St. Paul (Peoria) | Pastor Deveraux Hubbard

James doesn't let us stay comfortable. He asks whether we're the same person in every room, or whether we're carrying two competing loyalties at once (praying with our mouths while building a backup plan with our hearts). In this message: - Why James calls divided loyalty "double-mindedness" and how it drains us - How to "consider it joy" without denying real pain - The difference between asking G...

What do you do when you finally get the thing you've been chasing, and your soul still says there has to be more? In this message: - Why the things we build to give life meaning always leave us asking "what else is there" - What the Teacher means by "fear God" and why it's not what most of us think - How God's seeing differs from surveillance (and why that distinction changes everything) - Why the...

Proverbs 20:7 makes a quiet but disruptive claim: the most durable thing any of us leaves behind is not what we accomplished. It's how we walked. Not what we intended. Not what we said we valued. The actual direction of our daily life. This message confronts something most of us avoid. We spend enormous energy managing outcomes we can't control while giving very little attention to the one thing w...

When life feels empty, faith anchors us in what endures.

Long before a child can read Scripture, the world is already shaping how they see themselves, how they handle pain, and what they believe about who they are. Ancient Israel understood something most modern parents have forgotten: the home was always the primary formation institution, not the synagogue, not the school.  In this message: - Why the question is never "are they being formed?" but "by w...

What do you do when God has given you everything you wanted -- and it still isn't enough? That's the question sitting at the center of 2 Samuel 12. David was at the peak of his career -- king of Israel, military victories stacking up, a covenant promise from God himself. He had more than most people could imagine. And it still wasn't enough. In this message: - Why God sometimes blesses you with th...

In this message: - Why going back to "before the curse" in Genesis 2 changes how we see marriage - The difference between living out a covenant versus operating on a contract - What Proverbs 18:22 actually says about finding a spouse (and what it means for how you search) - Why character has to be formed, not just found, and what that looks like practically - How Jesus as the True Bridegroom refra...

What happens when you do everything right and still feel like it's not enough? Proverbs offers a reframe about how to work and who you are while you're working. In this message: - Why hustle and avoidance are two sides of the same broken question - What Proverbs actually says about work (and what it doesn't) - The difference between working for approval and working from calling - How to build rhyt...

In this message: * Why your words are evidence, not the actual problem * What the Flint water crisis reveals about unaddressed sources in our own lives * Why Proverbs 4:23 is a command you cannot keep by willpower alone * How Jesus fulfills what Ezekiel promised — a new heart, not a repaired one * Four practical ways to stay connected to the Spirit who is already at work inside you

Nothing in your life is outside of God's sovereign control, and nothing that reaches you is beyond his ability to redeem. In this message: - Why feelings of being out of control are real but are not the final word - The default systems we lean on instead of God (and why they always have a limit) - What the name Yahweh actually communicates about who we are trusting - What "acknowledge him in all y...

In this message: - Why having more information hasn't made us more steady -- and what's actually missing - What Solomon means by "the fear of the Lord" and why it's not about terror - How algorithms and culture are forming us whether we notice it or not - Why wisdom in Proverbs shows up as a person, not a principle - What it looks like practically to consult Jesus like he's actually present This w...

Jesus endured the cross for the joy set before Him—our faith begins and ends in Him.

Will you finish what you started in your walk with Jesus? Drawing from Matthew 21 and Hebrews 12, this sermon contrasts the crowd that shouted “Hosanna” with the reality that many later fell away by slowly drifting and no longer showing up. In this sermon, we’re reminded to lay aside the weights that trip us up, resist the pull to shrink back, and run our race with endurance, trusting that God has...

Whether God gives us miraculous deliverance or we walk through hardship, our hope is the same: Jesus has already secured the final victory. One day, when Christ returns, every promise will be fulfilled. Every tear will be wiped away. Every act of faith will be rewarded. Until that day, we live by faith.

Faith determines how we respond to God's activity in our lives. In this message: • Why faith is not the absence of fear—it's movement in the presence of fear • How faith starts small but grows through obedience • Why we might not be seeing God work because we don't trust His plan • The truth that your past doesn't have to hold you back

We use the word "calling" constantly but rarely define it. The result is pressure without purpose and anxiety without direction. Stop treating your current life as a waiting room until you "discover your calling." Moses didn't wait for clarity on everything—he acted on what God made clear. He chose obedience to God over comfort. He valued a different currency. He embraced suffering with God's peop...

Faith lets go, knowing God never takes without giving something better back.

What do you do when you've done everything right and still things don't work out? This week, Pastor Hubbard confronts one of scripture's most unsettling phrases: "They all died in faith, although they had not received the things that were promised." They died still waiting, still trusting, still believing—without seeing fulfillment. So how do you walk by faith when fulfillment seems distant? In th...

What do you do when God has promised, but hasn't produced? Most of us don't struggle believing God can do the impossible. We struggle believing He'll do it for us. We've learned to say "God is able" in church, but we're not sure we believe it applies to our situation. This week, Pastor Hubbard tackles the hardest part of faith, which is believing God can do the impossible for you, even when the dr...

What if God asked you to move without telling you where you're going? Most of us want clarity before commitment. We need the route planned, the hotel booked, the backup plan ready. But Abraham shows us that faith begins with trusting the One who's guiding you. In this message: - Why faith trusts the Maker, not the map - How to embrace a pilgrim's mentality in a world that demands we settle - The p...

This week, don’t ask God for a new direction. Ask God one simple question this week: ‘What is the next clear step You’ve already shown me?’ and take it, even if it feels small. Are you moving like you believe Him?

A life that pleases God is lived in alignment with Him, moment by moment!

What you build in faith today becomes the echo of God’s story tomorrow.

We’re starting a new series in Hebrews 11 by asking a simple but demanding question: what does it actually sound like to live by faith? Through Hebrews 11:1–3, we learn that: • Faith gives hope a voice through action, not just belief • Faith has always been the defining rhythm of God’s people, even in uncertainty • Faith tunes us to a deeper reality shaped by God’s word, not just visible outcomes...