Covenant Grace Sermons

We all want to go up — approved, respected, thought well of. So we climb. But Proverbs warns that pride’s climb runs backward: the harder you push, the further down you go. Humility walks the other way — down on purpose — and it’s the only direction that leads anywhere good. At the heart of it all is Jesus’ humility for us — the one who descended all the way down and came out exalted, freeing you...

Why do you do the things you do? You're the one doing them, yet you don't fully understand why. The answer lies deeper than your behavior—in the source from which everything flows: your heart. What is the nature of our hearts? What did Jesus come to do about them? How should we guard something so vital?

Proverbs tells us its own purpose in a single line: all this wisdom, made known to you, that your trust may be in the Lord. But trust is never neutral — what you lean your whole weight on is what you worship, and we are all worshippers whether we admit it or not. We turn to Jeremiah's haunting image of two evils: forsaking the fountain of living waters and hewing out our own broken cisterns th...

You can't provide for yourself. You can't protect yourself. But there's a strong Redeemer who can — and does.

We are far better at spotting crookedness in others than confessing the crookedness in ourselves. Proverbs shows us that the Lord weighs our dealings, our hearts, and our worship, and His holy scale exposes more than we want to admit. But Christ, the truly Upright One, was weighed for crooked sinners so that in Him, we become the delight of God.

Sin makes us want to hide — but what if we can't? It's a terrifying thought: that our deepest, darkest parts lie exposed to a holy God who not only sees but weighs and tries all things. But the work of Jesus changes what His gaze means. In Christ, His eyes look on us with love not wrath, and His fire is not judgment but a refining that ends in glory.

You are not the master of your fate or the captain of your soul. The Lord reigns - and the cross of Christ is the proof that his rule is good news. A sermon on providence in Proverbs.

You are constantly being evangelized. Voices loud and quiet, outside and within, are calling you to one of two tables. In the climax of Proverbs' prologue, Solomon shows us that all these voices are actually only two. They are invitations — to two tables. One ends in life. The other ends in a grave. A sermon on Proverbs 9 — and a plea to come to the table where Christ himself is the feast.

Many have asked why bad things happen to good people. But Psalm 73 presses into something perhaps more difficult: why do good things happen to bad people? Why do the arrogant prosper? Why do the proud seem at ease? And why does faithfulness sometimes feel completely pointless? This sermon follows Asaph through a real crisis of faith: when what he sees nearly overpowers what he knows, when doubt mu...

A voice is crying out in the streets. She calls to the simple, the foolish, the ones who have already disqualified themselves. She gives what no one else can give. And before the foundation of the world, her delight was set on you. 

Complacency kills. Not dramatically. Not all at once. One small, passive, directionless step at a time — until a man arrives somewhere he never intended to go and doesn't know how he got there. Proverbs 6:20–7:27 shows us the anatomy of that drift, the irreversible cost it carries, and the only protection that actually works — not trying harder, but being bound to the one who is himself the wi...

What does foolishness actually look like? Not the dramatic, obvious kind — but the everyday kind that creeps in quietly, compounds slowly, and blindsides you when the consequences finally arrive? In this sermon from Proverbs 6, we walk through several portraits of folly: the surety-taker who speaks away his freedom, the sluggard who can't see past the present moment, the scoundrel whose corrup...

Most of us know we’re supposed to be faithful. What we don’t know is why it’s actually the better deal — or how to want it when the counterfeit looks so good. Proverbs 5 answers both questions. This sermon works through the anatomy of sexual temptation, the total cost of folly, and the only thing with enough power to reorient desire at the root: the astonishing, undeserved faithfulness of Christ t...

Everything in Christianity hinges on a risen Christ. Which raises the most important question any of us can ask: where do we find him? On the road to Emmaus, Jesus himself answers — and his answer is more ordinary, more accessible, and more glorious than we might expect.

Most people know these as the shortest verse in the Bible. But John 11 isn't the only place Jesus wept. On Palm Sunday, surrounded by crowds shouting hosanna, Jesus crested the Mount of Olives — and wept over Jerusalem. Not for himself. Not for what he was about to suffer. He wept for his killers. In those tears we find something remarkable: the heart of God toward sinners, and the only reason...

There's a question people have been wrestling with since Eden — if knowing what is right isn't enough to make us do it, what is? Proverbs 4 sets two roads before us with urgent clarity, charges us to guard our hearts above everything else, and then leaves us staring at a problem we cannot solve ourselves. But the text doesn't leave us there. This sermon traces the arc from wisdom recei...

Wisdom loves. That's not just a nice sentiment — it's the claim of Proverbs 3:27-35. Wisdom shows itself not in what you know but in how you treat the people around you. In this sermon we look at what that looks like on the ground — in the ordinary moments when we have it in our power to do good, and the deeper reason we so often don't. At the root of every scheme, every withheld kindn...

A fish without the ability to swim can't access its world's goodness or avoid its dangers. We're in the same position without wisdom. Proverbs 3:13–26 shows us what wisdom actually is, what it gives, and what it protects — and why the answer to all three is ultimately a person, not a principle.

Where do you find real joy, and what do you really need to be okay? In Philippians 4:4–13, Paul exposes the lies that can fester beneath anxiety and jealousy. If someone else is ahead, we feel behind. If we could just hold it all together, nothing would fall apart. If we had a little more, we would finally be settled. Paul offers something better. Joy in the Lord. Peace that guards the heart. A mi...

What does God actually feel toward you? Proverbs 3 says He delights in His children. When wisdom sees that grace, it frees us to trust the Lord with all our hearts and walk in faithful obedience — not to earn sonship, but because we already have it in Christ.

There are two ways to live. One is wide, easy, and crowded — and it ends in destruction. The other is narrow, demanding, and often lonely — but it leads to life. In Proverbs 2, a father pleads with his son to pursue wisdom with urgency and conviction. Not casually. Not half-heartedly. But like a miner digging for silver. This chapter shows us that wisdom must be pursued, yet it is ultimately God’s...

In Proverbs 1:20–33, Wisdom steps into the open and cries out—publicly, urgently, and graciously. In this sermon, we explore the storyline of Proverbs, where two voices call and two paths are set before us: wisdom and folly, life and destruction. We consider the grace of Wisdom’s invitation, the sobering reality of rejected counsel, and the biblical principle that we ultimately “eat the fruit of o...

We are always being shaped by the voices we listen to. Proverbs 1:8–19 helps us learn how to discern between the voice of wisdom that leads to life and the voice of folly that entices and destroys. This sermon examines how God uses authority to form us in wisdom, how sin speaks persuasively while concealing its end, and how Jesus Christ—the wisdom of God—rescues sinners who have already listened t...

In Proverbs 1:1–7, we see that wisdom begins not with information but with worship: “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge.” This sermon explores what the fear of the Lord is (and isn’t), distinguishing dread that drives us from God from reverent awe that draws us near. We consider how knowing God rightly becomes the most important knowledge, how it grounds all other understanding, an...

Proverbs 1:1-6 Life rarely follows the plan. When good intentions collide with real pressure—conflict, temptation, disappointment, or grief—we discover how much wisdom we actually lack. In this sermon on Proverbs 1:2–6, we explore the purpose of Proverbs: not merely to inform us, but to  form  us. Scripture calls us to a posture of teachability, a lifelong process of training, and a clear end—a li...