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Christ could return at any moment. So how should that truth shape the way you live today? In this exposition of 2 Peter 3:14-15, Pastor Jim Osman shows that Peter calls believers to two things as they wait for the Lord's coming: live blamelessly and think evangelistically. Osman traces Peter's repeated call to diligence, first raised in chapter 1 and now returning in these closing verses. Holiness...

Will there be pets in heaven? Will people recognize each other? A recent Q&A with fifth and sixth graders raised these very questions, and Pastor Jim Osman uses them as the doorway into one of Scripture's richest promises: the new heavens and the new earth. Continuing the exposition of 2 Peter 3:13, Osman traces this promise back to its source in Isaiah 65 and 66, then unpacks a question every...

The coming destruction of the present creation is not just a doctrine to believe—it's a call to live differently. In this expository sermon from 2 Peter 3:11–12, Pastor Jim Osman draws out the practical weight of Peter's eschatological teaching and presses it into the conscience of every believer. Peter's concluding exhortations are clear: those who genuinely believe Christ will return are marked...

Two thousand years feels like a long time to wait. Jim Osman says that's exactly the point. Continuing through 2 Peter 3, Osman tackles the mockers' challenge in verse 4: where is the promise of His coming? Peter's answer comes in two parts, and this sermon focuses on the second: God's patience. Osman walks through what that patience actually means, tracing it back through Exodus, Isaiah, and the...

Trouble has a strange way of feeling like a curse. Phil Johnson makes the case from James 1:2–4 that for the Christian, it's actually the opposite. Working through one of the earliest letters in the New Testament, Johnson identifies the James who wrote it: not the apostle, but the Lord's half-brother who became the leading elder in the Jerusalem church. From there, he turns to the text itself, "co...

The mockers had a question: Where is the promise of His coming? Time had passed. Apostles had died. Nothing had changed. Pastor Jim Osman addresses that question head-on as he works through 2 Peter 3:8 — and the answer is as pointed today as it was in the first century. God does not experience time as we do. He is not encumbered by it, constrained by it, or running out of it. He meets no deadlines...

Grief is universal. But not all grief is the same. In this message from 1 Thessalonians 4:13–14, guest speaker Cornel Rasor opens with a pastoral truth that Paul made plain to the Thessalonians: Christians do not grieve as those who have no hope. The distinction isn't about grieving less—it's about grieving differently. The sorrow is real. The tears are real. But the hopelessness isn't. Rasor walk...

Anxiety is everywhere. Roughly 38 million American adults are taking medication to manage it—a number that has climbed sharply since 2019. But anxiety isn't just a modern problem, and it isn't merely a clinical one. In this message from Philippians 4:5–7, guest speaker David Forsyth makes the case that anxiety is a sin of little faith—common to all believers, not unique to a few—and that Scripture...

Climate alarmists have been predicting the end of the world for decades—and getting it entirely wrong. Pastor Jim Osman opens this exposition of 2 Peter 3:7 and 10 by showing why: they begin with the wrong assumptions. God has already revealed how this world ends, and it has nothing to do with carbon footprints or melting ice caps. Peter's answer to the false teachers who denied the return of Chri...

The false teachers of Peter's day had a simple argument: things have always continued as they are, so there is no reason to expect a cataclysmic divine judgment in the future. Pastor Jim Osman works through 2 Peter 3:5-6 to show how Peter dismantles that argument—not by predicting the future, but by pointing to the past. Peter's first move is to expose the nature of the false teachers' error. They...

Peter warned the church that mockers would come. Pastor Jim Osman works through 2 Peter 3:1-4, examining the identity, motive, and arguments of those who deny the return of Christ—and why their denial is never as innocent as it appears. Two thousand years have passed since the promise was made. That passage of time is precisely what the mockers weaponize. Their question—"Where is the promise of Hi...

Peter opens 2 Peter 3 with two pastoral aims: to stir up the sincere minds of his readers and to call them back to the truth they already know. False teachers in his day were mocking the promise of Christ's return — dismissing it as myth and pointing to the silence of the centuries as proof it would never happen. Peter's answer? Remember what has been promised. In this expository message, Pastor J...

