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Faith Beyond Your Framework
Job’s friends are so committed to their understanding of God that they refuse to reconsider it, even when confronted with evidence that challenges their conclusions. Job, however, allows his suffering and his observations of the world to expose the inadequacy of his theology. He doesn’t abandon…
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God Wrestlers
Some of Job’s speeches to his friends are actually speeches he’s making to God. Job is picking a fight with God, calling Him to the mat, and approaching Him boldly. Though we may bristle at hearing Job pick a fight with God, we should admire the fact that he is as open to being body slammed by…
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Little Satans and Big Manipulations
This sermon canvases Job’s argument with his friends and shows that there is more going on here than clumsily offered counsel. Job’s friends are little satans furthering the accusations made against Job by Satan at the beginning of the book.
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Good, evil, and God.
Job is a good man. The Bible’s description of him as “blameless and upright” prevents us from explaining his suffering as punishment for wrongdoing. Unbeknownst to him, Job’s faithfulness serves purposes larger than his own life, as he serves as God’s star witness in a heavenly court case wherein...
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Wisdom 201
The book of Job is God’s Wisdom 201 course. Job is an example of the faithful and wise son that the book of Proverbs aims to produce. But Job’s mastery of proverbial wisdom didn’t mean that there was nothing else to learn. It meant that God enrolled him in the 200 level course, where he would...
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Baby Believers
It is typically assumed that infant baptisms are not believer’s baptisms. That assumption is based on the assumption that babies are not believers. Psalm 22, Psalm 71, Psalm 8, and Luke 1 (to name a few) contradict that assumption. Babies can believe and that means that at least some infant...
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What Baptism Does and Does Not Do
In 1 Corinthians 10:1-6 Paul helps us understand that membership in God’s covenant people does not guarantee final salvation.
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Baptism and the Old Testament
When the New Testament authors seek to shape our understanding of baptism, they shape it around the stories, patterns, and redemptive events of the Old Testament in a way that sheds a great deal of light on the meaning and administration of baptism. If baptism corresponds to Noah’s family being...
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Baptism and the Great Commission
Matthew 28 teaches us that belonging precedes maturity. Baptism is God’s way of welcoming people into His family. He places His name on us, ensuring that we belong, and then that belonging shapes us into mature disciples over time. God doesn’t make us pass a doctrinal examination before He claims...
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Psalm 150-Everything Ends in Praise
Psalm 150 is a snapshot of the end of history inviting us into the future of heavenly praise that will one day fill up the whole earth.
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Psalm 122-Jesus Our Jerusalem
Psalm 122 shows us a people gladly ordering their lives around worship as they travel to Jerusalem—the city where God dwells, His people gather, and His King rules. This sermon considers what Jerusalem teaches us about worship, work, culture, and the Church, and how the blessings once found in…
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Psalm 116-Thanksgiving As Action
Psalm 116 teaches us to respond to God’s tangible acts of deliverance with tangible acts of thanksgiving. In Israel, thanksgiving wasn’t just an inward feeling, it could become a public event involving sacrifice, food, celebration, and a gathering of God’s people. God gives us practices of...
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Psalm 131–Trust
Psalm 131 is a prayer that helps us remember that we can trust God to grow us up and make us more like Him in every circumstance.
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Psalm 58–When Evil Seems to Win
Psalm 58 reminds us that there are times when evil grows so large that we have no lawful power to stop it ourselves. Rather than encouraging personal vengeance or vigilanteism, God gives His people prayers that entrust justice to Him.
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Psalm 51-Confession and Cleansing
David’s psalm of confession reminds us that no matter how great our sin, God’s love is greater.
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Psalm 13–Questioning the Almighty
In Psalm 13 David asks God some candid questions that, without context may seem disrespectful or entitled—they aren’t. David’s prayers are responses to and reminders of God’s promises. David isn’t making demands, he is reminding God of His own plans and asking Him to bring them to fruition. This...
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Psalm 19–Listen to God; Learn to Talk
Psalm 19 helps us reflect on how and why God speaks. It turns out that He speaks to us in order to teach us how to talk back to Him.
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Psalm 2–Following God’s King
Psalm 2 together with Psalm 1 functions as an introduction to the Psalter. Before teaching God’s people to pray, Psalm 2 reminds us who we are. We are God’s people, walking God’s path, following behind God’s King.
