Boynton Beach Community Church (BBCC)

Philadelphia has little strength, and Jesus has no rebuke for it. In this sermon, Pastor Sam Sutter explores how his letter in Revelation 3:7-13 offers encouragement to Christians who are tired and wondering whether their faithfulness amounts to much. Some weeks, obedience means doing the same hard thing again. You keep your word, show up for somebody, or pray when you have very little left to say...

Jesus tells Sardis, a church with a reputation for being alive, that it is dead. Revelation 3:1-6 asks whether the story people tell about our faith still describes the life we're living. A church can keep its calendar full long after it stops depending on Christ. An individual can do the same. We can remember when prayer mattered, when we took a risk to obey, or when we expected God to work, and...

What do you do when keeping your job seems to require keeping your mouth shut? Revelation 2:18-29 brings the pressure of work and belonging into Jesus' letter to Thyatira. This church is growing in love and service. Jesus praises that growth, then confronts its tolerance of teaching that leads people into sin. We consider the setting of Thyatira's trade guilds and the compromises Christians may ha...

Revelation 2:12-17 describes a church that stayed faithful through persecution and began accepting compromise around the dinner table. Jesus' letter to Pergamum asks where belonging has become more important to us than obedience. Antipas had been killed, and the church still held to Jesus' name. Yet some were following teaching that made idolatry and sexual immorality acceptable. We often recogniz...

Jesus' letter to Smyrna in Revelation 2:8-11 speaks to Christians facing suffering and wondering whether faithfulness is getting them anywhere. You pray, keep showing up, and try to do the right thing. The situation gets harder. Smyrna knew that experience. Jesus sees their poverty and the slander against them, and he warns that more trouble is coming. He also calls them rich. In this message in C...

Can you keep doing everything at church and lose the love that got you there? Jesus' letter to Ephesus in Revelation 2:1-7 puts that question to a hardworking congregation. They've endured trouble. They've tested false teachers. Jesus sees the hours they've put in, and he also sees what has happened to their love. It's possible to keep a ministry running while growing cold toward the people you're...

Revelation 1:9-20 opens Church Reviews with a picture of the risen Jesus standing among his churches. What changes when we realize he's already in the room? Most of us know how to look fine when somebody's watching. We can do it at church, too. John sees the Lord who knows what's happening underneath that performance, and the vision drops him at Jesus' feet. Then Jesus puts his hand on him and tel...

Psalm 16 sermon on fear of loss, grief, and where your security actually comes from. Pastor Sam Sutter asks: What is the one thing you could lose and not know who you are anymore? You already know the answer. Psalm 16 is a prayer for people who have figured out that the things we most want to keep are the things we have the least power to guarantee. We get into the land language David reaches for...

Psalm 131 sermon on anxiety, control, and unanswered prayer, for anyone waiting on an outcome they can’t force. Ever been completely still on the outside while something inside you paces the room? Psalm 131 is three verses long, and it names the exact moment a good desire quietly turns into a demand. David doesn’t claim he was born calm. He says he stilled and quieted his soul, and the picture he...

Psalm 127 sermon on work, legacy, burnout, and what you’re actually building your life on. Imagine your own funeral. Nobody stands up and says he kept his inbox at zero. So what are you building that’s still going to be standing when you’re not? Psalm 127 says the builders still build and the watchmen still watch, but the house doesn’t hold because you held it. We get into what "unless the LORD bu...

Psalm 62 sermon on waiting, anxiety, and what to do when you can’t control what happens next. If you’re living inside a ""wait and see"" right now, waiting on test results, waiting on a phone call, waiting on a kid to come home, this one’s for you. David wrote Psalm 62 in the middle of the trouble, not after it resolved. He still felt like a leaning wall. And he still said his soul finds rest in G...

Betrayed by a friend? Hurt by someone in your church, your family, or your marriage? Psalm 55 is the prayer for you. In this sermon on Psalm 55:22 — ""Cast your burden on the Lord and He will sustain you"" — we walk through what the Bible actually says about betrayal, church hurt, forgiveness, and trusting God when the wound won't go away. David doesn't tidy up his feelings. He tells God about the...