No Christian enjoys suffering — and the Apostle Paul knew that better than most. Called by God from the start of his ministry to endure affliction for the name of Christ, Paul wrote 2 Corinthians as a deeply pastoral letter to a church that had caused him tremendous pain. Yet rather than retreat from suffering, Paul broke into praise. In this sermon from 2 Corinthians 1:3–7, Simon Pranaitis shows...

The Resurrection of Christ is not just a Sunday morning doctrine — it is the foundation that holds up the entire Christian life. In this exposition of 2 Corinthians 4:13–5:10, Pastor Jim Osman draws out four concrete certainties that resurrection hope produces in the life of the believer and the minister of the gospel. First, our testimony is true. Because Christ is risen, Paul could not be silenc...

Death haunts everything — every joy, every marriage, every birth. But Pastor Jim Osman opens this exposition of 2 Timothy 1:8–11 with a declaration that cuts through every shadow: death has died. Writing from prison and facing his own execution, Paul calls Timothy to suffer for the gospel rather than retreat from it. His case rests on the gospel itself — a gospel dense with grace from eternity pas...

Pastor Jim Osman opens in Psalm 119:97–104 with the psalmist's breathtaking declaration — "Oh, how I love your law!" — and shows what that kind of love actually looks like and what it produces in the life of a believer. This passage divides naturally into two halves, each anchored by a defining affection. The first four verses trace the fruit of loving the Word: wisdom that surpasses enemies, insi...

Knowledge of the truth is not the same as being changed by it. In this message from 2 Peter 2:21–22, Pastor Jim Osman brings chapter 2 to its sobering close with a warning that cuts close to home — the false teacher and the apostate aren't condemned for what they never knew, but for what they knew and walked away from. Drawing on two of the most vivid images in the New Testament — a dog returning...

Peter's command to submit to civil authority sounds straightforward—until you consider who he was writing to. His first readers lived under Emperor Nero, one of the most brutal, murderous, and self-proclaimed divine rulers in history. And Peter told them to submit. That tension is exactly where this sermon begins. In this message from 1 Peter 2:13–17, Dave Rich works carefully through what Peter a...

False teachers don't just get theology wrong — they enslave their followers. In this exposition of 2 Peter 2:19-20, Pastor Jim Osman examines three devastating contrasts Peter draws to expose the destruction false teachers leave in their wake: the contrast between freedom and slavery, between escaping and being entangled again, and between a person's last state and their first. False teachers prom...

False teachers don't just teach wrong things — they ruin people. That's the heartbeat of this passage, and the burden that drives this exposition of 2 Peter 2:17-18. Pastor Jim Osman continues through 2 Peter 2 by turning from the character and condemnation of false teachers to the carnage they leave behind. Using two vivid images from the ancient world — a spring that holds no water and a mist th...

Jim Osman examines one of the Old Testament's most troubling figures: Balaam, the prophet for hire who tried to curse God's people for money. Though God spoke through him, Balaam was driven by greed and immorality, making him the perfect example of the false teachers Peter warns against. This message walks through Numbers 22-24, answering questions about why God used such a wicked man and what it...

Jim Osman continues his examination of false teachers in 2 Peter 2, focusing on their perversions and moral corruption. Opening with a sobering account of the Mike Bickle scandal and how charismatic leaders failed to discern his true character despite decades of abuse, Osman demonstrates why Peter's warnings remain urgent for today's church. He exposes three defining characteristics of false teach...

Jim Osman returns to 2 Peter 2 with a hard-hitting examination of false teachers and their defining characteristics. In verses 10-13, Peter paints a vivid portrait of those who infiltrate the church with destructive heresies, and Osman carefully unpacks what makes these teachers so dangerous. The passage reveals three striking indicators of their pride: they are insolent in their blasphemy of spir...

Jim Osman guides listeners through Psalm 119:33-40, revealing four essential prayers every believer should bring before God regarding His Word. This isn't merely an intellectual exercise—it's a roadmap for spiritual transformation through Scripture. Osman unpacks how the psalmist longed for God to grant understanding that leads to obedience, not just head knowledge. He challenges listeners to pray...

Pastor Jim Osman expounds 2 Peter 2:5-9, revealing how God accomplished a righteous deliverance for Noah and Lot amid worldwide judgment. Though Noah stood alone against billions and Lot lived among the wicked Sodom, God preserved both because He knows those who are His. This exposition demonstrates that God consistently distinguishes between the righteous and the ungodly. Believers today can find...