King's Church

What if the gospel is not the front door of the Christian life but the whole house? Preached the morning after America's 250th birthday, this message from Colossians 1:3-14 traces one startling discovery in Paul's own words: the same gospel that saved you is the gospel that is still growing you, this week and every week. If you have ever wondered what the cross has to do with an ordinary Tuesday,...

Most of us believe the gospel is central; fewer of us find it actually functioning day by day, doing its work on our fear, our failure, and our tiredness. This midweek teaching lays out a simple picture, the gospel at the center of three circles, and shows how the truth that saved you goes on to reshape how you think and how you live. Come and learn to make the connection for yourself, so that the...

The book of Jonah ends not with the prophet's answer but with God's question, "And should not I pity Nineveh?", left hanging in the air for every reader to answer. In this final message of our Jonah series, we watch God pursue a sulking, bitter prophet through a plant, a worm, and a wind, until the question of His mercy presses all the way to the cross, where the Father did not spare His own Son....

In this teaching on Psalm 139, elder John James invites us to behold the God who is infinitely vast yet knows each of us intimately, searching us, surrounding us, and holding us in His hand through every hour and every day of our lives. With warm pastoral application, vivid illustration, and his own testimony of God's nearness in the death of his brother, he shows why this complete knowledge is no...

We expect the story of Jonah to end with a city saved and a prophet rejoicing. Instead, it ends with him sulking outside the walls, furious that God has been merciful. This sermon asks the question God puts to Jonah, and to us: do we do well to be angry when grace runs to the people we had written off? It is a searching look at the heart, and a clear sight of the Savior who, unlike Jonah, died so...

What happens to a death sentence when the condemned actually repent? When Nineveh turned, God relented, and this sermon faces the question that raises head on: how can a God who never changes truly change His mind, and if the disaster was lifted, where did it finally go? The answer travels from a pagan city spared on the edge of ruin all the way to a hill outside Jerusalem, where the greater Jonah...

The cruelest city in the ancient world heard one sentence of preaching, and turned. The remarkable thing is that the preacher was not the reason. A sermon on how God turns the hardest hearts, and the greater Jonah who walked into the judgment himself.

In this session we step into what may be the hardest and most searching chapter in all of Paul's letters, Romans 9, and we find that the apostle himself teaches it not with cold logic but with great sorrow and unceasing anguish for his own people. Working carefully through the account of Israel within Israel, we see from Ishmael and Isaac, and then decisively from Jacob and Esau, that God's choice...

In Jonah 2, we find the runaway prophet in the belly of the fish, but the surprising thing is this: he is not mainly begging to get out, he is giving thanks because God has already rescued him from death. This sermon traces Jonah's prayer from the depths, showing how the Lord brings wandering sinners low, teaches them to cry out again, strips away false refuges, and leads them to confess, "Salvati...

In this session we track a simple but powerful observation through Romans 8:31-39: the words we and us appear again and again, and every single time they refer to the same specific group, God's elect people, foreknown, predestined, called, justified, and glorified. From that foundation we explore Particular Redemption, seeing that when Paul says Christ was given up for us all, the us is not humani...

The most famous verse in the book of Jonah is deceptively brief, and most of us have walked past it for years. But Jonah 1:17 holds a divine appointment, a great fish, three days and three nights, and behind all of it the Lord Jesus Christ saying, "this verse is about Me." The God who hurled the storm also appointed the fish, and the fish that should have been a coffin became a shelter. Listen in...

In this session, we begin the discovery that all five doctrines of grace are embedded within a single sustained passage of Scripture, Romans 8 and into Romans 9, framed by two of the most breathtaking promises in the Bible: no condemnation and no separation. We work carefully through the Golden Chain of Redemption in Romans 8:28-30, seeing that God foreknew, predestined, called, justified, and wil...

Elder John James works carefully through 1 John, John 6, John 10, and Romans 8, showing that the believer's confidence rests not on shifting emotions or personal performance, but on the finished work of Christ, the witness of the Spirit, and the keeping power of God. Along the way, he draws on Spurgeon, Calvin, Luther, and the 1689 Confession, and closes with the last words of dying saints like Bu...

