Sermons

We do not pursue holiness to persuade God to claim us; we pursue it in response to His grace.

First Things First Luke 10:38-42 Separating the Urgent from the…

Many of us are waiting for our circumstances to change before we find peace, but God often changes us before He changes our situation. Psalm 3 ends not with answers, but with confidence. Not with certainty about tomorrow, but certainty about God. That’s the lesson of Selah. When the future feels uncertain, pause and remember that the God who started your story is still writing it.

Sometimes God delivers you from the storm, but sometimes God sustains you through it. Practice resting in God, not in circumstances. Peace does not come from perfect conditions. Peace comes from trusting a perfect Savior.

Psalm 3 is David’s journal entry from one of the darkest moments of his life—running barefoot from Jerusalem as his own son Absalom leads a coup against him. The psalm is raw, emotional, and brutally honest. Yet woven through the distress are three holy interruptions: Selah.

Ephesians 2:8-10

If God is sovereign, & if God is good, why does one of the most faithful men in all of Scripture die this way? Why is John’s story not a story of rescue & vindication? John gives us a kingdom perspective that refuses to measure God’s faithfulness by the length of our ministry, & insists that the world may silence God’s servants, but it cannot stop God’s kingdom.

When God’s ways confuse us, the answer isn’t to demand our way. It’s to look at what He is actually doing. He is always working, it may just be different than we think.

Real repentance, John insists, is ethical & relational—not merely emotional & ceremonial. The fruit tells the truth that the feeling often conceals.