A Good Word with Pastor Josh (PCUSA)

Round Rock Pride - Faith Leaders Panel

2025 092825 - Baptism - Amelia Jeanne Cobb

2025 092725 - Memorial - Fred Widmer

This week, we explored the challenging parable of the dishonest manager from Luke 16:1-13, examining how Jesus calls us to strategic faithfulness in public engagement. The sermon addressed the discomfort many Christians feel about political advocacy and public witness, challenging the false choice between spiritual purity and worldly engagement. Through the example of Texas Impact, we learned how...

This week Pastor addressed the challenge of faithful speech in times of tragedy and division, using James 3 to explore how our tongues can either echo God's blessing or contradict Christ's teaching. Drawing from the murders at Charlie Kirk's event and ongoing national tragedies, the sermon emphasized that the same instrument God used to declare love over Jesus and that Jesus used to te...

Isaiah invites all who are thirsty to come and drink freely, a beautiful image of salvation through God’s abundant grace. This passage reminds us that salvation is not something we earn; it is a gift. God’s ways are higher than ours, and God’s invitation to new life is open to all. In Christ, we see the fullness of this grace, as God offers salvation to the world through the life, death, and resur...

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refuse to bow to the golden statue, even when faced with the fiery furnace. Their faithfulness is met with God's presence in the flames. Salvation here is not about avoiding suffering, but about God walking with us through it. God gives us the resilience to stand firm in faith, no matter the trial.

The valley of dry bones is a picture of despair and hopelessness—until God breathes life into what was dead. This passage reminds us that salvation is not just about deliverance, but about renewal. God's Spirit inspires new life where all seemed lost, proving that no situation is beyond God’s power to restore.

Wisdom calls out, offering the path of life. God’s salvation isn’t only about dramatic rescues; it is also about guidance, teaching us to walk in God’s ways. In this passage, wisdom is personified, inviting us to feast on truth and righteousness. Through divine wisdom, God saves us from folly and destruction, leading us into abundant life.

The Exodus story is a powerful testament to God as a deliverer. Oppressed under Pharaoh’s rule, the Israelites cry out, and God intervenes, parting the sea and leading them to freedom. Salvation in this story is not just personal but communal—God's justice overturns oppression, setting captives free. Even today, God calls us to participate in God’s saving work by seeking justice for the oppres...

Abraham’s willingness to trust God in the most difficult moment demonstrates the depth of God’s covenant love. God provides a ram in place of Isaac, foreshadowing how Christ would one day be our ultimate provision. Salvation is not just about rescue; it’s about God’s enduring faithfulness to God’s promises, ensuring that God’s people are never abandoned.

The story of Noah and the flood is one of destruction, but also of renewal. Though sin and corruption filled the earth, God provided a fresh start—a second chance not only for humanity but for all creation. The rainbow is a sign of God’s promise never to destroy again, reminding us that salvation often comes through God’s relentless mercy and the opportunity to begin anew.

In the beginning, God spoke creation into existence, forming light from darkness, order from chaos. This passage reminds us that God’s saving work often begins with creativity—bringing new life where there was none, forming beauty from brokenness. Even now, God is shaping something new in our lives, calling us to participate in the creative work of renewal.

Help & Sending concludes with purpose: the Great Commission and Pentecost reveal not just that Jesus is trustworthy, but that he empowers us to live with purpose.

This episode contains five sermons delivered for the 2025 MoRanch Youth Celebration. Reordered – Micah 6:8 We kick off Youth Celebration by introducing the theme Reordered: Walk Humbly, Love Kindness, Seek Justice. Discover why reversing Micah’s familiar order invites a deeper journey—starting with identity, moving into relationships, and leading toward impact. Joseph’s story begins here, setting...

Wonder establishes the foundation: it’s okay to ask hard questions about Jesus, just like John the Baptist did. This models intellectual honesty and faith for both children and adults.

Jesus’ commandment to love is the definitive sign of Christian life. As resurrection people, we are called to make love visible and tangible through acts of compassion, forgiveness, and welcome, marking our community as Christ’s disciples.

Thisweek we explored Jesus’s promise of unwavering belonging in John 10:22–30,focusing on the imagery of the Good Shepherd who knows, protects, andcarries us through every season of life. We reflected on how the “motherchurch” nurtures us—feeding, shaping, and sending us out—just as our earthlymothers and graduating students experience transitions. Amid noise, cynicism, andlife’s uncertainties, we...

This sermon paints a moving portrait of Darlene as a woman of quiet faith, enduring strength, and deep intentionality. Her decision in 2017 to plan her memorial service—selecting hymns, scriptures, and readings—became a final act of love and witness to those she cherished. The words from Isaiah 40, chosen by Darlene, reveal the source of her enduring hope: a trust in the everlasting God who renews...

On the road to Emmaus, disciples discovered Christ’s presence through conversation, hospitality, and breaking bread. Celebrating our 50th anniversary, we recognize Christ's faithful presence in our past, our present, and our hopeful future as a community.

Just as the women were surprised by the empty tomb, we encounter signs of resurrection in unexpected places. Today we celebrate that God's life-giving power breaks through even death itself, challenging our expectations and filling us with wonder and joy.

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