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 resurrection inaugurates new creation, and the Church now lives as the King’s signet ring, bearing resurrection life into a world still fighting the old regime.

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 enough to heal the deepest fracture we face. That problem requires something beyond our faithful action—it requires God’s gracious intervention.

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 Solomon’s.

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.

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 every conversion, baptism, and quiet act of faith becomes another nativity scene unfolding in the world.

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 brings forth light.

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 flesh, but by the power of the Spirit.

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 kingdom through ordinary believers.

Acts ends abruptly because the mission it describes has not ended; it continues in us, the living temples through whom the glory of God is filling the earth.

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 “founded the earth upon the floods” (Psalm 24) is still turning chaos into creation—and He does it now through His people. Jesus is still calming storms; He’s just doing it through us.

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.