Sunday Morning Message

The Sanhedrin—Annas, Caiaphas, and the rest of the high-priestly family—put Peter and John in the center and demanded, “By what power or by what name did you do this?” After a night in jail for healing a lame man and preaching the resurrection, Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, did not soften the answer: it was by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom they crucified and whom God raised from...

Paul turns from greeting to thanksgiving: he thanks God through Jesus Christ for the Roman believers because their faith is proclaimed in all the world. He constantly remembers them in his prayers, asking that by God’s will he may at last succeed in coming to them—not as a celebrity apostle, but to impart some spiritual gift so they may be established, and that he and they may be mutually encourag...

This week marks the opening of a new sermon series on the Book of Romans. Paul opens Romans by identifying himself as a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God—the good news promised beforehand through the prophets in the Holy Scriptures. That gospel concerns God’s Son: according to the flesh He is the descendant of David; according to the Spirit of hol...

Pastor Mike closed the summer Psalms series with Psalm 26, David’s prayer of self-examination and integrity rather than a psalm tied to one crisis. David asks the Lord to vindicate and test his heart and mind because he has trusted without wavering; integrity, Spurgeon and J. C. Ryle remind us, is character carved on hearts, not a name only. That integrity is possible only in Christ (John Bunyan,...

Pastor Mike taught Psalm 25 as David’s model prayer that trains believers how to pray in every season. The psalm opens with whole-souled trust—“To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul”—echoed in Jesus’ Gethsemane submission and Proverbs 3:5–6; God alone knows the way and lights the path. It then moves to humble delight: the Lord leads the humble, His steadfast love never fails, and C. S. Lewis and Richa...

On a baptism Sunday Pastor Mike used the Pittsburgh Pirates jersey as an illustration that wearing the uniform does not make someone a team member; baptism is the public, irreversible “jersey” that declares a believer belongs to Jesus. He walked through Acts 8: Philip, redirected by the Spirit, explained Isaiah 53 to the God-fearing Ethiopian eunuch, who immediately asked to be immersed. Baptism,...

Pastor Mike continued the summer Psalms series with messianic Psalm 24, presenting David’s song as a pointer to Jesus the ultimate King of Glory rather than to David himself. He opened with God’s creative power—the earth and its fullness belong to Him, illustrated by the vast, still-unexplored oceans and a universe containing more stars than grains of sand—then asked who may ascend the Lord’s holy...

Elder Bill Carter walked through Psalm 22 as both David’s raw lament amid persecution (likely by Saul or Absalom) and a detailed messianic prophecy written a thousand years before the cross. He showed how David’s cry of abandonment, mockery, isolation, physical agony, pierced hands and feet, and the dividing of garments are fulfilled in Jesus’ crucifixion (Matthew 27, John 19–20), yet God delivere...

This week's message comes from Elder Mike Holland. In 1 Corinthians 3:10-15, Paul describes himself as a skilled master builder who laid the only true foundation—Jesus Christ—and warns that everyone who builds upon it must take care how they build. On the Day of judgment each person’s work will be tested by fire; lasting materials will bring reward, while inferior work will be burned up, thoug...

Daniel Hansen is this week's guest speaker. In Acts 1:6-14, the disciples ask the risen Jesus whether He will now restore the kingdom to Israel, and He replies that the timing is the Father’s alone; instead, they will receive power from the Holy Spirit and become His witnesses to the ends of the earth. After Jesus ascends into heaven, the disciples return to Jerusalem and join together in cons...

We wrap up VBS week, with our theme for the week and Psalm 23. It's beloved psalm of trust in which David portrays the Lord as a faithful shepherd who provides rest, guidance, protection, and abundant care for His people through every season of life. Even in the darkest valleys, God’s presence brings comfort and security, culminating in the confident hope of dwelling with Him forever.

Psalm 21 is a royal psalm of thanksgiving in which David praises God for granting the king’s heartfelt desires, bestowing long life, glory, and victory. It celebrates God’s strength and favor toward the anointed king while affirming that the Lord’s enemies will ultimately face judgment and defeat.

