Reach Sermon Archive

This week on That’s a REACH Pastors Matt and Taylor discuss how to trust God through the process of dating by leaving hands open to the Lord’s will while also not “over spiritualizing” the process. They also discuss how to get over the anxieties of not being ready or good enough to form a relationship with someone, and finally, how to understand 1 Corinthians 7 on whether it’s better to be married...

Do you realize how much God loves you? He does not only love you in eternity. He also loves you right here and right now. We serve a God who loves us like a son and wants to give us peace and prosperity. This week Pastor Taylor talks about eternal promises of God in Genesis 49:1-33. Get connected! https://linktr.ee/reachtulsa

The Bible never talks about dating. That is because dating is a cultural expression of how we end up married. The Bible's concern is how we put the Gospel on display in marriage. If we would focus on that Gospel centered result, dating appropriately wouldn't be so confusing. In this episode, Pastor Taylor talks about the incorruptible quality of the Gospel in marriage in 1 Peter 3:1-7. Get...

The physical world can help us understand spiritual truths. The problem is we often just let it distract us from seeing anything spiritual at all. If we began to use our physical reality to understand and seek God we would see His hand everywhere. This week Pastor Taylor talks about seeing the faithfulness of God everywhere in Genesis 37 and 38. Get connected! https://linktr.ee/reachtulsa

This week on That’s a REACH Matt, Taylor, Josh, and Taylor discuss questions about being content in seasons when life is moving slow and everyone else your age seems to be moving up in life quickly, How to know if you’re actually where God has called you to be, and how to combat not trusting God’s plans for your life and how to let go of control. Get connected! https://linktr.ee/reachtulsa

How are Christians supposed to view our relationships? When do I stand up for myself? When do I put others first? Peter frames all our relationships against Christ's sacrifice for us. This week, Pastor Taylor talks about sacrificial living in 1 Peter 2:18-25. Get Connected! https://linktr.ee/reachtulsa

What are you enslaved to? You will give yourself to something or someone in this life, but only God’s man can give you life. Many others will promise life only to take it. This week Pastor Taylor talks about the source of life in Genesis 47:1-27.  Get connected! https://linktr.ee/reachtulsa

How do we navigate being in the world and not of the world? The Bible tells us how to relate to those around us, and it tells us why it's important. We do everything we do for the sake of the Gospel. In this episode, Pastor Taylor talks about our identity in the world in 1 Peter 2:11-17. Get Connected! https://linktr.ee/reachtulsa

Sometimes we forget that God has plans for our lives. As Christians, He has already done the impossible by making us right with Him. If He has done the impossible, why would we doubt Him with all of our earthly plans? This week Pastor Taylor talks about submitting to God’s plans in Genesis 46:1-34. Get connected! https://linktr.ee/reachtulsa

This week on That’s a REACH Pastors Taylor and Matt discuss the differences in praying for the destruction of our enemies as mentioned in the bible and loving our enemies by turning the other cheek and how this is not contradictory, where to go to be updated on current events such as politics and how to have biblical discernment when taking in information from biased sources, and finally what it m...

Are you built into the church? If you are not built into the church, you are not built on Christ. Christ is the foundation of the church. Church is not an individual effort, it's a group effort towards sanctification and disciple making. In this episode, Pastor Taylor talks about making disciples as part of the church in 1 Peter 2:4-10. Get Connected! https://linktr.ee/reachtulsa

Often times, we don’t realize just how sinful we are in our nature. We ignore the wrath of God in our lives which He righteously implores on us in order to turn us away from our depravity and back to Him. Maybe we don’t quite realize God’s wrath is actually an act of love for the world, to save those who yield to it and to bring justice who are defiant of it. This week guest speaker Josh Randol ta...

