Sunday Sermons

It is because of the gospel that we live out the Great Commission. The gospel message that grabbed our hearts and took hold of our lives is what we want everyone else to know and that's our mission. Jesus told his followers to go and make more followers. And he told us how: Make disciples of all nations by baptizing them into Jesus and teaching them to follow his words.

When I believe the gospel message, I'm drawn to God and his love for me and I seek to know him more and more and my love for him grows. Jesus taught us that the most important thing is for the Christian is to love God with all of our being. When I grasp the gospel message, my whole being wants to love God with my all.

The most well-known verse in the entire Bible can be easily overlooked because of its familiarity. But when we slow down and pay attention, we realize that John 3:16-17 is foundational to our faith and it's message is found all throughout Scripture. The gospel changes everything about our lives. It is because of the gospel that we do all that we do.

When Jesus is our Lord we receive from two things - a home in heaven and a mission on earth. Our mission is to tell others the good news of Jesus so they too can have a home in heaven one day.

Because Jesus was tempted in every way, yet did not sin and because he was the perfect, sinless sacrifice for our sins, he is able to help us in our temptations. Jesus was victorious over temptation and death and it is through our faith in him we have the same victory. Jesus is greater than our temptations, our sins, our problems, our drama, race, politics, fear, hate, evil and even death. Jesus i...

Each of us have a throne. It's called the heart. And each of us have a king who sits on the throne of our heart. It's either God or self. One of the two will rule us. Today's culture is completely absorbed with self love. We're told to love ourselves and put ourselves first and do what makes us happy. Self love leads to self destruction. Christians surrender their hearts to God and let him rule an...

We can relate to Peter. Jesus saw great faith in him. Peter did have strong faith in Jesus, but he also blew it when he was put to the test like never before and in the heat of the moment, he failed by denying he knew Jesus three times. Was that the end of Peter's story? No. We learn through Scripture that Peter may have missed the shot, but he got the rebound and got back in the game. You can too...

One of the greatest challenges Christians have is to get their private life and public life to be congruent. When they don't match up, we call that hypocrisy. We all struggle with it, but when Jesus is our Lord, that means we work to get our inside to match our outside.

What if your car was making a noise and you took it to a mechanic and he opened the hood, started the engine, hear the noise and then closed the hood and said, "Yep, something's wrong" and handed you a bill? You wouldn't be too happy about that. You want the mechanic to do something to fix your car. That's James' point about Christians. We're supposed to be doers of the Word, not just hearers.

In the days Jesus walked the earth, Jewish students would follow behind their rabbi so closely that their shoes would get covered with their rabbi's dust. The rabbi's students followed so closely because they were devoted to learn everything possible from their teacher. That's the way Christians are to learn from Jesus. To follow him so closely so as not to miss anything from him and to become jus...