This week, we begin our new series through the Lord’s Prayer which contains the very heart of the gospel from the beginning to the end. When we approach God as Father, our prayer life is necessarily shaped by God’s loving, faithful presence toward us, who stand beside his Son, our elder brother Jesus. To pray to our Father may be easy to speak and yet is a reality that takes a lifetime of growing in Christ by the Holy Spirit to grasp deeper in our hearts.

When the gospel gets twisted, the church is in trouble. In Acts 15:1-35, we’ll consider an error confronting the early church and how Scripture set things straight. This early gospel error has been on repeat throughout church history—adding works of the law to the finished work of Jesus in order to be saved. But Jesus said not even the gates of hell can stand against His church. Acts 15 provides clarity concerning the gospel and a model and principles for the church to confront such errors.

We’re all looking for rest and satisfaction; contentment. The problem is that this deep-rooted can’t be met by the things of this world and a society that bombards us with suggestions and demands of how to attain contentment. Psalm 16 reminds us in order to reorient us. There are paths that lead to folly and sorrow. King David’s beautiful poetic reflection on finding rest in our hearts offers tremendous hope for you and I who place our hearts in our Savior Jesus, the perfectly satisfied One.

What is gospel hope in “this present evil age,” as Paul described in Galatians 1:3-5? In the wake of the recent tragic events, we must allow the gospel to take us out of the grip of news and newsfeeds. This week we’ll consider three aspects of gospel hope centering around those incredible words: “Christ gave himself" speaking to man’s greatest problem of sin, the purpose of Christ’s sacrifice, and the Father’s plan to give grace to sinners through his Son.

James concludes with the message that the wise life is the praying life, casting prayer in the category of wisdom because to pray is to confront our own propensity to be self-reliant and independent of our need of God. Praying reminds us that we are...

Living in a culture where public and personal apologies are peppered with "if" and “but," what does it look like to have an honest confession before the Lord? David gives us a beautiful example of this in Psalm 32, where he reminds us that it...

Throughout the wisdom writings found throughout the Bible, one common theme is the necessity of understanding your surroundings. We saw last week how the rich laid up for themselves treasure in the last days. In this week’s passage, James teaches...

Throughout Scripture, money is presented as the most compelling rival to God because it offers power, control, identity, comfort, and pleasure in a way that really no other idol does. James, echoing his brother Jesus, insists that we need to ask the...

In this last sermon through our series in Daniel, we’ll look at Daniel 6 which shows Daniel facing persecution in a drama of political maneuvering, ending with Daniel in the lions’ den. His experience in the face of danger is a picture of what...

We live in a time that feels unsteady and uncertain with the ever-present chorus of bad news. And yet at the end of the day, this means that this is a crucial time to remember that Easter doesn’t represent a sentimental word of spiritual...