Sunrise Church

Samson points us to Jesus who is a better judge in His perfect faithfulness and obedience to the Lord.

It can be tempting to run ahead without praising God for His past goodness, but when we consider God’s past provision and goodness, in both the good and the hard, we are better able to approach whatever comes in the future with incomprehensible joy and anchored peace.

The Creator of the sun has spoken and, in speaking, not on behalf of some other deity, but on His own authority, He has revealed Himself to His creation.

Living with the end in view means living now as citizens of the kingdom of God and subjecting our priorities, our concerns and our desires to God’s will.

In a world of identity politics, self-proclaimed identity markers and a social order that feels out of order, Jesus defines you in the truest sense in the context of His church/people.

Our singleness can be a gift in that it allows us to serve God with the fullness of ourselves. However, marriage is a gift in which we model the triune intimacy of God. Therein, we bring glory to God by mirroring Jesus’ relationship with his church and the raising of children to the glory of God. As such, Christians are to remain married as much as lies within them, but are not faulted if an unbel...

Often the source of our grievances is the sin we undertake against one another and how the church handles those grievances says much about our confidence in the gospel.

Is Jesus Christ the master of all of your life and do you serve Him with your whole self (body and mind) in order that God may be glorified in your life?

Sin should be challenged in the church, not for the satisfaction of the preferences of another’s conscience, but for the health and safety of the one at risk of going astray.

The cross shaped leader humbly serves and loves others in service to Jesus Christ.

As the church, we reject what the world sees and values in exchange for God’s work and God’s wisdom. This grounds our hope, not in men’s vision, but in God’s for His church.

Informational knowledge is a short cut to perceived spiritual maturity. Theological text books and doctrinal learning are tools for examining the beauty and wonder of God, but can be misused to load our vocabulary with talking points and rhetorical arguments while knowing nothing of the God of the theology.

The kingdom of God is foolish in that it humbles the wise, shames the strong and values the low and despised. No rhetorical flare can accomplish this; only in Christ Jesus can we be made righteous, sanctified and redeemed. No one towers above this…no one.

Members of Christ’s church, been rescued, not by earthly leaders and teachers, but by the substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus on the cross whereon He drank the cup of God’s wrath against the sin of His people. This is the foundation of our unity.

Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians reminds us that church can be messy and there’s always time and space for course correction as long as we maintain the right things.

For all of the threats the church has faced, this threat of confusion around the Gospel cannot merely be endured, but must be addressed.

The full force of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is brought to bear in order that the prodigals and the lost sheep and the seemingly unredeemables might be gathered from every corner of the earth into His church.

Jesus resisted the temptations of the Devil in the power of the Sprit and with the Word of God, so he could fulfill the plan of God for his life and receive the promise of the Father.

God's sovereignty encompases every facet of His creation. This should bring hope to believers and a sense of urgency to share the hope of the gospel of Christ with those who are far from Him.

As the gospel comes to Antioch and a church is born, we see that the church has always been God’s plan for nations as a hub for the gospel and the place from which we are sustained in our faithfulness and called to serve.

For all of his religious faithfulness, Cornelius still needed to recognize that Jesus will judge all people, not according to their religious adherence, but by their trust in him for salvation.

In Christ we are called to be living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God in reasonable service to Him.

God’s plan for the spread of the gospel is not by worldly means, but by the simple proclamation of the gospel and the effectual work of the Spirit.