Liturgical Season
47 sermons in the archive.
You'll see how two healings in Matthew 8 unlock the whole logic of the Bible: God never scrapped his laws or his promises, but instead sent Jesus to fulfill them by changing the people who could never keep them on their own.
You'll hear why God brought his people home from exile not because they deserved it but because he still had a plan for them, and what that pattern means for how you live in a world that isn't quite your true home.
You'll see how the long, messy history of failed human kings in the Old Testament wasn't a detour in God's plan but the very thing that makes the promise of a different kind of king, one who won't crush the weakest reed, so striking and so specific.
You'll see why Genesis 15 is one of the most pivotal chapters in the entire Bible, and how God's ancient covenant with Abraham points directly to why faith, not performance, is what makes a relationship with God possible.
You'll hear why the most overlooked detail in the Fall story is God calling out 'Where are you?' and what that search reveals about the kind of relationship God wanted then and still wants now.
You'll come away understanding why the Bible's first five verses are not just background to the real story but are the foundation for why God bothers to rescue humanity at all. If you've ever wondered whether your existence has any weight behind it, this sermon traces that question back to its source.
You'll hear why the disciples on the Emmaus road missed the resurrection even though Jesus had predicted it three times, and what it looks like to stop seeking a Messiah who trades in worldly power.
You'll hear how God was already at work in Lydia's life before Paul said a word to her, and what that means for the conversations you're avoiding because you don't feel ready to have them.
You'll hear how God dismantled a deep cultural barrier in the early church by declaring certain foods clean, and what that means for the traditions you hold that might be keeping others at arm's length.
You'll hear how Saul's violent certainty was stopped cold on a road to Damascus, and what that kind of sudden, unwanted transformation might mean for the places in your own life where you're still standing on the wrong rug.
You'll hear what baptism actually does beyond the water and the ceremony, and why Paul's claim in Romans 6 that you died and rose with Christ is meant to reorient your whole life, not just mark a milestone.
You'll hear how every group, including the church, uses secret passwords to sort insiders from outsiders, and what it looks like to be a community that refuses to make people pass a loyalty test before they're welcome.
You'll hear why the resurrection isn't just a past event to celebrate once a year, but the opening move in the ongoing defeat of death, and what that means for the grief, fear, and unanswered questions you're carrying right now.
You'll come away with a clearer picture of what it actually means to live as a Christian in a world that doesn't share your values: not by retreating from it, not by fighting it, but by loving it the way God does, at real cost to yourself.
You'll hear why genuine worship isn't repetition but response, and how paying attention to what God is doing right now in your life can become the raw material for a song only you can sing.
You'll hear how a psalm that begins with the cry of abandonment ends with a vision of every nation on earth finding their way back to God, and what that arc means for how you live and who you consider worth caring about.
You'll hear how Psalm 23's six familiar verses carry a hidden argument: that following God is less about having life figured out and more about trusting a shepherd who already knows the path, including the dark valleys and the enemies on either side.
You'll hear how an ancient psalm about enemies and sleeplessness points toward the same move Jesus and Peter both made: offering blessing instead of judgment, and how that practice might actually give you rest tonight.
You'll hear how two grieving followers failed to recognize the person walking right beside them, and what their blindness reveals about the ways Jesus quietly seeks people out before they think to look for him.
You'll hear a direct case for why the physical resurrection of Jesus is the load-bearing wall of Christian faith, and what it means that the same power behind that event is available for the dead places in your own life right now.
You'll come away with a clearer picture of what faith actually is: not a feeling you have to force, but a growing conviction that God keeps his word, even when you don't keep yours.
You'll discover how one untranslated Greek word connects the Ark of the Covenant to Jesus, and why that connection changes what it means to say God forgives you.
You'll hear why knowing the rules and even preaching them to others can leave you further from God than you think, and what Paul says actually matters instead.
