Keystone Church | Paradise Sermons

Joel Wood | Aug. 07 2022 Jesus has shown us what God is really like. Jesus as also shown us what love is really like. If we want to know God, we look to Jesus. If we want to know love, we look to Jesus. We live in a time where God is love has been turned into love is God. We assume that we are able to discover love on our own and then our view of love should be universally acceptable. The Christia...

Joel Wood | July 31 2022 We need to be discerning in who we give our ears and or attention to. Just because people sound good does not mean we should listen to them. Just because people are saying what we like does not mean we should listen to them. Discernment on what voices and what content we allow into our lives takes work, but is worth the effort. We find joy in discerning what is true and al...

Kyle Kauffman | July 24 2022 So many of us live with a constant low-level sense of condemnation. We are painfully aware of our sinfulness. We are painfully aware of all the ways that we have failed God or other people. We are painfully aware of the fact that we don’t measure up in some area where we feel like we should measure up. Whether it’s because of what other people have said to us, what Sat...

Kyle Kauffman | July 17, 2022 The church is not meant to be a place where we smile at each other, make small talk with one another, but secretly we are indifferent to each other or harbor hateful thoughts and feelings toward each other. Too often this is what we settle for: a smile on the outside with a heart of indifference or hate on the inside. This is no different than Cain. We find the power...

Kyle Kauffman | July 10 2022 We all take our freedom very seriously. We don’t want anyone encroaching on our freedom or taking away a part of our freedom. But do we realize that true freedom is not found in living however we want, but rather in living how God designed us and wants us to live? While a life lived for self may seem to be a life of freedom, in reality it’s a life controlled by sin and...

Kyle Kauffman | July 03 2022 One of the greatest privileges of being a Christian is to be adopted by God. Our adoption into God’s family should be a continual source of joy for us. God has made you his child forever. Which means that we have all the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of belonging to God’s family. We can find peace in knowing God is our Father. We can find value in knowing we...

Kyle Kauffman | June 26 2022 We are called to endure in our faith and we can live with confidence that we will endure because God is the one who enables our endurance. His grace enables us to resist falling away. His grace enables us to see through lies that undermine our faith. His grace is what gets you through to the finish line. If your faith is currently in Jesus then you can take comfort in...

Kyle Kauffman | June 19 2022 We are called to endure in our faith. Not everyone does this. There are people who seem to have faith that turn away. This is especially tempting in an age where deconstruction of faith is seen as heroic. God calls us to endure in our faith and not give way to the people or pressures that might tempt us to walk away. We should recognize that endurance in our faith is c...

Ben Armstrong | June 12 2022 We are creatures made to love. But what we love and how we love are eternally consequential decisions. John warns us not to love the world or the things of this world. God, the creator of all things good, is to be our guide as we learn to love others and things with a proper foundation of a love for God. It is when we seek to love things that are not of God or love thi...

Brandon Fisher | June 05 2022 It’s easy for us to live defeated lives. We see our sin and feel defeated. We see the hurt and suffering in the world and feel defeated. We see the evil in the world and feel helpless in the face of it. A defeated life is not a life that is full of joy. God wants us to live with a faith-fueled confidence in this life. This is a confidence that is not rooted in ourselv...

Kyle Kauffman | May 29 2022 Do we love other Christians? That’s the question John wants us to ask as we read 1 John 2:7-11. Love for others serves as the sign that God has saved us and that we are united to Jesus by faith. John gives us two polar opposites: Love for other Christians and Hate for other Christians. And then he wants us to ask, Which direction are we headed in? And in the process Joh...

Joel Wood | May 22 2022 To be unsure about something important is stressful and difficult. In a similar way, to be sure of something that is untrue can be very dangerous. God does not want us to be unsure about our salvation. Neither does he want us to have a false sense of security if we aren’t saved. God gives us means by which we can be assured of our salvation because he wants us to experience...

