Covenant Podcast

When we have the Holy Spirit, we are enabled to submit to one another in marriage and eschew self-centeredness as the cancer to healthy marriage that it is.

There are good reasons for getting married, but one core reason that is often overlooked in today’s society is companionship. We are meant to marry our best friend. 

Marriage is not well understood in our culture or in our churches today. God has a design and a desire for marriage, it is something the God has created and it is something that God defines. If we don’t understand the design, or don’t recognize that God created and regulates marriage, we will end up struggling in our marriages or missing out completely. 

When a nation or a people forsake the Lord, collapse is inevitable. We are in need of a King whose reign will never fail: we have one, His name is Jesus. 

J udges 17–18 shows how sincere worship can still be false when it’s shaped by our preferences instead of God’s truth. Micah creates a version of worship that looks spiritual but is ultimately self-made, turning his relationship with God into something transactional and controllable. In the end, what he built fails him, revealing that anything we elevate above God will eventually collapse and leav...

God raised Samson with a clear calling and incredible strength, yet his story shows how a person can be outwardly gifted but inwardly drifting from God. Instead of following the Lord’s direction, Samson repeatedly pursued what was right in his own eyes, allowing small compromises to pull him further from obedience. His life warns us that spiritual strength doesn’t come from our abilities, but from...

Judges 10-11 explores Israel's repeated cycle of idolatry — abandoning God to serve false gods like Molech and Chemosh — and God's response of tough love followed by compassion when they genuinely repented. The core message is that idolatry means seeking from other things what only God can provide, and true repentance requires destroying those idols, not just setting them aside. The story...

Judges 9 marks a dark turning point in Israel’s history as the familiar cycle of sin, repentance, and deliverance collapses. Abimelech, Gideon’s illegitimate son, seizes power through manipulation and violence, and when faithful leadership steps aside, Israel crowns a bramble instead. The result is destruction for both the king and the people who chose him, revealing how tolerated sin grows heavie...

In this message, we follow Gideon’s story to see how starting well and finishing well aren’t the same—especially after success. Gideon trusted God in weakness, but after victory he began relying on himself, chasing recognition, and building a “replacement” for dependence on the Lord. This is a warning about the spiritual danger of success and an invitation to return to prayer, accountability, and...

Judges 6–7 shows Israel caught in a cycle of spiritual decline, hardship, and crying out to God. The message highlights how faith can fade across generations, and how God uses unlikely people like Gideon to bring deliverance. Even when God’s plans seem confusing or impossible, He confirms His calling and proves His power. The takeaway: trust God—He is faithful, big enough, and His plans are always...

God alone deserves the praise that results from a life of faith in practice.. We should live with a mindset of obedience and faith, recognizing that we’re not alone as we follow. God goes before, God works His will, and we give Him praise. 

God is not as predictable as we often seem to make Him out to be. He is sovereign over all; and that includes sin, evil, and suffering. God will stop at nothing to redeem His people, and works in mysterious ways to accomplish that goal. He is always seeking our trust, and will work in the necessary ways to foster our dependance on Him. 

Judges 2 show God’s people slowly drift from Him through partial obedience, forgetting He is Lord across generations, yet are relentlessly pursued by a faithful, rescuing God.  

As Christians, we have been saved and given an inheritance that we will experience more and more as we’re sanctified by the Holy Spirit, grown to emulate Christ, and work to mature in their faith. 

This sermon will be laying out the series, bringing in past context, talking about the purpose behind Judges and examining the reality of what happened to the people of Israel when they made it into “the promised land”.

If we are willing to follow basic obedience to Christ by pursuing financial, relational, and spiritual peace, we can have more overall peace in our lives and more effectively point others to Him in our efforts to seek and save the lost.

The peace of God starts in an individual as they receive Jesus Christ as their Lord. But, the peace of God is meant to spread from the individual to a broken world.

Sometimes, the greatest battles we face are the battles within our minds. Jesus, through His finished work of the cross, offers peace there too. Instead of waiting for that peace to come, there are practical steps we can take to cultivate the peace our minds crave.

God created a world at peace, but we broke that peace between us and God through sin. Jesus wants to restore peace and keep our wandering hearts at peace, but we have to set our minds on Him.

Fasting with prayer has been a Christian practice since Jesus came. People fasted and prayed in the OT. Jesus fasted and prayed. The apostles and early church fasted and prayed and God expected that we would fast and pray. Fasting helps to subdue our flesh so that we are more alive in the spirit. Fasting helps to prepare us for deeper and more powerful prayer. Fasting helps us to break the bonds o...

If we aren’t receiving answers to our prayers, there are things that we can look toward that the Bible says may be hindering us getting an answer. Perhaps we are praying wrongly by not asking, asking with wrong motives or asking for things outside of God’s will. Perhaps we have been ignoring God’s word and neglecting the poor, disobeying Him, or dishonoring our spouse. Maybe there is sin in our li...

As this epistle to the Philippians concludes, Paul reflects on a great partnership and reminds us of God’s economy and an eternal perspective on giving. 

We have the ability as believers to strengthen the faith of others through our love of Christ. Although others strengthen our faith, it is Christ alone that brings true contentment.  No matter what life throws at us, we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. 

What you think about matters. If you’re constantly thinking about your mistakes, your failings, and the shame from your past you’ll stay stuck in the past. If you’re constantly thinking about your fears and anxieties for the future, you will stay stuck in the present. If you allow your mind to dwell on sinful things and go down corrupted paths, you will be miserable. 

Paul is pleading with two co-laborers in the gospel to settle their differences and live at peace. He gives some wisdom on how we can live at peace instead of anxious and worried lives.