You'll come away understanding why the Bible's talk of God's wrath isn't a contradiction of God's love, and what it means that Paul says God sometimes simply lets people have what they insist on.
You'll hear why two words, 'righteousness of God' versus 'righteousness from God,' split the church five centuries ago and still shape how you understand whether faith is something you earn or something that comes to you. You'll also sit with the honest question of why genuinely good news is so easy to reject when accepting it means giving up the identity you've built.
You'll see how Thomas — far from being a failure of faith — models exactly what it looks like to bring your hardest questions to Jesus and find him already waiting there to meet you.
You'll hear a fresh look at Pentecost that asks whether your faith was your own decision or something the Spirit was quietly building in you all along, through the people and moments that shaped your life.
You'll see why Jesus raised people from the dead not as a demonstration of raw power, but out of gut-level compassion and a concern for justice, and how those smaller resurrections point toward the one that actually defeats death for good.
You'll hear how one man's liberation from a legion of demons is a picture of what Christ does for every person trapped in brokenness, and Victoria Gilmore makes that concrete by describing her own years of being overwhelmed by bipolar disorder until scripture became the only thing that brought silence to the chaos.
You'll see how a Roman soldier's trust in Jesus upends assumptions about who belongs to God, and what it means that Jesus was amazed by an outsider's faith when he found so little of it among insiders.
You'll see how a single miraculous meal points past itself to something Jesus calls the true bread from heaven, and what it means that he identifies that bread as himself.
You'll hear why a first-century Pharisee's pragmatic advice to 'wait and see' is actually a word of freedom for anyone who feels the weight of trying to make the gospel succeed on their own.
You'll hear why the women at the tomb came expecting a corpse, and what it means for you when darkness makes it hard to remember the promises you've already been given.
You'll hear why the church has always contained both genuine faith and hidden betrayal, and what that means for how you handle broken, boundary-pushing people in your own community.
You'll come away with a sharper picture of what Jesus actually meant by friendship, why his definition was radical in its own time, and what it might cost you to live it out now.
You'll see how a single conversation on a desert road carried the gospel hundreds of miles without anyone having to travel there, and why the people already in your neighborhood might be that same kind of opportunity.
You'll hear why being part of Jesus's flock isn't passive, and how to tell the difference between a true call and an attack dressed up as one, whether from outside pressure or familiar voices you've long trusted.
You'll hear why Jesus keeps showing up unexpectedly and then disappearing, and what that rhythm of presence and absence is meant to produce in you.
You'll see what the early church actually looked like in the weeks after Easter, and what it means to let go of self-interest so that everyone in the community has enough.
You'll hear why the resurrection is more than a historical claim, and how the reality of it can hold you steady when a diagnosis, a loss, or your own mortality makes the future feel terrifying.
You'll hear how Jesus' final words before leaving earth were actually an offer of second chances to the world, and what it looks like when the Holy Spirit does the talking through you instead of you scrambling to find the right words.
You'll see how Paul, exhausted and culturally disoriented in Athens, found a way into genuine conversation with people whose beliefs were nothing like his own, and what that approach might look like for you when faith-sharing feels awkward or unwelcome.
You'll hear why Jesus told his closest friends not to be afraid on the worst night of their lives, and how that same promise speaks directly to whatever is keeping you anxious or grieving right now.
You'll hear how Luke, an outsider who never met Jesus, became one of the most important voices in the New Testament, and what his method of careful, honest investigation means for how Christians should engage the world today.
You'll hear why Saul's violent hatred of early Christians wasn't simple cruelty but a desperate defense of his identity, and what his transformation suggests about how any of us resist, and eventually yield to, change we can't stop.
You'll hear why the disciples on the road to Emmaus couldn't see Jesus even while walking beside him, and what it looks like when recognition finally breaks through the confusion in your own life.
You'll hear how a single word cut through Mary Magdalene's grief and confusion on the first Easter morning, and what it means that Jesus calls each person by name rather than through argument or explanation.