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Psalm 1–Walking God’s Good Path
Before teaching us how to pray, the book of Psalms poses a question: what path are you on and where does it lead? Psalm 1 compares God’s path to man’s and invites us to take the path that leads to life.
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God’s Visible Word
This sermon seeks to set Baptism and The Lord’s Supper into their broader biblical context to help us identify them as one of the ways that God delivers His Word to His people. It is an exercise in biblical theology and theological reasoning intended to deepen our experience of church life and...
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What Happens When We Worship
What is actually happening when the Church gathers for worship? In this sermon from Hebrews 12, we trace the Bible’s recurring mountain imagery from Eden to Sinai to Zion and ultimately to Christ in order to show that worship is far more than education or inspiration—it is the gathered Church...
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It’s The Little Things
Paul began the letter to the Ephesians with abstract theology as he spoke to us about powers, principalities, heavenly places, divine fullness, mysteries, and new creation. But he ends the letter with normal people doing normal things in order to show us that the cosmic mission of God cashes out…
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Suit Up—Standing Against Sin and Satan
In Ephesians 6:10–17 Paul teaches us that spiritual warfare is usually not sensational, but conventional—the daily battle to maintain a heavenly perspective in the midst of earthly troubles, trials, and annoyances. God does not leave His people defenseless in this battle, but strengthens us…
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How to make your Household Hum
In Ephesians 6:1-9 (and 5:22-33) Paul teaches us how to make our households hum the happy working song of the New Creation as authority and servanthood are reimagined and reshaped by Christ.
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Walking Together as Husband and Wife
In Ephesians 5:22-33 Paul shows us that marriage is more than a social arrangement—even more than “the building block of society.” Marriage is a living picture of the Gospel. In these verses Paul paints a beautiful picture of Jesus’ love for church and he makes it the paradigm for understanding...
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Motherhood—Life for the World
In this sermon we explored a biblical theology of womanhood and motherhood through the lenses of sacred architecture, life, and new creation. Eve is not merely “made,” but “built” from Adam’s “side,” using language that echoes the construction of the tabernacle and temple. Woman is presented as...
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Waking up the World
In Ephesians 5:1–21, Paul shows us that the Christian life is not just about personal transformation—it’s about the renewal of the world. As those who were once darkness but are now light in the Lord, our lives expose what is broken not by fixating on it, but by embodying something better. This...
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Living as God’s house
Paul shows us how to walk the road out of exile, teaching us the practices and habits that will shape us into the kind of people who belong where God is taking us. Our exile from the life of God (Eph. 4:18) conditioned us to fill ourselves up illicitly and fleetingly with carnal pleasures, but…
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Unity and Maturity
Christ leads us out of exile and forms us into a unified, mature people who are learning to live like we belong in the home he’s bringing us to.
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All Praise No Pressure
In Ephesians 3:14–21, Paul is driven to his knees in prayer under the weight of the cosmic calling God has placed on the church (3:10). But in prayer that weight is lifted, as the love of Christ and the power of God are revealed as the guarantee of the mission’s success.
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Replanting Eden
On Easter morning, the story of Scripture begins again. In John’s Gospel, Jesus rises where humanity first fell, turning the site of ruin into the birthplace of renewal.
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God’s Secret plan of Salvation Seen in His Saints
In Ephesians 3:1–13 Paul says that the mystery that’s been hidden for ages is being revealed in the church—that mystery is the coming together of all peoples in Christ. It’s unification without coercion—conquest by compassion. The Church is made up of Jew, Gentile, slave, free, man, woman, rich,...
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Salvation through Sacrifice
In Ephesians 2, Paul shows how Christ fulfills Israel’s sacrificial system—removing our sin, paying our debt, raising us into new life, and bringing us into peace with God and one another. What once happened through sacrifices in the temple is now accomplished in Christ and applied to His people,...
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Filled Up to Fill Up
Paul prays that the church would see what is already true: Jesus is reigning, resurrection power is already at work, and the church is the instrument through which Christ will fill the world. Because these truths are so surprising, God must open the eyes of our hearts to believe them.