We begin our summer sermon series this week with Psalm 20, a short royal psalm that functions as a prayer for the king before going into battle. It’s a confident, corporate plea for divine help and victory.

In his recent guest message at Gwathmey Baptist Church, Dr. Mark Becton unpacked Ephesians 5:22-33 as God’s beautiful design for marriage. It portrays marriage as a profound picture of Christ’s sacrificial love for His church and the church’s respectful response. Wives are called to submit to their husbands as to the Lord, reflecting the church’s submission to Christ. Husbands are commanded to lov...

Ephesians 6:1-9 instructs Christian households on mutual respect and responsibility. Children should obey their parents in the Lord, while parents must not provoke their children but raise them in godly discipline. Servants are to obey their masters sincerely as serving Christ, and masters should treat servants justly, knowing both answer to the same heavenly Master.

Ephesians 6:14-23 describes the pieces of the armor of God and calls believers to prayer and steadfastness. Stand firm with the belt of truth, breastplate of righteousness, shoes of the gospel of peace, shield of faith (to extinguish fiery darts), helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit (the word of God). Pray continually in the Spirit, stay alert, and intercede for all the saints—especia...

Ephesians 6:10-13 urges believers to be strong in the Lord and put on the whole armor of God. The passage explains that our real battle is not against flesh and blood (people), but against spiritual forces of evil—rulers, authorities, cosmic powers, and dark spiritual forces. Therefore, we must take up God’s full armor so we can stand firm against the devil’s schemes and withstand in the evil day.

Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her—cleansing, nourishing, and cherishing her. Wives, respect your husbands. This profound mystery reveals that marriage is far more than a human union: it is a living picture of Christ’s sacrificial love for His bride, the Church. In these closing verses of our two-week series on Godly Marriage, Paul pulls everythin...

Wives are called to submit to their own husbands as to the Lord. The husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church (his body, of which he is the Savior). Therefore, just as the church submits to Christ, wives should submit to their husbands in everything. This is part one in the two-week message.

In Ephesians 5:15-21, Paul urges us to live wisely in evil days by making the most of every opportunity. Rather than being controlled by wine or the empty pleasures of this world, we’re commanded to be filled with the Spirit—speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in our hearts to the Lord, and giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the...

In Ephesians 5:1-14, Paul calls us to imitate God as dearly loved children and to live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us. He urges us to walk in the light—rejecting sexual immorality, impurity, greed, and coarse joking—because these things have no place among God’s holy people. Instead of partnering with the darkness, we’re to expose it, wake up from spiritual slee...

In Ephesians 4:17-32, Paul gets intensely practical about what the new life in Christ actually looks like day-to-day. He urges us to stop living like the surrounding culture—futile in thinking, darkened in understanding, and enslaved to sensual impurity—and instead to put off the old self completely. We’re called to be renewed in the spirit of our minds, speak truth, control our anger, work honest...

In Ephesians 4:13-24, Paul paints a powerful vision of what spiritual maturity looks like. He calls us to grow up into the full stature of Christ—united in faith, stable in truth, and no longer tossed around by every new teaching or trapped in the old patterns of this world. We’re invited to take off the old self, corrupted by deceitful desires, be renewed in the spirit of our minds, and put on th...

Christ descended to the depths and ascended on high, filling all things and giving gifts to His church—apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. These equip believers to serve, so the body of Christ grows into unity and maturity, reaching the full stature of Christ. No longer tossed by false teachings, we speak truth in love, growing up into Christ our Head. Joined and held together...

This week, Pastor Mike Cauthorne brought a powerful message from Ephesians 4:1-16. He challenged us to walk worthy of our calling—with humility, gentleness, patience, and love—eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Pastor Mike reminded us that Christ has gifted the church with leaders to equip the saints so the body can grow into maturity, becoming more like Jesus, our Hea...