Ekklesia Churches Sermons

Preached to Ekklesia Churches on Sunday October 25, 2026. God’s grace saves us through Jesus, and continues to change us. Through Jacob’s family’s failures, return to worship, and suffering, we are called to repentance, renewed obedience, and hope in Christ. While We Were Sinners: God’s grace offers salvation to undeserving people through Jesus. Arise and Worship: God calls us to leave sin behind...

Preached to Ekklesia Churches on Sunday October 18, 2026. Jacob’s encounter with God exposes his struggle for control and reveals the blessing of belonging to God. His story points us to Jesus, whose death, resurrection, and ongoing intercession give us hope beyond our own efforts. Knowing and Believing: Trusting God’s promises when circumstances provoke fear. Praying and Walking: Living out the f...

Preached to Ekklesia Churches on Sunday 10/11/26. Through Jacob’s encounters with God, his troubled family relationships, and his deliverance from Laban, Genesis reveals God’s goodness, our brokenness, and God’s salvation. This sermon calls us to trust God’s revelation in Scripture and find our salvation in Jesus. How Good Is Our God: God reaches down to us, keeps his promises, and reveals who he...

Preached to Ekklesia Churches on Sunday October 4, 2026. Isaac’s family pursues pleasure, power, and control, yet God remains faithful and accomplishes his plan through their failures. This message calls us to seek first God’s kingdom and find our greatest blessing in knowing and serving Jesus. Our desires shape how we love and what we consider a blessing. We can be shaped by past failures or chan...

Preached to Ekklesia Churches on Sunday, September 27, 2026. Genesis 24 shows Abraham, his servant, and Rebekah acting on what they know of God while trusting him with what they cannot see. This sermon explores how to seek God’s wisdom in our plans and prayers while trusting his providence for the future. Abraham makes plans shaped by what God has revealed and leaves the outcome in God’s hands. Th...

Given to Ekklesia Churches on Sunday, September 20, 2026. Abraham’s purchase of a burial place for Sarah reveals a life shaped by confidence in God’s future promise. As followers of Jesus, we are also called to live as sojourners, walking through loss with hope, treasuring the things of God’s kingdom, and leaving a legacy that points others toward Christ. The Hope We Hold: Because our hope is in J...

Preached to Ekklesia Churches on Sunday September 13, 2026. Genesis 22 reveals that Abraham’s obedience flowed from faith in the God who provides. The passage ultimately points to Jesus, the Lamb of God whose sacrifice and resurrection provide salvation and give believers confidence to walk in sacrificial obedience. Teaching Points Walking by Faith: Abraham trusted God and continued taking one obe...

Given to Ekklesia Churches on Sunday, September 6, 2026. Genesis 21 shows how God remained faithful to Abraham and Sarah while helping them face the consequences of their past. Because Jesus saves by grace and continues shaping his people, we can trust him for peace in the present and hope for the future. Teaching Points: Peace in the present comes from confidence in the God who keeps his promises...

Delivered to Ekklesia Churches on Sunday, August 30, 2026. Abraham’s return to an old sin reveals how easily fear can lead us away from faith and back toward self-dependence. Genesis 20 reminds us that we are completely dependent on God to save us, change us, and use us for his glory. God faithfully saves despite human unfaithfulness. God exposes our fear, dishonesty, and excuses so that we can re...

Preached to Ekklesia Churches on Sunday, August 23, 2026. Genesis 19 shows how Lot’s divided allegiance compromised his witness, affected his family, and left him reluctant to obey even as God mercifully rescued him. His story warns against a divided heart while pointing to the grace and redemption found in Jesus. Teaching Points: Divided allegiance compromises our witness and makes faithful Chris...

Preached to Ekklesia Churches on Sunday, August 16th, 2026. In Genesis 18, we see the importance of coming to God with humility, honesty, and faith, but ultimately, we can only draw near because God first came to us and made a way through Jesus. Approaching with Humility - Abraham joyfully serves strangers, showing the posture of someone who understands that what he has is a gift from God. Approac...

In this sermon delivered on Sunday, August 9th, 2026, we read Genesis 17 to see how the true people of God are identified by their faith and wholehearted devotion to Jesus. God's command to "be blameless" is an invitation to faith and wholehearted allegiance, not a demand for unattainable perfection in our own strength. The eternal promises made to Abraham regarding a multitude of nations and an e...

