South Union Sermons

Bottom line: A together life is a better life. The church is a family. As a family we have relationships and connections that are vitally important. The more deeply we connect, the better life is as we worship together, grow together, serve together, and reach "on mission" together for the glory of God.

Bottom line - Applying and/or following God's marriage principles and practices will result in improving, nurturing, and enjoying your marriage. God has a blueprint for marriage. When we apply the principles and practices that God lays out in His Word to our marriages, we move our marriage toward health, or we maintain health in our marriages. This message looks at two principles and three practic...

Bottom line - Godly familial roots help produce godly spiritual fruit, strength, heritage, and legacy.

Bottom line: Mary sacrificed for her son, but her son sacrificed himself for sinners.

Bottom line: Believe Jesus and you will have life eternally. Know Jesus more and more and you will experience life abundantly. John wrote his gospel to prove that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that by believing we would have eternal life. But if we know Jesus more and more as the Word of God, the Creator, the Light of Life, the Son of God, the Lamb of God, the Messiah, the King, we will e...

Bottom line: The sign of the resurrection proclaims we should believe in and be faithful to Jesus, the Son of God. The resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone of our faith and should be rocket fuel for our faithfulness. After the disciples knew Jesus to be the "Resurrection and the Life," their faith never failed, floundered, or wavered. And their faithfulness to follow Jesus, serve Jesus, and fu...

Bottom line: When I believe in the Resurrection and the Life, I receive resurrection to life. The miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead is a precursor to Jesus' own resurrection and a picture of the resurrection we can experience when we believe and trust in Jesus.

Bottom line: I see the Light as Jesus gives me sight. And Jesus comes into sight when I see the Light. In John 9, Jesus declares that He is the Light of the World, and then He performs a miracle that demonstrates He is spiritual light. He is not only the source of light; He is the One who gives the ability to receive and see the light.

Bottom line: The experience of storms is not meant to batter us but to better us. God will use the storms of perfection to test, grow, and stretch our faith. He wants us to believe in WHO He is and trust Him what He will DO. In the storms of perfection we can experience extraordinary moments with Jesus, genuine worship of God, and encouragement from His successes.

Bottom line: Jesus can provide for our every need, and He is the provision for our greatest need. Every miracle has a message, and the message of the feeding of the 5,000 is that Jesus is the true bread of life. He doesn't just sustain physical life, He provides and gives eternal life. We must feed on him (i.e. believe and trust in him) and appropriate his life and sacrifice to ourselves personall...

Bottom line: Only God's grace can change us and give us true life. Every miracle has a message. The message of the healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda is that only God's grace can change us and give us life. Jesus healed this man totally by grace. Jesus sought to woo this man to place faith in Him as Savior. Just as this man could do nothing heal himself physically, he could do nothing to h...

Bottom line: Jesus grows our faith to believe in Him beyond the limitation of what we believe about Him. Jesus grew the Nobleman's faith from believing in something, to believing in something more, to believing in someone (i.e. Himself). He moved his faith from believing in the "do" of Jesus to the "who" of Jesus. This man became a believer in Jesus as Messiah. The thing the Nobleman most wanted c...

Bottom line: Faithful and fruitful servants will receive eternal and valuable reward. One day every believer will stand before Jesus, the righteous judge, to have our works revealed and examined. Our sin was forever judged on the cross. Our salvation is 100% because of Jesus' finished work of the cross. However, our works will be judged to determine reward. This judgment is known as the Judgment (...

Bottom line: Share Jesus with the lost because you care. Share the lost with Jesus in prayer. God works to put believers and non-believers in proximity to one another in the context of life so that the gospel message can be shared and received. Let's share His story. Let's share our story. Let's share what another's story can be. And let's share others in need with Jesus in prayer.

Bottom line: I serve Jesus because He served me.  Jesus saved us to serve. He motivates us with greatness to serve. And in faithfulness we choose to serve. When we choose to serve we grow. When we choose to serve we do something significant. When we choose to serve, we serve Jesus.

Bottom line: Our faithful listening leads to our fruitfulness increasing. In the parable of the sower, Jesus talks about a farmer who goes forth sowing seed. The thing that determined if the seed would bear fruit or not was the condition of the soil. He then correlates that spiritually to the seed of God’s Word and our willingness or unwillingness to listen, receive, and act on it. If we’re willin...

Bottom line: As our family grows in maturity and works the field together, God produces fruit in us, among us, and through us. 

Bottom line: Faithful connection to the Body of Christ allows for the participation in and reception of ministry in the church and the expression of the life of Christ through the church.

Bottom line: The more intentional and purposeful we are in our adoration of God, the more faithful we will be in our fellowship with God.

Bottom line: Faithful study of God's Word equips us to live faithfully for God in this world. If we're going to faithfully study God's Word we have to know the author of the Word, submit to the authority of the Word, feed on a "study" diet of the Word, and apply the truth and principles of the Word.

Bottom line: Joy results from the change made by Jesus.  The first miracle (changing water into wine) declared that Jesus came to change things. His mission is a mission of change. He changed water to wine. He came to change Law to Grace, ritual and religion to relationship. He came to change you.