Kyle Kauffman | May 15 2022 We often think of Jesus in terms of his past ministry – what he did when he lived, died, and was raised – and his future ministry – what he will do when he returns one day. But what about his present, right now, moment by moment ministry? Jesus is our Savior right now and his present ministry continues to save us. While his past and future ministry on our behalf can bri...

Kyle Kauffman | May 08 2022 We are prone to put the best version of ourselves forward for others to see. We all want to appear as though we have it together and don’t struggle with sin. We don’t want to appear weak or broken before other people. This leads us to hide and cover up the areas of our lives we don’t want other people to see. It leads us to perform and act as if we are better than we re...

Kyle Kauffman | May 01 2022 Doctrine matters to our faith. Right doctrine is central to our faith. We need to know what we believe and why we believe it. But we can so easily make assent to right doctrine the end of our faith. And if we desire right doctrine simply so that we can say we are right, we are missing out on why doctrine matters in the first place: because it enables us to know a person...

Kyle Kauffman | Apr. 24 2022 In John’s gospel he records these famous words from Jesus: “I have come that you may have life and have it abundantly.” When we think about what it means to be a Christian, probably some of the first words that jump to mind are faith, repentance, following Jesus, etc. How often are the first words that jump to mind when we think about being a Christian that we may have...

Kyle Kauffman | Apr. 17 2022 There are so many things in this life that can cause us to weep. Broken bodies, broken relationships, broken hopes, a broken world, and many more things cause us to suffer under the weight of life in a fallen world and bring tears to our eyes. This is why Jesus first words (question) on the heels of his resurrection are both so shocking and comforting… “Woman, why are...

Kyle Kauffman | Apr. 10 2022 There are moments in life where we must entrust things into the care of other people. Lovers entrust their hearts to one another. Parents entrust their children to others when they go away. We entrust our finances to a financial advisor. Sick people entrust their health to a doctor. Aging parents entrust their kids with their care. What we are doing in those moments is...

Joel Wood | Apr. 03 2022 One of the great feelings we have as humans is to finish something significant. Finishing high school, finishing a big house project, finishing finals after a difficult semester at college, finishing a big project at work, finishing a day full of laundry, running errands, and caring for kids, finishing the work week and coming home on a Friday night. To finish something gi...

Kevin King | Mar. 27 2022

Kyle Kauffman | Mar. 20 2022 One of the ways to speak of unsatisfied longings in our life is to use the language of thirst. Just as our mouths grow dry and our bodies long for water to quench our thirst, so also our hearts and souls thirst for what we believe will satisfy us. As Jesus calls out on the cross of his thirst he reveals that the longing to find satisfaction that quenches our thirst is...

Kyle Kauffman | Mar. 13 2022 Our biggest problem is that we are sinners and because we are sinners, we deserve to both have God pour out his wrath on us and abandon us. Sin must be dealt with. This is why Jesus had to die. He took on the full weight of God’s punishment and wrath toward sin on the cross. He was our substitute bearing God’s wrath in our place. We either stand underneath the cross, o...

Kyle Kauffman | Mar. 06 2022 Jesus views his family in a unique way. He is not controlled by his family and he warns against the idolatry of family. Yet he honors his family and cares for them even in the moments of greatest agony. He expands his family to include all who believe and obey him. In Jesus death, we see him creating a new family at the cross. No longer is family simply defined by our...

Joel Wood | Feb. 27 2022 To say that salvation is found in Christ alone is deeply offensive. It means that all of our “good deeds,” all the things that we look at in ourselves to take pride in or boast about count for nothing. It means that we are no better than a criminal who mocks Jesus as he dies. It means that there is no salvation outside of Christ. But to say that salvation is found in Chris...

Kyle Kauffman | Feb. 20 2022 Forgiveness is so central to Christianity that we can easily forget what a wonder it is that we are forgiven. Jesus’s first words on the cross open our eyes to see our own sinful depravity and God’s glorious grace. We see humans who gleefully and mercilessly kill the Son of God as they blindly fail to grasp the weight of their deeds. And yet we see the depth of God’s l...