Preached in August 2026, this message walks through Genesis 16 to challenge our tendency to rely on cultural shortcuts when waiting on God, calling us instead to trust the timing and provision of the God who sees our struggles. The temptation to adopt cultural norms and human solutions over biblical truth when God's promises seem delayed. How God meets the marginalized and afflicted right where th...

In this sermon we get to walk through Genesis 15, and examine how God deals with Abram's questions, and doubts, and fears about the future fulfillment of His promises! Through His responses we learn that because God is perfectly faithful, His promises are perfectly trustworthy. Other Insights: - The promises of God are greater than (and able to handle) our questions - The promises of God are great...

This message explores how biblical faith is an ongoing condition of trusting God through poverty, abundance, and conflict, and was delivered to Ekklesia Churches on Sunday, July 19, 2026.   Putting your faith in Jesus is not just a one-time decision, but an ongoing condition of trusting Him in every circumstance.   In seasons of scarcity and anxiety, we must avoid leaning on our own understanding...

In this sermon delivered on July 12, 2026, Taylor explores Jesus' unexpected encounter with the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well, demonstrating that God sovereignly decides when and where He reveals Himself to weary, broken outcasts seeking living water. An Unexpected Encounter: How Jesus bypasses cultural and religious barriers to deliberately meet a marginalized woman at high noon. The Gift of Li...

Delivered on July 5, 2026, this sermon explores what it means to be blessed by looking at the unearned grace given to Abram and his active, faith-filled response of obedience and bold worship. The Nature of Blessing: Discover how God's blessing is rooted entirely in His unearned grace and favor, ultimately fulfilled in belonging to Jesus Christ, rather than the self-serving definitions of wealth o...

In this message preached on Sunday, June 28, 2026, we examine how human pride continuously seeks to build its own self-centered kingdoms, contrasted against a sovereign God who opposes the proud but graciously builds His eternal kingdom through the humble.   To learn more about what we believe or to contact a pastor, visit us at ekklesiachurches.org.

have received your confirmation that the manuscript is finalized as-is, and I acknowledge that the message is now set. PDF   Here are your formatted podcast assets based solely on your finalized text: PDF   1. Podcast Title Genesis 6–9 — The God of Salvation PDF   2. Standard Podcast Description In this sermon preached on June 21, 2026, we look at the account of the global flood in Genesis 6–9 to...

In this sermon, we explore Genesis 4:17–5:32 to contrast the family lines of Cain and Seth, revealing how the kingdoms of men fade while the Kingdom of Heaven leaves an eternal legacy. A Legacy of Decay: Looking at Cain's genealogy (Genesis 4:17–24), we see how rapid technological and cultural advancement quickly descends into moral chaos, pride, and depravity when humanity tries to establish itse...

In this sermon on Genesis 4:1-16 preached on June 7, 2026, we see how sin corrupts our hearts and drives us to reject God's correction. Cain's example exposes how pride warps our relationship with God into a transactional contract, how our unchecked anger against our Creator inevitably leaks out onto His nearest image-bearers, and how true restoration is found only when we humbly repent and submit...

In this message, we look at the perfect perspective of God on the origins of human sin, the deception that leads us astray, and the enduring grace that promises ultimate rescue. Preached by Dan on May 31st, 2026. The Anatomy of Deception: Discover how temptation begins by turning God's protective boundaries into restrictive barriers and doubting His goodness . The Cost of the Fall: Understand the...

Moving out of the cosmic overview of the opening chapters, Moses brings us up close and personal with the personal, covenant-keeping God who breaths life into a man made from the dust, gives him good work, and gives him good companionship. Identity in Our Being (vv. 5–9): What it means to be formed from humble dust but filled with divine breath. Identity in Our Work (vv. 10–17): Why labor is a pre...

Originally preached to Ekklesia Churches by Dan on 05/17/26. Teaching Highlights The sun and moon are functional for keeping time and seasons, but their deeper purpose is to dynamically declare the glory of our infinitely creative God. Every single human being possesses inherent dignity and value from the moment of conception, because our worth is fundamentally rooted in our God-given identity as...

Originally preached to Ekklesia Churches by Dan on 05/10/26. Teaching Highlights • God is the solo architect who transforms chaos into a perfectly ordered home for His glory and our good. • The creation "days" are presented as narrative history, inviting us to see God’s work days as the foundation of creation. • God's boundaries are an act of love; just as He restrained the chaotic waters to creat...