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An Explosion of Praise for a New Exodus
Ephesians 1:3-14, a dense, 202 word sentence in Greek, is a majestic explosion of worship as Paul announces that a rescue of even greater importance than The Exodus has taken place through Jesus and is working itself out among His people.
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Saints and Sanctuaries
Ephesians 1:1-2 is a beautiful reminder of a simple, but profound truth: God loves you and He wants you with Him. This sermon explores the shape of that love and shows us how to remain rooted in it.
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Previewing The New Creation
In this opening message on Ephesians, we explore Paul’s sweeping announcement that the New Creation has already begun. The King has been crowned. Heaven and earth are being reunited. A new humanity has been formed. And through the church, God is displaying His wisdom to the world. God is making…
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Reversing the Curse
In Haggai 2:20–23, God promises to reverse a curse His people could never undo. The Davidic “signet ring” once torn away in judgment is restored, pointing beyond Zerubbabel to Christ. In Jesus, the logic of the old world is overturned: death no longer spreads uncontested—life does. The…
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When Obedience Isn’t Enough
This sermon names the limits of our obedience—clarifying what it can and cannot accomplish. Haggai 2:15–19 shows how much obedience matters in practical ways and how dramatically responding to God can change our lives. But verses 11–14 make it clear that obedience, while powerful, is not powerful...
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Greater than the Good Old Days
In Haggai 2, God meets a discouraged people longing for the glories of the past and reorients their hope toward the future. This sermon explores how God moves His people from nostalgia to new hope and calls the Church to participate in the building of an even more glorious temple and kingdom than...
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When Deliverance Brings Discouragement
This sermon brings us into God’s halftime pep talk as He encourages and recommissions His people to get them back in the game after a season of failure.
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The Nativity Continues
Christmas doesn’t conclude the story—it starts it. This sermon from John 1 shows how Jesus’ birth launches God’s work of new creation in the world. The Spirit who overshadowed Mary now fills the Church, bringing new life wherever Christ is received. Christmas is a kickoff, not a capstone—and…
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Introducing Bethlehem
Before Bethlehem is a manger, it is a grave. This sermon traces Rachel’s sorrow from Genesis through Jeremiah and into Matthew, showing how God brings redemption through loss rather than around it. The good news of Christmas is not that God spares us from darkness, but that He meets us there and...
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Delivery Delays—God’s Working in the Waiting
In Genesis 15–21, Abraham and Sarah show us what happens when God’s promise meets a long season of waiting. God delays not because He has deviated from the plan, but because He is teaching His people that His promises are received, not produced—and that salvation will come not by the power of the...
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Shaking off the Serpent
In Acts 28, Luke shows that the story of Jesus continues—unhindered—through His Spirit-filled people. Paul’s protection from the serpent, his healing ministry on Malta, and his bold proclamation in chains all declare that the risen Christ still rules, still restores, and still advances His…
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Temple in a Tempest
In Acts 27, Paul’s ship is overtaken by a violent storm. While everyone else panics, Paul becomes an anchor of calm—steady, faithful, and full of hope. Luke isn’t just telling a sea story; he’s showing us what it looks like when the living temple of God meets the storms of the world. The God who...
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Resurrection in Real Time (Acts 23&24)
In Acts 23 Paul declares that he is on trial for the hope of the resurrection. What was so offensive and explosive about Paul’s resurrection doctrine and what does it mean for us today? Answering those questions is the goal of this sermon.
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Fizzled Plans and Faithfulness
Paul finally makes it to Jerusalem—the narrative has been building to this moment—only to leave us with a massive anticlimax. Paul isn’t killed and no one gets converted—there’s no triumph and no tragedy—just tension. Often our lives look the same, and Paul provides a model of faithfulness in…
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Wrong the Right Way
God isn’t nearly as averse to errors as we are. Our modern obsession with precision and accuracy has made us spiritually risk-averse, hesitant to act when we sense the Spirit’s leading. This sermon on Acts 21:1–6 confronts that tendency and calls us back to the faithful courage of those who got…
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Trials, Tears, and True Life
Paul’s farewell to the Ephesian elders (Acts 20:17–38) is more than a set of instructions; it is the heart of a pastor laid bare. His trials and tears illustrate God’s own suffering love for the world, and his words remind us that weakness and struggle in our own lives don’t discredit the...
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