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Luke 10:1-10 (NIV). You are very important to God. Let that sink into your heart this morning. You are very important to God and that’s what this story tells us this morning. Zacchaeus was a lonely, very short little fellow, but he wanted to see Jesus. And then he was in for the surprise of his life, for as the Lord passed by, the Lord stopped, and he said, “Zacchaeus…come down immediately. I must...

Luke 19: 41-44 (NRSV). Luke’s account of the gospel is the only one in which Jesus sees the city and weeps. If tears and weeping are Jesus’ entry into Holy Week, maybe tears and weeping should be our entry into Holy Week. Pastor Wallace challenges us in this text to understand that although the city is Jerusalem, but it’s not about only a particular city. It’s more about a condition. It’ about our...

Philippians 3:10 (NIV). Easter is about the power of the resurrection. Today’s text focuses on this one verse and challenge you to “live in the power of His resurrection. Do you want to feel the power of the resurrected life? The resurrection of Jesus doesn’t automatically erase all the problems of this world; but it gives us true life in the midst of all that is around. If you have been blessed f...

Luke 4:1-13 (NRSV). The biblical account of the temptation of Jesus as described in Luke’s Gospel should put us in the right mind to approach Lent as a time for reflection, penance and prayer in preparation for Easter. Jesus begins His ministry in the wilderness. Lent is a wilderness time for us. Jesus was “full of the Holy Spirit and we all should want to be “full of the Holy Spirit.” If you are...

Luke 5:1-11 (NRSV). The lesson from today’s text is a story of Jesus calling four fishermen to be fishers of people. The purpose of this miracle was not to meet a human-need. It was a teaching miracle. We will see five aspects of Christ’s divine nature and glory manifested: 1) disciples love to hear the word of God taught; 2) disciples obey Jesus even when it doesn’t make sense; 3) disciples are a...

Luke 13:1-9 (NIV). Karl Barth, the renowned Swiss Reformed Theologian, famously said “take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.” This is so, because faith isn’t something we live in isolation. It’s not separate from real life. The gospel speaks into our world – into war and injustice, into the everyday struggles of ordinary people. Out today’...

Philippians 1:9-11 (NRSV) teaches us three ways to pray for God’s best. First, pray that love may abound. Second, pray that excellence may prevail. Third, pray that fruit may grow. It is Pastor Wallace’s prayer that the Holy Spirit will bring to bear on your heart whatever conviction you need to feel about how you pray both for yourself and for others! The result of such prayers is changed lives r...

1 Corinthians 3: 6-9 (KJV). In our text, we will see the apostle Paul’s efforts to correct the Corinthian church’s view of their leaders with a proper estimation of the value and role of human leaders in light of God’s rank in all of these. In other words, God is given the rank of pr-eminent one. God is everything. He is the highest. He’s the greatest. And if that is true, if God is pre-eminent in...

2 Chronicles 16:7-8 (NRSV) outlines the danger of relying on human strength rather than God, using King Asa’s mistake to highlight a divine promise: God actively searches the earth to strongly support those with a heart fully committed to Him. True spiritual success requires total dependence on God, not worldly alliances. May we choose this day to increase our commitment to God by: 1) desiring to...

We’re off and running into the new year, 2026! In preparation for this New Year, Pastor Wallace is starting a new sermon series: “Experiencing the God of Increase.” Today’s message is “His Blessings Brings Increase.” A true, biblical understanding of increase will not lead to a selfish agenda that’s all about you. It puts the focus where it needs to be, on God and His power and kingdom. In 2026, e...

In today’s gospel reading, it is Jesus’ apostles who are asking for more faith. Even they sometimes struggled with believing and trusting in God and in their leader, Jesus. No wonder they cry out, “Increase our faith.” Living as a disciple of Jesus seems impossibly challenging for them then and for us today. I think most of us have struggled with faith as some point in our lives. Thus, in today’s...

Matthew, in his gospel narrative of the birth of Christ, picked up what Isaiah had prophesied, and used it in application to the Lord Jesus. Listen to his words: “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which is translated, “God with us” (Matthew 1:23). God is not distant. He is here, with us. He is not unapproachable, unreachable. He became o...

