Covenant Church

Zack uses to stories of the Apostle Paul, Bartolomé de las Casas, and John Newton to shed light on what the Damascus Road in Acts 9 is and isn't. For supplemental notes and reading suggestions, visit www.covmin.org/sermons

Forgive me for the sins I don't know I'm committing; a man of only questions; the uncontrollable Spirit: Zack contrasts Simon and the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8. For a handout with supplemental notes and reading suggestions, visit www. covmin.org/sermons

Scars in the new Jerusalem; the fourfold sense of Scripture; the importance of prepositions: Zack reads the story of the Church's first martyr. For a handout with supplemental notes and reading suggestions, visit https://www.covmin.org/sermons.

Zack searches Scripture for answers to living with anxiety. For a handout with supplemental notes and reading suggestions, visit https://www.covmin.org/sermons.

Luke’s and Mary’s (and Zack’s) favorite part of the Christmas story: Zack marvels at a God who hates bullying injustice and loves exquisitely. For a handout with supplemental notes and reading suggestions, visit www.covmin.org/sermons.

Seventeenth-century Puritans, saying what God is not, video games: Zack wrestles with what it means that we will be “with” God forever, that we will “see” God, that God will be “all in all.” For a handout with supplemental notes and reading suggestions, visit www.covmin.org/sermons.

Will we work in the new heavens and new earth? Zack explores what it might mean that we will "reign" with Him. For a handout with supplemental notes and reading suggestions, visit https://www.covmin.org/sermons.

Deification, a shining face, asymptotes: Zack marvels at the biblical understanding of God's plan to "renew" us at the deepest level: God wants more for us than we want for ourselves. For a handout with supplemental notes and reading suggestions, visit https://www.covmin.org/sermons.

Millions of undiscovered species; God making a covenant with animals; clouds "going to work": Zack marvels at what "restoration" God might accomplish. For a handout with supplemental notes and reading suggestions, visit https://www.covmin.org/sermons.

Steven (the church's first martyr) and Philip (one of its first evangelists) "waited on tables" so that apostles could spread the word?!? Perhaps that is precisely how they were empowered to live and proclaim God's truth in such powerful ways. Zack argues for the importance of connecting to God in deep ways through our mundane service. For a handout with supplemental notes and reading suggestions,...

What do you do when you are disturbed by a story like that of Ananias and Sapphira? Taste and see that the Lord is good. For a handout with supplemental notes and reading suggestions, visit https://www.covmin.org/sermons.

Pastor Zack situates this most difficult of passages within the broader witness of Scripture to try to understand what it does (and doesn’t) mean—and the claim that it makes on the lives of Jesus’ followers. For a handout with supplemental notes and reading suggestions, visit https://www.covmin.org/sermons.

Leaving the law firm; speaking at a father's funeral; an ancient Greek rhetorical device: Pastor Zack examines Acts 4:1-31 and makes three points: actions speak louder than words; we must leave outcomes to God; Jesus is the center of our prayer and our life. For a handout with supplemental notes and reading suggestions, visit https://www.covmin.org/sermons.

The one person who made it to heaven; the medicine of immortality; giving what is most important: Zack discusses the four marks of the church.

A "word on target"; leveling and destruction; elephants and riders: Zack asks, "What is the gospel?"

(Not) reversing Babel; three days learning Japanese; cheerios and graham crackers: Zack explores the significance of the fact that there are multiple languages in the Kingdom of God.

Is the Christian faith fundamentally about our experience? Does the faith offer happiness or truth? How can Christians today be a witness to an event they did not see? Zack talks about the implications of witness in Acts 1.

Stop seeking the timeline; stop asking the wrong questions; stop gazing at heaven: Zack examines the three ways that the Holy Spirit corrects the first disciples -- and us. For the handout, visit http://www.covmin.org/sermons/

Why we should allow the “other criminal” his anonymity; hoping for an empty hell; ask and you shall receive—more than you ask for. Zack draws out the implications of Jesus’ response to the “other criminal” at the crucifixion. For the handout, visit http://www.covmin.org/sermons/

Weeping in the British Library; long-lost autographs; did Jesus talk about handling snakes?: Pastor Zack teaches us how to let the Bible’s messiness deepen our worship. For the handout, visit http://www.covmin.org/sermons/

How to surf; a sample size larger than n = 1; Acts 29: Zack argues that Scripture is remembrance—and that we should follows its lead. For the handout, visit http://www.covmin.org/sermons/

Holiness is a shining face: Zack explains why. For the handout, visit http://www.covmin.org/sermons/

A heart monitor in high school; “a contingent, unliquidated debt”; a horrible at-home habit: Zack explains sin in terms of common biblical idioms and argues why it is important to do so. For the handout, visit http://www.covmin.org/sermons/

Fear from a secondhand sermon; the gift of an extra hour each day; listening to Christian music?: Zack discusses our part in sanctification. For the handout, visit http://www.covmin.org/sermons/

Should we pray together in church? The fuel for our spirits; a heart “strangely warmed”: Zack argues that God “in secret” is central to our lives. For the handout, visit http://www.covmin.org/sermons/