A sermon on 1 Peter 2:21-25, on Christ suffering for us and leaving an example to follow, healed by his wounds, and how believers living under God's reign should not be surprised by suffering since suffering does not mean they are doing something wrong.
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An introduction to a series on the letters of John (1, 2, and 3 John), noting these short, less-studied epistles and how the aged apostle John repeatedly returns to the simple, deep command to love one another.
Listen & readAn Easter Sunday sermon on the resurrection account in Luke 24, imagining the women coming to Jesus' tomb with burial spices early in the morning and finding it empty, and reflecting on what the resurrection means for us.
Listen & readA Good Friday message on Psalm 22 and Matthew 27, contrasting the faithlessness of Judas, Pilate, and the crowd, who grasped for control, with Jesus' humble faithfulness as he trusted God even in death on the cross.
Listen & readA Palm Sunday message walking through Matthew 26, from the woman anointing Jesus with costly perfume through the Last Supper and Gethsemane, presenting faith as believing more is going on than reason and logic can see.
Listen & readA message on Hebrews 9, explaining the Old Testament tabernacle and sacrificial system and how Christ, as high priest offering his own blood, secures eternal forgiveness that liberates believers to live as they were intended.
Listen & readA message on John 6's feeding of the five thousand, paired with the manna of Exodus 16, urging listeners to trust that God knows something we do not and to bet on his way at the forks in life.
Listen & readA Lenten message linking the "finger of God" in the Exodus 8 plagues with Luke 11's casting out of a demon, showing that the God who rescued enslaved Israel will go to any length to rescue people who recognize their need.
Listen & readA Lenten message on Matthew 15 and the Canaanite woman whose persistent, non-performative, need-based faith Jesus calls great, urging listeners to approach God honestly from a place of brokenness and need.
Listen & readA Lenten message on 2 Corinthians 5-6, where Paul, working with God in the ministry of reconciliation, urges believers not to receive God's grace in vain but to let the gospel reorder their whole lives, even through hardship.
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