Messy families are nothing new, and families have been messy since the beginnings of time – it’s “All in the Family.” The skeletons in Jesus’ family closet points to the instabilities of Israel’s history, the long story of a very dysfunctional family. And that is good news for everyone who comes from a less than perfect family, anyone who has a few skeletons in the family. In today’s message, Past...

2 Samuel 7:18-22 (NRSV), Sunday, November 23, 2025. David’s Prayer of Thanksgiving is a classic Old Testament passage in that it is daunting in scope yet intensely relatable. Despite benefiting firsthand from God’s love, David has difficulty concealing his amazement at his Lord’s awesome power. Through Jesus Christ, God’s limitless love is extended to each and every one of us and therein lies the...

– John 1:9-14 NRSV: Sunday, November 30, 2025. What does Christmas mean to you? There are many ways to understand what Christmas is about; but the true meaning can be found in John 1:9. Jesus is the true light that came shining into the darkness.   Support the show

John 4:46-54 (NRSV). Sunday, November 9, 2025. In today’s message, we have here a nobleman who is dealing with a problem that he can’t solve. Trouble and hard times can hit regardless of your status and your checkbook. His problems caused him to look to Jesus. The same holds true today. Unless you start looking to Jesus, you will never get the true answer to your problem. Jesus is still the answer...

James 4:1-3 NIV. If there was ever a time we needed prayer, our nation and our world needed prayer, it is NOW! In this message, Pastor Wallace troubleshoots our prayer life. Prayer is a wartime walkie-talkie, and we must use it as such if it is not to malfunction.  Support the show

Trust and Obey,” October 12, 2025 – Acts 5:27-32 (NIV). How many truly joyful, vibrant, and victorious Christians do you know? There are not a lot of people who are filled with joy. What is the reason for this lack of joy? The reason for this lack of joy is because they are unbelieving and disobedient Christians. Today’s message will discuss obedience, the missing ingredient in many Christians’ li...

“David and Goliath: Lessons from Battling Giants.” November 2, 2025 – 1 Samuel 17:26; 41-47 (NRSV). We are all recovering from something – life changing experiences, failures, or past disappointments. Most of the experiences we are recovering from we didn’t choose. None of us chose to go through these trails in our lives but we all had to deal with them. We are all in a fight or should be in a fig...

Today, we continue our sermon series in the Book of James with Part II – “Asking God for Wisdom.” After James talks to us about the trials, the temptations, the falsities of life, then he talks to us about wisdom: what it is and how to get it and how to ask for wisdom in prayer. Pastor Wallace wants you to know that it is God’s will for you to become a mature Christian that is wanting no good thin...

The reception of God’s Word is an absolute necessity for Christian growth. In other words, you will never be a growing Chrisitan without a knowledge of the Word of God. In today’s message, Pastor Wallace teaches from James 1:21 about how to receive the implanted Word of God with meekness. Thus, we are to “open ourselves up to ‘this word,” maintain a continual openness toward it, so that its’ power...

As your pastor, I want you to be the kind of person who reads the Word of God, understands it, applies it, and reap the rewards of doing it. I want you to be blessed in your life. I want you to experience God’s blessings that come from obedience in your home, in your marriage, in your finances, at work, at school and where life takes you. What God wants is that when He looks at us, we look like th...

It’s been my pleasure these past few weeks to bring you the Word of God as expressed through the Book of James. Today’s message is Part V: “Faith and Deeds: Working Together Works.” James is simply reminding us that you really do not believe something until it shapes and forms what you do and how you live. Our passage begins by asking two pointed- questions: “What good is it, my brothers, if a man...

Glorifying God in Worship As Christians, we need to be absolutely sure why we go to church. In today’s message, Pastor Wallace teaches us that true believers go to church because they desire to do so, and out of this desire, they obey God’s commands. They do not obey God’s commands and then are furnished with the desire. No, their desire, flowing out of a changed heart, pushes them to crave covena...

Today, we begin a new sermon series on the subject: “Life Lessons from James, Part I – “Passing the Tests in Life.” We know that trials, even the most profound ones are a gift from God. But in this message, Pastor Wallace teaches us that spiritual maturity is not attained by merely experiencing trials – it is attained by embracing them. Putting faith too work in your life has more to do with how y...