Flipside Christian Church

Pastor Karl wraps up Matthew 25 and opens Matthew 26 with one big idea: devotion to Jesus begins in the heart, but it never stays hidden there, because the heart always leaves evidence.

In the sheep and goats passage, Jesus isn't announcing how anyone earns salvation. He's revealing hearts that already exist, since a closed heart makes a closed hand and an open heart makes an open hand. From there, Pastor Karl draws the line between iniquity, the crookedness inside, and transgression, the outward action it produces. He then traces both in Matthew 26 through the religious leaders, Judas, and Mary, whose extravagant devotion in pouring out her costly perfume flowed from a heart Christ had made new. The message calls listeners to repent not just of behavior but of the iniquity underneath, and to receive the new heart only Jesus can give.

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In this episode of Kingdom Now, Pastor Karl walks through Matthew 25:1-30, where Jesus, days before the cross, tells his disciples how to live while they wait for his return. Karl opens with a personal story about the excitement of waiting on a renovation, and how it exposed how little joyful anticipation he had for Christ's return. Building on Jesus' warning in Matthew 24 that no one knows the day or the hour, he gives two reasons to live with joyful anticipation: it motivates holy living, and it recalibrates how we see our lives and the world around us. He then explores the Parable of the Ten Virgins, explaining the stages of a Jewish wedding and how they picture Christ's return, and teaching that it's possible to look ready without actually being ready. Next, through the Parable of the Talents, Karl offers five practical observations about stewardship before making the deeper point that the most precious thing entrusted to us is the gospel itself. He closes with a challenge to be ready rather than just look ready, starting with repentance and putting sin to death. 

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In this message, Pastor Karl concludes Matthew 24, wrapping up the second half of Flipside Church's 21st birthday series. Set on the Tuesday before the crucifixion, Jesus turns from predicting what's coming to teaching His disciples how to live until He returns — and the focus isn't prediction, it's readiness.

Pastor Karl unpacks the big idea: because we don't know when Jesus will return, disciples must live ready — staying faithful and vigilant in the work He's given us. Walking through Jesus's comparison to the days of Noah, he warns against letting "normal life become normalized" — drifting into comfort and complacency while missing the spiritual urgency of the moment. He then turns to the parable of the faithful servant, showing that faithfulness isn't about fame or big accomplishments — it's simply doing the job the Master has given you, consistently, whether or not He's watching.

The message closes with a challenge to live both repentant and expectant: sober about sin, but alert and ready for Christ's return at any moment.

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Flipside Church turns 21 — and Pastor Karl marks the milestone by diving into Matthew 24, Jesus's teaching on the end times.

Before opening chapter 24, Pastor Karl revisits the close of Matthew 23, where Jesus weeps over Jerusalem's rejection of Him — a rejection Paul later explains (Romans 11) as a partial hardening that will lift once the "fullness of the Gentiles" comes in through the global spread of the gospel. That truth anchors the church's 21-year mission of church planting, including upcoming work in Israel and Venezuela.

Turning to Matthew 24, Pastor Karl unpacks Jesus's prophecy about the destruction of the temple and the signs preceding His return — false messiahs, wars, famines, earthquakes, persecution, and the "abomination of desolation." He walks through the historical weight of Herod's temple (80 years to build, destroyed within a decade of completion) and connects Jesus's words to the seven seals of Revelation 6, showing how they map onto the same sequence of end-times events.

The big idea: as history moves toward Christ's return, His church must resist deception, endure persecution, and proclaim the gospel to every nation. Pastor Karl challenges Flipside not to confuse its campus with God's kingdom, but to keep its eyes fixed on the mission — reaching every nation with the gospel until Jesus returns.

Looking back on 21 years of church planting (750+ churches funded and planted since 2016), Pastor Karl calls the church forward with gratitude for the past and urgency for the future: "no reserve, no retreat, no regret."

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In this message from Matthew 23, Pastor Karl walks through one of the most confrontational moments in Jesus's earthly ministry — the day He turns to face the religious establishment head-on and calls out hypocrisy for what it is. The big idea: true discipleship begins with repentance in the heart and produces transformation in life.

Pastor Karl unpacks the meaning of the word "hypocrite" — from the Greek term for an actor behind a mask — and shows how it appears seven times in this one chapter alone, always on the lips of Jesus. He identifies three ways hypocrisy shows up in our lives: hypocrisy toward others (a standard for you, an exception for me), hypocrisy toward ourselves (a gap between what we claim and how we live), and hypocrisy toward God (redefining what He has clearly called right or wrong).

