Christ Pres - Sermons

Scripture Reference: Joshua 21:43-45 Anticipating the unknowns of 2026 can be exciting and anxiety inducing. We can be confident that the same God who promised and delivered the land to His people has made promises to us and He is faithful to keep them. Sermon Points: God Makes Promises God’s Promises Seem Dim God Is Faithful to His Promises

Scripture Reference: Isaiah 55:1-13 Sermon Points: Mercy Invites Us to a Feast Mercy Invites Us to Focus Mercy Invites Us to a Future

Scripture Reference: Titus 3:3-8 Paul ends his letter to his co-worker Titus by appealing to the appearing of “our Savior.” In a world that is full of quarreling, envy and hatred, the goodness of God appeared as a baby in order to bring about salvation and transform His people into those that do good works.

Scripture Reference: Ephesians 6:10-24 Paul ends his letter by reminding his audience that they are in a fight. But it’s a fight not against not flesh and blood, but against spiritual forces of evil. Paul has already reminded the Ephesians that Christ is seated in the heavenly places above all rule and authority and power and dominion (1:20-21), and now Paul shows us how the work of Christ e...

Scripture Reference: Ephesians 6:5-9 The Ancient Greeks told the story of Pandora’s Box and how “hard labor” escaped when she opened it. Mankind has always struggled with a negative view of work. No surprise that Paul takes up this topic in Ephesians 5 and gives some of life changing insight into how Christians are to view their jobs. Sermon Points: The Context of Paul’s Teaching...

Scripture Reference: Ephesians 6:1-4 You can’t sequester your beliefs when you enter the public sphere to make decisions as a Christian. But we need to start “local” by looking into what the Gospel says about our most fundamental relationships, that between parents and children. Paul has wisdom to spare in these (oddly) short verses. Sermon Points: The Simplicity of the Commands...

Scripture Reference: Ephesians 5:22-33 Christians have lived through their fair share of mania regarding cultural discussions around the topic of gender roles. But have we always lived up to Paul’s ideal he sets forth in Ephesians 5? Probably not. When we see God’s complementary design for men and women, our marriages can flourish again. Sermon Points: The Role of the Church: Wives The...

Scripture Reference: Ephesians 5:22-33 Marriage can be so hard. Paul turns to the topic of marriage as the culmination of a letter dedicated to the idea that God was repairing the world by uniting all things in Christ. Our marriages are intended to be pictures of that union. When we use marriage for what it was intended, we experience flourishing. Sermon Points: Marriage is a picture of God’s Gran...

Scripture Reference: Ephesians 5:1-20 Paul continues to focus on the new life the Lord brings by the Spirit dwelling in His people. The new life is marked by love, which practically changes our relationship with money, sex, and alcohol. The Scriptures press in on these issues, not to shame us, but to bring them to light for healing and transformation. Sermon Points: Walking Opposed to Love in Dark...

Scripture Reference: Matthew 12:1-8 Sermon Points: The Details of the Conflict The Heart of the Conflict The Application of the Conflict

Scripture Reference: Ephesians 4:17-32 How does change happen in the Christian Life? Paul in Ephesians 4 says it involves a putting off and a putting on. But what’s so encouraging is that the life you are putting on actually is the life that fits the person who is united to Christ. It’s a life of truth, kindness, generosity, and forgiveness. Sermon Points: The Old Self (vv.17-22) The N...

Scripture Reference: Ephesians 4:1-16 You don’t have to be a philosophy major to understand how complicated the problem of the “one and the many” is for even daily life. But Paul launches straight into the topic of Christian unity in Ephesians 4, making it a top priority for God’s people to work towards if we hope to be a maturing church. Sermon Points: Understand Unity Emb...

