Sermons

God called Abraham to leave without telling him where he was going is, personally, that would be a problem for me. No map. No itinerary. No destination. Just: go. I’ll show you when you get there. This message is the first in a series on the life of Abraham — the man the New Testament…

Priscilla is what faithfulness looks like when nobody is watching. She didn’t build a platform. She built a life. And her life became the ministry. This message closes out our series “Women of the Bible” and it’s for anyone who has been wondering whether the ordinary season they’re in counts for anything. It does.

God’s strategic ways to redeem fallen humanity from Satan’s rule is patently unintuitive to us. The cross??? The church??? You mean to tell me these are the central components to saving a rebellious human race? How?

Most of us don’t struggle with laziness. We are busy, productive, optimized and somewhere in all of that activity, the most important relationship we have quietly grows thin. We keep doing things for God while spending less and less time with him. And we don’t notice the switch has happened until something breaks. That’s Martha’s…

We are good about protecting ourselves from a “no” that we don’t want to hear. The Canaanite women begged Jesus for help, and didn’t just settle for His first answer. She stayed engaged until her faith won his favor.

Elizabeth’s story is for anyone who has been carrying a prayer that keeps coming back unanswered. Anyone who has started, quietly, to believe that the silence means something, about their worth, their standing, whether God has moved for other people but not for them. She waited longer than most of us would, and what she…