Flipside Christian Church

Guest speaker David White walks through Matthew 27:31–66, the crucifixion, death, and burial of Jesus. In a series built on “Kingdom Now,” he asks the hard question: where is the kingdom when Jesus is mocked, abandoned, and dying on a cross? The big idea is simple: because of Jesus, we have access now. David unpacks three words from the passage: released, as Jesus willingly gave his life; curtain,...

Pastor Karl walks through Matthew 27:1-31, the last of the six trials Jesus endured before the cross. He covers Judas’s remorse, Pilate’s courtroom, the crowd’s choice of Barabbas, and the soldiers’ mockery. Along the way he explains some of the details that trip people up, including the Jeremiah reference and the differing accounts of Judas’s death. The big idea: Jesus took the punishment we dese...

Pastor Karl closes out Matthew 26 verses 57-75 with two people on trial: Jesus before the religious leaders, and Peter before the crowds. Jesus is tried for who he is, and Peter for his association with Jesus. The big idea is that faithfulness isn’t proven by what we promise, but by how we respond when it becomes costly. Pastor Karl walks through the illegal religious trials of Jesus and the mercy...

On the night before the cross, Jesus sang a hymn with His disciples, then went to Gethsemane. Pastor Karl walks through Matthew 26:30-56 and shows what that night teaches about worship, prayer, and obedience. Worship drives music, not the other way around, and Jesus worshiped before He faced the battle. In Gethsemane we see the weight of the cup He drank for us and the difference between sincerity...

Pastor Karl continues in Matthew 26 with one big idea: communion looks back to Jesus’s sacrifice, forward to his return, and rests on the new covenant sealed in his blood. Looking at the Last Supper, he traces the Passover back to Exodus 12, where the blood of a lamb marked the homes God passed over. He shows how Jesus is the Passover Lamb, whose death was planned from the foundation of the world....

Pastor Karl wraps up Matthew 25 and opens Matthew 26 with one big idea: devotion to Jesus begins in the heart, but it never stays hidden there, because the heart always leaves evidence. In the sheep and goats passage, Jesus isn't announcing how anyone earns salvation. He's revealing hearts that already exist, since a closed heart makes a closed hand and an open heart makes an open hand. From there...

In this episode of Kingdom Now, Pastor Karl walks through Matthew 25:1-30, where Jesus, days before the cross, tells his disciples how to live while they wait for his return. Karl opens with a personal story about the excitement of waiting on a renovation, and how it exposed how little joyful anticipation he had for Christ's return. Building on Jesus' warning in Matthew 24 that no one knows the da...

In this message, Pastor Karl concludes Matthew 24, wrapping up the second half of Flipside Church's 21st birthday series. Set on the Tuesday before the crucifixion, Jesus turns from predicting what's coming to teaching His disciples how to live until He returns — and the focus isn't prediction, it's readiness. Pastor Karl unpacks the big idea: because we don't know when Jesus will return, disciple...

Flipside Church turns 21 — and Pastor Karl marks the milestone by diving into Matthew 24, Jesus's teaching on the end times. Before opening chapter 24, Pastor Karl revisits the close of Matthew 23, where Jesus weeps over Jerusalem's rejection of Him — a rejection Paul later explains (Romans 11) as a partial hardening that will lift once the "fullness of the Gentiles" comes in through the global sp...

In this message from Matthew 23, Pastor Karl walks through one of the most confrontational moments in Jesus's earthly ministry — the day He turns to face the religious establishment head-on and calls out hypocrisy for what it is. The big idea: true discipleship begins with repentance in the heart and produces transformation in life. Pastor Karl unpacks the meaning of the word "hypocrite" — from th...

This week in our verse-by-verse journey through Matthew, Pastor Karl unpacks Matthew 22 — a pivotal chapter set on the Tuesday before Jesus' crucifixion, where four different groups challenge his authority, only to be silenced one by one. Pastor Karl opens with a look at how authority is viewed differently across generations, from the positional authority respected by Baby Boomers to the influence...

Pastor Karl continues the Kingdom Now series with a hard-hitting look at Matthew 21:18–46, where Jesus confronts religion without fruit. The big idea: because Jesus is King, genuine faith must produce the fruit of obedience. Starting with Jesus cursing the barren fig tree — a symbol of Israel's outward religion with no inward fruit — Pastor Karl walks through the chronology of that Passion Week Tu...