Elder Warren Smith brings a warm and edifying message from Colossians 1:9-12, walking through the apostle Paul's prayer priorities for the Colossian church. Rather than coasting on a good report, Paul intensified his intercession, and Warren shows how Paul's six concerns ought to shape the way we pray for one another.

Were the pagan sailors who fell on their knees in Jonah 1:16 actually saved? Jonah is hurled into the sea, the storm stops, and the men who watched it happen worship the LORD by name with sacrifices and vows. In four short verses, we see the unstoppable mercy of God reaching sinners on the deck while pursuing his runaway prophet into the deep. And in the shape of a man hurled into the storm of God...

On what grounds does God choose his people? In this session we complete the positive case for Unconditional Election, showing from Deuteronomy 7 and across the New Testament that the ground of God's choice is never found in the one chosen but always and entirely in God himself. And we discover that this doctrine, far from being cold or discouraging, produces the three things every Christian most n...

When a runaway prophet was exposed on a heaving deck, God drew a true sermon from the very mouth that fled him. But verse 12 reveals a heart that would still rather drown than preach mercy to enemies. Jonah was hurled into the sea unwillingly. Christ entered the storm of God's wrath willingly, so that mercy could reach every Nineveh on earth. Come and see two prophets, two cups, and the Savior who...

We continue our study of the Doctrines of Grace by answering three common objections to Total Depravity, and then move into one of the most searching and glorious doctrines in all of Scripture: Unconditional Election. From Ephesians 1 to Deuteronomy 7, we see that God's choice of his people is rooted entirely in himself, not in anything he foresaw in us, and that this truth has been woven into the...

Two groups of Reformed theologians share the same gospel and the same Bible, yet divide over the subjects of baptism. In this deep dive, we walk through Tom Hicks's careful analysis of where Reformed Paedo-Baptists and Reformed Baptists actually disagree on covenants, hermeneutics, worship, and church practice. (This is an AI-generated podcast based on resources curated and reviewed by John Samson...

Some of God's people are sleeping in the hold while the world rages around them, and some have never known the God who pursues runaways through storms and unexpected voices. This sermon walks through Jonah 1:5-6 to show how the same God who would not let His prophet escape is still at work today, calling the drifting and the lost back to Himself. The greater Jonah has already borne the storm. Come...

In 1901, a group of missionaries boarded ships for Japan, China, and India, utterly convinced God would supernaturally give them the local language the moment they stepped off the gangplank. Not one of them could be understood, and the aftermath reshaped a global movement that is still with us today. In this episode we trace the architectural blueprint of the early church, the Colossian hunger for...

In Jonah 1:3-4, two phrases change everything: "but Jonah" and "but the Lord." This sermon traces the anatomy of sophisticated spiritual rebellion and the anatomy of a pursuing grace that will not let God's people go, pressing on the quiet lines we all draw in our hearts. The greater Jonah is still calling people by name, and this message will leave you with one invitation ringing in your ears: Ri...

Two ancient Christian traditions, separated by a thousand years of history, a papal decree hurled onto a sacred altar, and a single catastrophic Latin mistranslation, turn out to be asking the same ultimate question every human being faces alone in the dark: am I actually safe? From the incense-filled domes of Constantinople to the freezing bottom of the Mariana Trench, this podcast traces the fau...

Evangelical Christians and Latter-day Saints use the exact same vocabulary, words like God, Jesus, grace, and salvation, but mean something startlingly and profoundly different by every single one of them. This episode cuts beneath the shared language to reveal two completely irreconcilable theological universes, showing that the differences are not minor variations on the same theme but a fundame...

In this opening sermon of our series on the book of Jonah, we open just two verses -- but those these carry enough theological and pastoral weight to occupy us for an entire morning. At the heart of the text is a God who speaks, who sees, who sends, and whose mercy refuses to stay inside the boundaries we draw for it.