Taking Charge | James Buntrock

In this message, James Buntrock, filling in for Pastor Greiner, teaches on taking charge of the authority God has given believers. He builds the case from Genesis, where dominion was first delegated to man, through the centurion's recognition of Jesus' authority, to the storm on the Sea of Galilee, using his own sailing background to illustrate how Jesus expected his disciples to handle the ship rather than wake him. He unpacks Psalm 8's picture of humanity crowned with glory and made a little lower than God himself, framing believers as reigning kings with delegated authority over their homes and families. He warns of the enemy's targeting of children and the covenant of marriage, shares a testimony of his daughter's car accident where peace and spoken faith carried the family through, and contrasts King Asa's fortified peacetime strength with David's recovery at Ziklag as two models of standing ready against attack.