What Happens When I Start to Doubt? | Christ For You

Text: Matthew 11:2–11 | Third Sunday in Advent (Gaudete)

What do you do when faith feels weak and God feels distant?

What happens when prayers go unanswered and nothing in your life seems to change? Does doubt mean something is wrong with your faith—or is something else happening?

From a prison cell, John the Baptist asks Jesus the unthinkable: “Are You the One, or should we look for another?” This sermon confronts the dangerous idea that real Christians never doubt and shows why even the strongest believers need to hear the Gospel again and again. Doubt is not cured by distance, memory, or willpower—it is answered by Christ’s Word.

When circumstances don’t change, Jesus doesn’t give explanations or fixes. He gives a promise. And that promise is enough.

If even John the Baptist needed Christ preached into his doubt, what does that say about you?

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What Changes When You Know the End? | Christ For You

Text: Luke 21:25–36 | Second Sunday in Advent

Why does Jesus tell you exactly how the world will end?

Why describe the heavens shaking, nations collapsing, and people fainting—only to tell His disciples, “Lift up your heads”?

This sermon presses into the mystery: knowing the end changes everything. When the world panics, believers look up. When creation collapses, Redemption arrives. The Judge who terrifies the nations is the same Savior who died for you.

If you have nothing to fear on the worst day in human history, what do you have to fear on any other day?

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Each class walks through what makes Lutheran doctrine distinct from other Christian denominations, following the chapters of the book The Lutheran Difference. Designed for youth in confirmation instruction, this series also welcomes anyone who wants a clear, biblical, and Confessional understanding of what Lutherans believe and why.

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The First Communion Class is a teaching series for children ages 7 and up, walking through the basics of the Christian faith using Luther’s Small Catechism. Each episode focuses on clear explanation, repetition, and memorization of God’s Word to help children understand and prepare to receive the Lord’s Supper with faith and reverence.

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What Evidence Do We Have For The Virgin Birth? | Christ For You

Text: Matthew 1:18–25 | Advent Midweek

How do you know the Virgin Birth actually happened?

Why should anyone believe the Incarnation is real?

This sermon turns to Joseph—the first man forced to confront that miracle. He knew Mary was pregnant. He knew he wasn’t the father. By every measure of human reason, he should have walked away. But he didn’t.

God shattered Joseph’s doubt with His Word, and Joseph’s costly obedience becomes powerful evidence that something supernatural happened. His decision is not sentimental. It is historical testimony. It tells you that the Child in Mary’s womb is God in the flesh, born for your salvation.

In this message, you’ll hear why Joseph’s obedience strengthens your confidence in the Creed and why the miracle you confess every Sunday is the foundation of the Gospel itself. Christmas is not a story. It’s history. It’s for you.

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Won’t Heaven Be Boring? | Christ For You

Text: Isaiah 65 | The Last Sunday of the Church Year & Baptism of Shawnee Sinex

Is Heaven actually going to be…boring?

What if a world without sin sounds dull to you?

What if the life to come feels less real than this one?

Most Christians have asked these questions silently, even if they’ve never said them aloud. This sermon confronts that fear head-on and exposes the hidden lie beneath it: that sin is what makes life interesting, meaningful, or worth living. Isaiah 65 tears that lie apart and reveals the world God is actually preparing—a world so beautiful, so alive, so overflowing with joy that we can’t even imagine it.

In this message, you’ll see how sin numbs the heart, how Christ restores it, and how Baptism gives you the very future God promises. You’ll hear why the most meaningful moments of your life were never born of sin, but glimpses of the new creation Jesus died to give you. And you’ll learn why, on the Last Day, you will never ask, “Is eternal life boring?”

You will say, “This is the life I was made for.”

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