grace of God contains the power to completely transform a human life! Not only does faith in Jesus provide security for the future, but because Jesus not only died for sin, but also lived, the grace of God contains the power to change everything. Jesus changes everything.