2 Pillars Church - Sermon Audio

How much does Jesus love you? And how do you know? In Matthew 26, we see Jesus moving steadily toward the cross—knowing exactly what was coming, wrestling in Gethsemane with the cup of God’s wrath, and then willingly embracing the Father’s plan. This familiar story of betrayal, abandonment, and agony is ultimately a story of love. As we behold Jesus, we see that His death was not an accident or a...

The Bible is fascinatingly honest about our shortcomings. It doesn’t hide the weakness, unfaithfulness, fear, sin, and fragility of God’s people—it puts them on display. Why? Because we are fallen, finite, fragile people who falter. And that’s precisely the point of the Lord’s Supper. As Jesus shares the Passover meal with disciples who will betray, deny, and desert Him, He reframes the meal aroun...

What is Jesus’ death worth to you? We all put a value on things—and sometimes we discover we’ve badly underestimated what something is actually worth. In Matthew 26, as Jesus moves toward the cross, we meet people who place radically different values on His death: some see Him as barely worth anything, others let someone else determine His value, and even His own disciples don’t yet grasp what He...

Psalm 41

What do we do when we’re waiting for God’s deliverance—especially when the waiting is difficult, painful, or the consequences of sin seem more than we can take? Psalm 40 teaches us that remembering God’s grace in the past helps us rely on God’s grace in the present.

One of the difficult realities of life as a Christian is that while our sins are forgiven when we trust in Jesus, and the wrath of God that we deserve for our sins is removed, the consequences of our sins are not immediately removed in this life. God disciplines those whom He loves. But what are we to do when God’s discipline seems more than we can take? Psalm 39 teaches us that when God’s hand is...

What do you do when your conscience won’t let you forget your sin? Psalm 38 gives us a path from guilt to peace: receive God’s conviction, renounce our attempts at self-justification, and find rest in Christ. David’s burden was too heavy for him to carry—but not too heavy for Jesus. Our peace isn’t found in the completeness of our confession, but in the completeness of Christ’s atonement.

A real temptation of Christians is to look at the lives of non-Christians and feel envy. Envy when we see them succeeding and we're not; envy over some happiness they're experiencing; envy when we labor so hard to follow after Christ and yet see others being rewarded in the world. It can make us wonder: is following Jesus worth it? Psalm 37 teaches us that it is. Psalm 37 teaches us that following...

The gospel isn't just the ABCs of Christianity—it's the A-to-Z of the Christian life. We never outgrow our need for the good news of Jesus. In Psalm 36, David shows us why: left to ourselves, our hearts drift toward sin, but God's steadfast love continually draws us back to life. This psalm teaches us to preach and pray the gospel over ourselves, continually. As we remember both the depth of our n...

What do you do when others tell lies about you? When you're falsely accused, mocked, betrayed, hurt by others unjustly, and want revenge? In situations like these, Psalm 35 teaches us that vindication, not vengeance, is the way of Jesus' people.

Praise the Lord because He blesses those who take refuge in Him.

Psalm 33 is a psalm of praise. It calls us to worship, gives us reasons to worship, but also describes the result of worship: strengthened faith. So whether your faith is weak or strong, Psalm 33 invites you to praise the Lord and let your praise strengthen your faith.

We spend our lives chasing happiness, yet Psalm 32 points us to a joy greater than wealth, success, vacations, or even our closest relationships. David invites us to experience the deep blessing of God and exhorts us to rejoice in the joy of God's forgiveness by honestly confessing our sin to Him.

Psalm 31 is a prayer for seasons of distress—when trouble surrounds you, when there is terror on every side, and when you desperately need strength. That may be where you are today. And if it's not where you are today, it will be you someday. So whether today, or someday, when you find yourself in distress and need strength, turn to Psalm 31 and be strong as you wait on the Lord because the Lord p...

The Christian life is not a straight line of spiritual progress. Like David, we often stumble, drift, and find ourselves suffering the consequences of our sin. Yet this isn't a psalm of confession—it is a psalm of praise. One that teaches us to praise God, now and forever, for His restoring grace—something every Christian needs.

What comes into your mind when you think about God? A.W. Tozer famously argued that nothing is more important, because our understanding of God shapes the way we live. In Psalm 29, David gives us a breathtaking vision of God's power. The God who welcomes us into His presence (Psalm 27) and shepherds His people with mercy (Psalm 28) is also the sovereign King whose voice thunders with unmatched pow...

One of the most common objections to Christianity is that Christians think they're better than everyone else because we believe we're going to heaven and everyone else is going to hell—that there will be a judgment, and we'll be on the right side of it. We do actually believe that; but not in a "we're better than you kind of way." Not at all. Psalm 28 teaches us how to have a confident, yet humble...

Fear reaches all of us. Fear of the unknown. Fear of failure. Fear of rejection. Fear of not being enough, not having enough, or not being able to change ourselves or others. And often, fear drives unhealthy responses in our lives—anxiety, anger, insecurity, passivity, escapism, and despair. In Psalm 27, David shows us a different response. Rather than running from fear or being ruled by it, David...

In just 350 years, Christianity spread from a small, unimpressive band of ordinary men on the edge of the Roman Empire to millions of believers across the empire itself. Humanly speaking, it made no sense. The disciples lacked power, education, influence, and status. Yet the church grew with astonishing speed, just as Jesus promised it would. Christ declared that he would build his church, that th...

As we arrive at Acts 19:23–41, we're told that "the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily" (Acts 19:20). The Gospel is on the move in Asia. In our passage, we see that this Gospel, the same Gospel that we continue to preach today, is a threat and a danger to false gods because it exposes the emptiness of idols, the hearts of idolaters, and the danger of idolatry.

What do you do with the person who seems completely unmoved by Christianity—the intelligent, thoughtful, culturally aware friend who doesn’t hate Christianity so much as find it irrelevant? The person who is confident, even “sound,” in their non-Christian convictions? In Acts 17, the Apostle Paul walks into Athens—the intellectual and cultural center of the ancient world—and comes face to face wit...

What do you do with the person who seems completely unmoved by Christianity—the intelligent, thoughtful, culturally aware friend who doesn’t hate Christianity so much as find it irrelevant? The person who is confident, even “sound,” in their non-Christian convictions? In Acts 17, the Apostle Paul walks into Athens—the intellectual and cultural center of the ancient world—and comes face to face wit...

We live in a culture filled with competing allegiances, where ultimate meaning is sought in politics, success, sexuality, comfort, family, or self-expression. While pluralism has brought many freedoms, it has also created confusion about what—or who—deserves our ultimate loyalty.

In Acts 16, the Holy Spirit prevents the Apostle Paul from continuing his missionary activity in Asia, instead calling him to preach the gospel in Macedonia. This brings Paul and his fellow travelers to the city of Philippi where they have three encounters in which we see the gospel advance by God’s power, through their faithful proclamation.

Some of the most difficult people to share the gospel with are those who consider themselves to be Christians, but very likely are not. We might call them "religious" or "cultural Christians"—those who believe in God, are familiar with God, church, and perhaps even the Bible; and yet, seem to lack faith in Jesus. What we see in Acts 13 as Paul preaches in Pisidian Antioch is that the gospel confro...