Sermons

We’re not good when the “unexpected” comes crashing into our lives. We’re REALLY not good when TWO big unexpected boulders crash into our lives. God re-routes Hannah to the back roads of the Unexpected, circumstances you never imagined YOU’d ever have to go through. Along the way, Hannah found JOY she never expected to find,…

There is another one of God’s “backroads” to joy. It is the two roads of “Broken” and “Beloved. This is one of the deepest roads to joy AND one of the deepest joys. We don’t like the first backroad: “Broken.” We fight against feeling broken, and we resist this with every fiber of our fallen…

The phrase I hear the most from people who reject Christianity is the phrase, “Why does God let bad things happen?” There are a number of reasons, one of which is God’ discipline. We are going to be diving into the idea that a good father must discipline his children.

Last week we began a new series entitled “Re-routing to Joy.” This week we are looking at another way that God allows us to find unexpected joy. We will take a look at the backroad of unmet longings and how they can help you to discover true joy.

Finding joy is not as easy as it sounds. We often mistake happiness for joy, but joy is not dependent on pleasant circumstances. It can be found in the worst of suffering. It is not primarily a thing of feeling but of the gut, a deep conviction, an anchor of certainty, the deep awareness that…

Grumbling and complaining come so easily to us. In the moment it may seem so justified, and even feel like it “needed to be said.” In truth, grumbling and complaining slowly sap the life out of relationships, and slowly sap the life out of you. It is death by a thousand cuts. God is working…