You were not saved just so you could spend eternity comfortable in heaven. If that were the case, we would get saved, and God would just zap us into heaven. You were born again for a purpose. That purpose is meant to be lived out in this life. In this episode, Pastor Taylor talks about living out the love of Christ in 1 Peter 1:22-2:3. Get Connected! https://linktr.ee/reachtulsa

We all often struggle with having purpose, or feeling like we have purpose, we often feel like loving others the way Christ does is nearly impossible, it’s believing and truly putting our faith in the power of God’s love that sets us free to live out the Gospel centered life. This week guest speaker Josh Randol talks about putting our Faith in God’s Righteousness rather than ourselves from Romans...

This week on That’s a REACH we’re joined by special guest Keeva O’Mealey to talk about discerning the difference between spiritual warfare and our own weakness in our flesh as while as knowing when and how to use medication such as anxiety medication because of a physical issue or biblical counseling due to a spiritual issue. We also discuss how we as Christians should behave and around non-believ...

We understand that we are called to obedience. But the Bible seems to indicate that we are called to perfection. How can we possibly be perfect? We cannot accomplish perfection, but we are made perfect. We are made perfect by Him who is perfect. In this episode, Pastor Taylor talks about how obedience is possible in 1 Peter 1:13-21. Get Connected! https://linktr.ee/reachtulsa

When we think about suffering, we typically think of persecution. But suffering for the cause of Christ is when we deny ourselves in the flesh in order to be more like Christ. If we are not suffering for Christ each day how do we know that we love Him? In this episode, Pastor Taylor starts a series on suffering in 1 Peter. Get Connected! https://linktr.ee/reachtulsa

We are called to embrace a life of servanthood, following the perfect example of Christ. Fully surrendered to the Father, Jesus showed us how to live in humble submission, and we are to walk in His footsteps. This week guest speaker Andrew Gabbert talks about following God in the Freedom of Christ in 2 Corinthians 2:12-17.  Get connected! https://linktr.ee/reachtulsa

This week on That’s a REACH, pastors Matt and Taylor discuss their calls to pastoral ministry, how to identify our spiritual gifts and use them biblically to serve the Church, and how to live a life on mission day in and day out regardless of occupation. Get connected! https://linktr.ee/reachtulsa To send in a question, click the link below: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeX367n9aLUl3qn...

In this episode, hear a sermon and Q&A session from special guest speaker Dr. Michael Reeves! Dr. Michael Reeves is the President of Union School of Theology, UK and joined us to preach to the REACH young adult community and share the parable of the pharisee and the publican from Luke 18:9-14 on how to live with integrity towards the Gospel by humbly receiving God's Grace and Forgiveness o...

The Lord invests in all of us, starting with life and time as essential resources. What we do with that investment is consequential and requires proper perspective and humility to honor the Lord with it. In this episode, Pastor Matt concludes his sermon series on the Kingdom Parables in Matthew 25. Get Connected! https://linktr.ee/reachtulsa

Are you still holding onto this life? God wants to trade you this life for true life. He wants to trade you for life eternal. Don’t lose life eternal because you are not willing to make the trade. This week Pastor Taylor talks about the testimony of true life in Genesis 45:1-28. Get connected! https://linktr.ee/reachtulsa

This week on That’s a REACH, Matt, Taylor, Josh, and Taylor discuss what it truly means to ABIDE in Christ, How the modern church is to grow from the foundation of the early church and not grow away from it or disconnect from it, and how to live in the freedom that the Gospel provides while not taking advantage of God’s grace, freely displaying the Gospel by our actions and words rather than tarni...

As Kingdom citizens, we're called to live out a different ethic than the world. Instead of seeking vengeance and keeping a record of wrong, as those who are forgiven much by Christ, we reflect Christ when we forgive others. In this episode, Pastor Matt continues his sermon series on the Kingdom Parables in Matthew 18. Get Connected! https://linktr.ee/reachtulsa

We spend so much time trying to justify our petty and insignificant disputes. We never want to be accused of anything that we feel we didn’t actually do. The problem is that God does not care about how many times you’re proven right for something you didn’t do. He cares that you repent of the significant iniquity you are guilty of in your spirit. This week Pastor Taylor talks about repenting of ou...