Gospel Life Sermons

If there was a Gospel Truth found in today’s passage it would be redemption. Redemption is not found in us or anything in this world. Redemption is only found in Jesus! The enemy doesn’t want you redeemed. He doesn’t want you to be reconciled with God or His people. The enemy wants you distanced and destroyed. Jesus predicts Peter’s failure, Jesus experiences Peter’s failure, then Jesus redeems Pe...

In John 18, the story of the cross begins to unfold, and Jesus will be captured, beaten, imprisoned, and murdered. However, just when it look like things are spiraling out of control, John wants us to know that Jesus is in control of each and every part of it. Jesus is choosing this path because He knows that this is the path that will rescue us, and if Jesus was in control of this story, I can al...

There seems to be many things in our society that are causing division within the church. Jesus prayed for us the night before He went to the cross and asked the Father to make us one, as they are One. Jesus then bled and died to purchase our unity with Him and our unity with one another. We are called to display His glory by being united in Him. It is where we will find our joy and it is our witn...

In part two of Jesus’ prayer in John 17, we learn that Jesus is asking the Father to preserve our unity and our faith with His joy, His protection from the enemy, and His Word. Two thousand years after this prayer, the Christian continues to have great hope when trials come because we know that Jesus has already given us everything we need to stand firm and to stand together for His glory!

As we arrive at John 17, Jesus shifts from a posture of teaching to a posture of prayer, inviting us into an intimate conversation that He has with His Father mere hours before the cross. And while His prayer includes many things for us, John 17:1-15 shows that it is not about us. Instead, His prayer is all about glory and we learn that the glory of Jesus causes everything else to fade into the ba...

Like the disciples, we easily misunderstand Jesus when our belief is shallow. When we assume the “good news” is about our immediate problems and our vision of the good life, we are going to be disappointed, confused. However, a robust faith is led by the Spirit to see what God has done in Christ—the world is overcome and we have direct access to the Father—only then do we have peace and confidence...

We might be tempted to think that joy is found in the absence of sorrow, but Jesus tells us that true joy is found in His presence! Which means that we can have true joy, even while passing through some of life’s most sorrowful circumstances. As believers in Jesus, we have His Spirit alive in us and that is our guarantee of an eternity in His presence, where we will have infinite and indestructibl...

When Jesus is just hours away from his death, He tells his disciples not to be afraid about what’s to come – the Helper is coming! In fact, in light of His ascension, we learn that the Holy Spirit has been sent to convict us through the message of the gospel and comforts us through the man of the gospel – Jesus Christ!

When people say ‘church’ many different things tend to come to mind. For some, church brings up images of stained glass, potlucks, and pews while others might view the church as religious, irrelevant or detached. Additionally, many of us that go to church tend to define our perspective through the lens of our experiences and we rarely consider God’s design for the church and our role within it. Wi...

When people say ‘church’ many different things tend to come to mind. For some, church brings up images of stained glass, potlucks, and pews while others might view the church as religious, irrelevant or detached. Additionally, many of us that go to church tend to define our perspective through the lens of our experiences and we rarely consider God’s design for the church and our role within it. Wi...

When people say ‘church’ many different things tend to come to mind. For some, church brings up images of stained glass, potlucks, and pews while others might view the church as religious, irrelevant or detached. Additionally, many of us that go to church tend to define our perspective through the lens of our experiences and we rarely consider God’s design for the church and our role within it. Wi...

When people say ‘church’ many different things tend to come to mind. For some, church brings up images of stained glass, potlucks, and pews while others might view the church as religious, irrelevant or detached. Additionally, many of us that go to church tend to define our perspective through the lens of our experiences and we rarely consider God’s design for the church and our role within it. Wi...

Jesus spends quite a bit of time inviting his disciples to abide in John 15:1-17 and then, in the following passage, we learn why: a storm of persecution is coming. Jesus wants his followers to know that they’ll be excluded, hated, and even abused for knowing Him but He also wants us to know that the story will never end with persecution. Through persecution, we can know Jesus more and make him kn...

Friends of God! What an amazing truth for those who are in Christ Jesus. Even though Jesus is only hours away from being arrested, beaten and crucified; His focus is still on loving His disciples. He is giving them the pathway to fullness of joy…and it is to ABIDE in Him and love one another the way that He loves them! By this the Father is glorified!

In the Old Testament, Israel is portrayed as a fruitless vine, a metaphor that Jesus changes by Himself becoming the Vine. As the ultimate source of life, Jesus ensures that those connected to Him will bear fruit. This fruit manifests as love, joy, and a profound understanding of and submission to the Father, permeating all aspects of life from relationships to emotions. Fruitfulness originates fr...

The word ‘love’ is used in our culture to describe our attitude toward a wide variety of things. We love our family, we love a spouse, we love food, we love sports, we love traveling, and we certainly love our pets. With so many loves, it’s no wonder that we have a difficult time understanding what Jesus means when he invites us to ‘abide in his love’. Join us as we read John 15:9-13 to learn what...

True life, love, and joy stem from The True Vine, Christ Jesus. Though Christ and His Spirit, God intends to bear fruit in the hearts and lives of His believers.

John 15 is a call and a command to stop living life in our own strength. Jesus knows that apart from Him we can do nothing, so He is helping His disciples by telling them, to abide in Him! If they do and if His Word is abiding in them, then they can ask whatever they wish and it will be done for them. Jesus is telling us how we can bear much fruit, have fullness of joy and live for the glory of Go...

Is the Holy Spirit a feeling, a force, a ghost, or a genie? There are many misunderstandings and misrepresentations of the Holy Spirit in our culture and if you’ve ever felt confused as to the ministry of the Holy Spirit you are not alone! Thankfully, Jesus clearly introduces us to the Holy Spirit in John 14:15-31 and we learn that the Spirit preserves our faith and protects our unity by teaching...

If your road is different than what you expected, if it includes more difficulty and pain and loss and confusion than what you thought would be in store, take heart! Jesus tells us that the path ahead is the same as the path you first started on - it’s the path of faith where life is found! This passage invites us to place our faith in a specific Savior who promises to do very specific things and...

In this passage Peter will ask 2 ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ that all believers have. Jesus, where are you going? Jesus, why can’t I follow you now? Jesus’ answers reveal our need to be obedient in our waiting to be with Him in heaven, and also to be rest assured that our salvation is sealed with Jesus even in the midst of our failures!

We are commanded to love one another the way that Jesus loved us. To love those inside the church with a selfless, sacrificial and forgiving type of love. We are told that the world will know that we are truly followers of Jesus if we do love one another. Praise God that where we fail, Christ succeeded on our behalf and that we remain in His love even when we fail and fall short of loving others!

Judas is cast as the ultimate villain in story of Jesus’ journey to the cross, but have you ever wondered what caused him to betray the Son of God? The gospel accounts invite us to examine Judas’ journey to this moment and as we do, we’ll discover that Judas’ path isn’t that different from our own. However, there is hope. Because Jesus Christ rose from the grave, the shame of our sin can be covere...

Many of us have heard about Jesus washing his disciple’s feet but this story can feel pretty removed from our context and leave us uncertain as to how we might apply this in our everyday lives. Thankfully, feet washing in John 13:1-20 is about so much more than the disciples getting a pedicure. Jesus washes his disciple’s feet as a picture of his love, a promise of his cross, and an invitation for...

At Gospel Life, Biblical Soul Care exists to help people understand their sin and suffering Biblically by applying the good news of Jesus Christ to their lives by faith. We invite you to hear the vision for what Biblical Soul Care looks like for our church family and to discover the gospel motivation of 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 that makes this all possible through Jesus!