Psalm 61 sermon on anxiety, overwhelm, and what to do when life is heavier than your strength. This back to school message walks through David's prayer, "lead me to the rock that is higher than I",  and asks the question most of us are too tired to say out loud: what happens when you don't got this? We look at how God hears you from the farthest place you can feel, why ""lead me"" is the hard...

Psalm 63 sermon on thirsting for God in the wilderness — what do you do when your soul feels empty and nothing you reach for actually satisfies? This message walks through David's prayer in the Wilderness of Judah, where a dry and weary land exposed a deeper thirst than water could fix. We look at why we keep reaching for our phones, our work, control, comfort, and other people's approval, and wha...

Psalm 27 sermon on fear, anxiety, and trusting God when you're afraid. If fear has been loud lately — fear about a diagnosis, your marriage, your kids, money, your job, or a future you can't control — this message walks through one of the most honest prayers in the Bible. David doesn't pretend the danger isn't real. He's got enemies, armies, false witnesses, the whole thing. But his courage doesn'...

The journey to joy — what does Jesus want for you when happiness feels out of reach? In this sermon on biblical joy, guest pastor Rev. Dudley Hodges (BBCC's former pastor) walks through the difference between the joy Jesus gives and the kind of happiness that comes and goes with your circumstances. One depends on a good day. The other holds steady on the hard ones. If you've ever wondered how to f...

Peace that perseveres — what does Jesus actually want for you when life won't let up? In this sermon, guest pastor Rev. Dudley Hodges (BBCC's former pastor) digs into the kind of peace Jesus promises in the middle of trouble, anxiety, and seasons that just don't get easier on schedule. This isn't the calm that depends on everything going right. It's deeper than that. If you're searching for hope i...

Psalm 13 sermon — ""How Long, Lord?"" A message about lament, waiting on God, and what to do when God feels silent or far away. If you've ever prayed and felt forgotten, asked God ""how long"" before something changes, or wondered whether He's still paying attention to your life, this one's for you. We walk through David's prayer in Psalm 13...

Psalm 27 sermon on fear, anxiety, and trusting God when you're afraid. If fear has been loud lately — fear about a diagnosis, your marriage, your kids, money, your job, or a future you can't control — this message walks through one of the most honest prayers in the Bible. David doesn't pretend the danger isn't real. He's got enemies, armies, false witnesses, the whole thing. Bu...

What does the Bible really say about confession, hidden sin, guilt, and shame? In this sermon on Psalm 32, we walk through one of the great penitential psalms—David's honest account of what happens when we keep silent versus when we finally tell the truth. If you've ever felt the weight of unconfessed sin, the exhaustion of hiding, or the fear that God won't forgive what you've done, this message...

You were never meant to be the one holding everything together. Psalm 46 was written by a family that watched their own world literally cave in, and somehow they became the people who taught everyone else how to sing. In this message, Pastor Samuel Sutter walks through Psalm 46, the ancient worship song behind Martin Luther's "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God," and shows why its most quo...

What if being fully known by God is not something to fear, but the beginning of freedom? In this sermon from Psalm 139, we explore how God knows our thoughts, our hidden places, our stories, and our fears, and how Jesus makes it possible to be fully known without being condemned. If you have ever felt unseen, unknown, or afraid to be honest with God, this message is for you. Join us at 9:00am or 1...

Most of us have felt it—the ache that there has to be more to life than the daily routine. We look for it in adventure, romance, career, retreats, nostalgia, new experiences. We chase the mountaintop. In Mark 9, Peter, James, and John actually get one: Jesus transfigured before their eyes, his clothes brighter than anything on earth, Moses and Elijah standing beside him, the voice of the Father th...

Why do some kids grow up godly and others grow up greedy—even when they're raised in the same home? Why do well-raised kids sometimes go off the rails, and poorly-raised kids sometimes turn out remarkable? In Mark 7, the Pharisees ask Jesus a ""good parent"" question about tradition and training, and Jesus gives a shocking answer: the problem isn't outside of us. It&#39...

There's an entire industry in America dedicated to influencing powerful people. Lobbyists know the right time, the right gift, the right approach. So how do you approach the most powerful person in the universe? In Mark 7, a Gentile woman with a demon-possessed daughter does everything ""wrong""—wrong ethnicity, wrong gender, wrong timing, wrong credentials. Jesus calls her...