[SERMON] You Good, Bro?

Send us Fan MailIn this Father's Day message, Pastor Ryan — a Marine combat veteran and new pastor at Heart o' the Lakes Church — delivers a raw and personal sermon on the difference between being good and looking good. Drawing from his own years of brokenness after returning from Iraq, he unpacks how people develop "rackets" — heart-level strategies to manage their image and avoid vulnerability — as a substitute for real transformation. Using Matthew 23:27-28 (the "whitewashed tombs" passage), Proverbs 4:23, and Matthew 12, he challenges the congregation to identify where they're spending their energy on appearances rather than authentic connection with God and others. He closes with a call to yield to God, embrace vulnerability with a safe, godly person, and trust that true peace lives on the other side of "looking bad."