 Matthew 21 opens with Jesus's Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem—his coronation as King. Pastor Karl unpacks why this moment was unlike any earthly coronation: a king who arrived not on a warhorse but on a humble donkey, fulfilling prophecies spoken generations earlier through Isaiah, Zechariah, and Daniel. As King, Jesus fulfills God's mission, exercises God's authority, restores proper worship acco...

Pastor Karl continues the Kingdom Now series in Matthew 20, exploring what sets kingdom greatness apart from worldly greatness. As Jesus tells His disciples He is heading to Jerusalem to suffer, be mocked, and be crucified, James and John's mother asks for positions of honor for her sons — missing the point entirely. Jesus responds with a defining truth: true greatness in God's kingdom comes throu...

 In this message, Pastor Karl continues the "Kingdom Now" series with a study through Matthew 20, unpacking Jesus's Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard. Building on Peter's question at the end of Matthew 19 — "What do we get for the sacrifice we've given?" — Pastor Karl explores the difference between gifts and rewards in the Christian life. Salvation is a gift, received by grace through faith,...

In this message, Pastor Karl walks through Matthew 19, where the Pharisees approach Jesus with pointed questions about divorce — testing him against the competing rabbinic schools of Shammai and Hillel. Rather than settling the debate on their terms, Jesus redirects them to God's original design for marriage from Genesis, addressing not just the surface question but the deeper issue underneath it:...

How many times should we forgive someone who has wronged us? In this message, Pastor Karl explores Jesus' powerful teaching in Matthew 18:21–35, revealing that forgiveness is not about keeping score—it's about reflecting the incredible mercy we've received from God. Through the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant, Pastor Karl explains the immeasurable debt of sin that Christ has forgiven and why th...

In this episode of Kingdom Now, Pastor Karl continues the verse-by-verse study through Matthew 18, picking up where Jeff Stemple left off. Building on the disciples' question of "who's the greatest?", Karl unpacks Jesus's answer: none of us are — apart from Him, we're all dependent and called to humble, childlike faith. Walking through verses 7-20, Karl explores how Jesus's kingdom is neither casu...

Who's the greatest? It's a question we ask about quarterbacks, pitchers, and point guards—but Jesus' disciples asked it about the Kingdom of Heaven, and His answer flipped their entire framework upside down. In this message from Matthew 18:1-6, guest speaker Jeff Stemple unpacks what happens when the disciples' quiet argument about status and rank finally bursts into the open, and Jesus responds n...

In Matthew 17, Pastor Karl traces three big ideas through one of the most pivotal chapters in the Gospel of Matthew — from the Transfiguration to a failed exorcism to a coin found in a fish's mouth. Kingdom authority resides only in the King. God must first overpower us before He can empower us — and faith that shifts from dependence on Christ to confidence in our own ability is twisted faith that...

What happens when following Jesus doesn't look like what you signed up for? In this message, guest speaker Jeff Stemple picks up where last week's sermon left off — right at the moment in Matthew 16 where Jesus begins speaking plainly about suffering, rejection, and death, leaving his disciples confused, disappointed, and wrestling with their faith. From there, Jeff walks us into one of the most b...

In this message from Matthew 16, Pastor Karl unpacks what it truly means to be a disciple of Jesus. This chapter marks a turning point in the Gospel of Matthew — Jesus shifts from miracles and crowds to confession and the cross, pressing his followers on three essential questions: What are you allowing to corrupt your faith? Who do you say Jesus is? And are you willing to pay the real cost of foll...

In this message from Matthew 15:29–16:4, Pastor Karl examines two very different groups of people who come to Jesus — and what their approach reveals about how we receive grace. The first group comes from the Decapolis, a Gentile region with no religious standing or covenant claim. They bring broken bodies, unspoken needs, and nothing to offer — and Jesus meets them with compassion, healing, and e...

In Matthew 15, Pastor Karl walks through two encounters that reveal how Jesus responds to very different kinds of people. The first is a confrontation with the Pharisees — religious leaders who had mastered looking clean on the outside while leaving their hearts completely untouched. Jesus exposes their hypocrisy and makes clear that the real issue is never what comes in from the outside, but what...

What do you do when the storms of life hit? Our instinct is to hunker down, strain at the oars, and just try to survive. But what if the storm isn't just an obstacle — what if it's an invitation? Guest speaker Jeff Stemple walks us through one of the most familiar stories in Scripture: Jesus walking on water. And while the story is familiar, the truth buried inside it is anything but comfortable....