Scripture Reference: Psalm 46:1-11 When life gets turned upside down, we have a God who is a mighty refuge. In the midst of crisis we can rely on a strong God because He became weak and a present God because He was forsaken. Sermon Points: A Perilous World A Powerful God A Present God

Scripture Reference: Ephesians 3:14-21 What do you think the Apostle Paul would pray if you could hear him offer a prayer for you? The end of Ephesians 3 is just that. What he gives us, therefore, is the idealized version of how every Christian should live their lives, especially as it pertains to how love transforms our “inner world.” Sermon Points: Have Strength Know Love Be FullBowi...

Scripture Reference: Ephesians 3:1-13 Add the wonder of Paul’s description of the church in God’s eternal plan together with the immensity of the blessings afforded to those “in Christ,” and Paul realizes that he has something that people need to know. The first half of Ephesians 3 is highly instructive of an evangelism that isn’t packaged but full of joy. Sermon Poin...

Scripture Reference: Ephesians 2:11-22 Sermon Points: Hostility Remembered (vv. 11-12, 14) Hostility Killed (vv. 13-16) Hostility Transformed (vv. 17-22)

Scripture Reference: Ephesians 2:1-10 Having set out that heaven and earth will be reunited through God’s work through the church, Paul turns to how the world will be healed in YOU, a Christian. Turns out, he has to animate the “bad news” of the Gospel before we can really understand the “good news” of his grace, to be in union with Christ! Sermon Points: Man is Dead...

Scripture Reference: Ephesians 1:15-23 As the apostle Paul writes his letter to the Ephesian church, he is overwhelmed with gratitude and tells them how he is praying for them. In Paul’s prayer we see the unlocking of a mystery. What is most needed in all of our lives is NOT necessarily a chance in circumstances. No, what is most needed is to have the eyes of our heart enlightened so that we...

Scripture Reference: Ephesians 1:4,5,11 Watch lovers speak to each other and invariably the talk turns to other-worldly themes. We instinctively know that we were made to be loved outside of time. Paul is excited to say that a huge blessing of being “in Christ” is the knowledge that it was true before we were ever born. Sermon Points: The Doctrine The Objections The Blessings

Scripture Reference: Ephesians 1:3-14 The more overwhelming the site you’re describing, the more words you’ll throw at it to try to sum it up to those who’ll listen. Paul sits down to contemplate the blessings God’s people have in Christ and what follows is a litany of keywords about the Christian’s spiritual status in one long run-on sentence of pure joy. Sermon Poin...

Scripture Reference: Ephesians 1:1-3 Keywords give us the ability to be “found” online if we know what we’re searching for. In a Christian’s quest to build the church, Paul provides a host of power-packed terminology to guide his favorite church plant in Ephesus towards becoming complete in Christ by being united to his church and looking for blessing. Sermon Points: The Ut...

Scripture Reference: 2 Timothy 3:10-17 We live in a day where even having a talk about “truth” is incredibly confusing. We have attempted to build a society on the shifting ground of our feelings. But a community that lives by the revealed truth of God’s word simply functions differently. What would it look like to be a “people of the book?” Sermon Points: The Bible s...

Scripture Reference: Luke 7:18-35 When Jesus shows up in a life, he overturns all the personal identity markers that used to define his people. This means that you can find yourself in really strange places when you’re following him. How that can be is seen this Sunday in a little scene from the life of John the Baptist. Sermon Points: Surprised by Jesus Founded on Grace

Scripture Reference: James 5:13-16 If we are going to be a church that is a home, that entails being in transparent, intimate relationships with both Jesus and each other. These kind of life-giving relationships require admitting the truth about our messy selves, but a promise of healing and restoration is on the other side. Sermon Points: Connected to Jesus Connected to Jesus’ Body (The Chu...

Scripture Reference: Hebrews 13:2 God’s people have always had a special relationship with the outsider and the stranger. God says when you serve them, you’re actually serving me. Why is this the case? And how can we find ways to serve and love our communities without having to power through guilt as the only motivation to do so? Sermon Points: The Meaning of Hospitality The Practice o...