King's Church

Before we open the first verse of Jonah together, Pastor Samson walks us through the entire book in this introductory overview, mapping the landscape, naming the themes, and showing why this familiar story is far more searching and far more glorious than most of us have ever realized. At the heart of it is one great theological question that the book itself cannot fully answer, a question that wil...

We completed our study of Total Depravity by adding Romans 8:7-8, where Paul says the unregenerate mind is not merely indifferent toward God but actively hostile, unable to submit to his law or please him. Working through Ephesians 2:1-10 we saw the full anatomy of spiritual death, and then the two most glorious words in the Bible interrupted everything: But God. And as Total Depravity ends, Uncon...

Before the universe existed, before sin entered the world, before a single prophet spoke a word, God had already planned the cross, and history has been the unfolding of that eternal purpose ever since. In this Easter Sunday sermon, Pastor John Samson walks through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, showing that the empty tomb is not the happy ending of a tragic story but the Fat...

This is the true grace of God, and it changes everything. In this closing sermon on 1 Peter, Pastor John Samson shows what Peter most wanted his suffering people to remember, and what he most wants us to remember too. Clear gospel, deep grace, and a word for every exile who needs to know they belong.

An AI interactive discussion based on teaching material by Dr. R.C. Sproul, providing a rigorous defense of the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith alone while contrasting it with Roman Catholic theology. The Vatican teaches a system of infused grace and inherent righteousness that requires human cooperation and sacramental rituals to maintain. In contrast, Sproul maintains that the bibl...

Millions of Christians today are being drawn to the spiritual formation movement, hungry for a deeper, more intimate walk with God, but few realize that the movement's roots stretch back not to the Reformation but to medieval monasticism and mysticism. In this teaching, Pastor John Samson traces that history, exposes the dangerous shift from the objective gospel accomplished for us in Christ to th...

In 1 Peter 5:10-11, Peter gives suffering saints not a coping strategy but a clear view of God, the God of all grace, who has called you to eternal glory in Christ and will personally see you there. In this sermon, Pastor John Samson unpacks one of the most hope-filled promises in the New Testament, showing that the grace of God is inexhaustible, the call of God is irrevocable, and the restoration...

We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners, born spiritually dead, unable to come to God, unable to seek him, unable to understand the things of the Spirit. In this session we work through the full biblical case for Total Depravity and discover that the most humbling doctrine in Scripture leads not to despair but to the most glorious two words in the Bible: But God.

Peter wrote, "Be watchful, your adversary the devil prowls like a roaring lion," as a man who learned that lesson the hard way, around a charcoal fire on the worst night of his life. Most Christians know the devil is real, but very few have seriously studied how he actually works, and in this message from scar tissue we pull back the curtain on his oldest strategies, his most dangerous disguises,...

Every person in the room is carrying something they were never meant to carry. Peter's five words, "because he cares for you," are not a platitude but a theologically grounded invitation to release everything you are gripping onto the pierced hands of the One who proved his care by bleeding for you. Come and discover what it means to actually cast it on him.

Why are you a Christian? Press that question far enough and you will find, as Spurgeon did, that God was at the bottom of it all. In this first session in our series on the Doctrines of Grace, we lay the foundation for all that follows, tracing these ancient and tested truths back to their roots, mapping the three views on man's condition that explain everything, and showing why these doctrines ar...

In a world that celebrates self-promotion, the Bible calls us to something radically different: humility. The way up in God's kingdom is always down. In 1 Peter 5:5-6, Peter calls the whole church to clothe themselves in humility and bow under the mighty hand of God, trusting him to do the lifting. Because the God who opposes the proud is the same God who gives grace to the humble.

In this teaching, John James explores the biblical theme of waiting on the Lord, drawing from Psalm 40 to contrast modern impatience with God's purposeful timing, emphasizing that waiting is an active process of trusting Him for spiritual growth and preparation. He outlines various encouraging scriptures on waiting, three ways to wait (patiently through prayer and confession, expectantly like a fa...

God's will is not a secret. It is not a puzzle. And it is not a dot you can miss. Most of it is already written in His Word, waiting to be obeyed rather than decoded. This message will show you six things God has clearly revealed about His will for your life, and why walking in obedience to what is known is always the surest path to clarity about everything else.

There will come a moment, perhaps sooner than you think, when your feelings give you nothing and your spiritual experience gives you nothing, and you need something solid to stand on. This sermon is about that solid ground. Pastor John Samson opens up the Nicene Creed and shows why seventeen centuries of tested, proven, blood-bought truth still holds when everything else is falling apart.

You have held the bulletin and the yellow sheet on a Sunday at King's Church. Tonight we explained them in detail. From the opening call to worship to the final benediction, every element of our Sunday service has a reason, a biblical foundation, and a gospel story to tell. We walked through the whole service together and showed that what feels like a familiar routine is actually one of the most i...

Why do you do what you do? It's a question we all face, whether we're leading in the church, serving in ministry, or simply trying to live faithfully. In 1 Peter 5:1-4, the Apostle Peter speaks directly to church leaders about the motivations that drive their service, and his words cut to the heart. Are we serving out of compulsion, greed, or pride? Or are we serving willingly, eagerly, and humbly...

A highly informative AI-generated interaction based on three of Pastor John Samson's teaching articles in his online "Got Questions?" series.

What do you do when following Jesus costs you, when obedience brings insults, pressure, or loss? In this sermon from 1 Peter 4:12-19, we'll learn why Peter says "do not be surprised" when the heat comes, and how to entrust your soul to a faithful Creator while continuing to do good. Not strange, but scheduled.

In 1526, they burned Bibles in English outside St. Paul's Cathedral and hunted the men who dared to read them, yet William Tyndale kept translating in the shadows, sustained only by faith, until his execution in 1536. His last words were a prayer, and his legacy became the foundation of the English Bible we hold in our hands today, with over 80% of the King James Version being Tyndale's own words....

This workshop uses the thief on the cross to demonstrate that salvation comes solely through faith in Christ's finished work, not through human effort or religious performance. The training contrasts man-made religious systems (which all demand works) with biblical grace that offers immediate, certain salvation even at life's final moment. Through a six-point framework (God, man, sin, Christ, cros...

Because the end is near and the resurrection is sure, Peter calls pressured believers to live with clear minds and prayerful dependence on God. He calls the church to earnest love that covers offenses, hospitality without grumbling, and every-member ministry, stewarding God's varied grace gifts.

Since Christ suffered in obedience to bring us to God, we must arm our minds with His way of thinking, making a decisive break with sin's rule and living for God's will instead of our passions. When we choose holiness over comfort, the world will be surprised and then slander us, but we can endure this because God is the final Judge who will hold everyone accountable. Therefore, we settle the matt...

How do we know which books belong in our Bible? The answer is not a council vote or human invention. It's recognition of what God gave through His apostles. Jesus affirmed the Hebrew Scriptures as the Old Testament, and He authorized His apostles to write the New Testament. The early church received these writings as Scripture because they bore the marks of apostolic origin, doctrinal soundness, a...

The sermon centers on the biblical imperative to love fellow believers as a defining mark of Christian discipleship, rooted in Jesus' teaching that the greatest commandments are to love God with all one's being and to love one another as oneself. It emphasizes that genuine love for the church is not merely emotional or passive but requires a transformed heart through salvation, intentional presenc...