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The power of the Apostle Paul’s rhetoric and logic is on clear display in the second half of Romans 3. After definitively proving that all humanity is unrighteous, under sin, and subject to God’s wrath, he turns the tables and announces the good news: righteousness can only come through faith in Jesus Christ! With this set of verses, he concludes his long and devastating indictment of Jews and Gen...

After showing the Gentiles their need for God's righteousness, Paul turns to his fellow Jews. Because the Jews were boasting in their outward conformity to God's will, Paul reminds them of their failure to obey the law and corrects their misunderstanding about circumcision. Paul wants the Jews to recognize they need God's righteousness just like the Gentiles. Although Paul's critiques target first...

Paul’s great thesis in this letter is found in Romans 1:16-17. He confidently declares that the gospel is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes. For in the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed and by that same gospel, the righteous shall live by faith. But who are the righteous? Last week, we saw how all of us are guilty of the various sins against which God’s wrath is be...

On June 26, 2003, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that criminalized same-sex intimacy. That decision set the stage for another decision 12 years later that legalized gay marriage. These legal decisions merely codified what a majority of Americans still today accept and celebrate. But at the end of Romans 1, Paul uses same sex intimacy as an example of the whole hearted rebellion against...

This week, we begin a new sermon series in Paul’s epistle to the Romans. He’s writing to a church he’s never visited but his letter will become one of the most important books in the New Testament, helping us understand early Christian doctrine, conflict between Jews and Gentiles, and the life that God calls us to lead as his disciples. We’ll begin with a discussion of Paul’s understanding of the...

In the church calendar the first Sunday after Pentecost is Trinity Sunday, a day set aside to remember and reflect upon the nature and character of God. This Sunday we will explore the privilege of knowing God as a tri-une being, and discuss three implications of God's nature for his followers today.

Message from Rev. Titus Bagby on May 24, 2026

As we conclude our celebration of Easter, we turn our attention to the ascension of Christ to the Father’s right hand in glory. Our text this Sundays tells us that Jesus, as the victorious King who is enthroned in power and majesty, gives gifts to his church. What are the gifts? The better question is, who are the gifts and why does our King give them to us? When we grasp that, we’ll better unders...

When we confess our belief using the Apostles’ Creed, we say we believe in the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. Is that reality purely future? Or is it closer than we think? This Sunday, we’ll hear from the Apostle Paul about resurrection in the present tense from 1 Corinthians 15: what does it look like for us to live “in Christ,” the one who was dead but now is alive and at wor...

Every soldier or statesman knows that after a hard fought victory, the real work begins. Whether you are rebuilding a nation after war or forming a more perfect union, the battle gives way to construction. What is God constructing after his victorious battle against sin and death? What does the new creation look like? The first step in any rebuilding process is to lay a cornerstone. Join us this S...