Walking through Jesus's series of "woes" against the scribes and Pharisees — their showy religious displays, their exploitation of the vulnerable, their obsession with minor rules while neglecting justice, mercy, and faithfulness — Pastor Karl brings each one home with practical, personal application. This is a challenging, convicting message, but one grounded in hope: hypocrisy isn't failure itself, it's failure without repentance. And no one who repents is ever turned away by God.

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This week in our verse-by-verse journey through Matthew, Pastor Karl unpacks Matthew 22 — a pivotal chapter set on the Tuesday before Jesus' crucifixion, where four different groups challenge his authority, only to be silenced one by one.

Pastor Karl opens with a look at how authority is viewed differently across generations, from the positional authority respected by Baby Boomers to the influencer-driven authority sought by Gen Z, and asks a pointed question: what — or who — do we actually let have authority in our lives?

From there, the message walks through Jesus' encounters with the Pharisees, Herodians, Sadducees, and religious lawyers, showing how Jesus asserts his authority over five key areas: how we enter the Kingdom (the Parable of the Wedding Feast), what we owe the Kingdom (the "render unto Caesar" exchange), what Scripture means (the resurrection debate), what matters most (the greatest commandment), and ultimately, who he is (the identity of the Messiah).

The big idea: Jesus alone has the authority to define the Kingdom, define truth, define obedience, and define our relationship with God. This isn't a Jesus who asks for a place in your life — it's a Jesus who claims authority over all of it.

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Pastor Karl continues the Kingdom Now series with a hard-hitting look at Matthew 21:18–46, where Jesus confronts religion without fruit. The big idea: because Jesus is King, genuine faith must produce the fruit of obedience.

Starting with Jesus cursing the barren fig tree — a symbol of Israel's outward religion with no inward fruit — Pastor Karl walks through the chronology of that Passion Week Tuesday, tracing Old Testament roots in Leviticus 26's blessings and curses. From there he unpacks the religious leaders' challenge to Jesus's authority, the Parable of the Two Sons (obedience over empty profession), and the Parable of the Wicked Tenants, where Jesus becomes the rejected cornerstone.

The application lands close to home: faith isn't the fruit — faith produces fruit. Are you relying on looking religious instead of living in repentance? A sobering call to let genuine faith show.

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 Matthew 21 opens with Jesus's Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem—his coronation as King. Pastor Karl unpacks why this moment was unlike any earthly coronation: a king who arrived not on a warhorse but on a humble donkey, fulfilling prophecies spoken generations earlier through Isaiah, Zechariah, and Daniel. As King, Jesus fulfills God's mission, exercises God's authority, restores proper worship according to God's Word, and extends God's compassion. From the crowds shouting "Hosanna" to Jesus clearing the temple of corruption, this passage reveals a King who demands total allegiance while never withholding compassion from those who come to Him in need.

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Pastor Karl continues the Kingdom Now series in Matthew 20, exploring what sets kingdom greatness apart from worldly greatness. As Jesus tells His disciples He is heading to Jerusalem to suffer, be mocked, and be crucified, James and John's mother asks for positions of honor for her sons — missing the point entirely. Jesus responds with a defining truth: true greatness in God's kingdom comes through serving others, not through status or position. The message then turns to two blind men on the roadside who cry out to Jesus despite the crowd's attempts to silence them, and Jesus stops to heal them. Pastor Karl unpacks what it means to pursue Christ with bold, public faith rather than settling for silent, private belief, and challenges the church to approach God's throne of grace with the same desperation and persistence.

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 In this message, Pastor Karl continues the "Kingdom Now" series with a study through Matthew 20, unpacking Jesus's Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard. Building on Peter's question at the end of Matthew 19 — "What do we get for the sacrifice we've given?" — Pastor Karl explores the difference between gifts and rewards in the Christian life. Salvation is a gift, received by grace through faith, while eternal rewards are tied to faithfulness, obedience, generosity, and perseverance in serving God's kingdom. Through the story of the vineyard workers who all receive the same wage regardless of when they started, Pastor Karl reveals that this parable isn't primarily about the workers — it's about the graciousness of the master. God's rewards are given by grace, not earned through work, but they are given to those who work. This message challenges listeners to live radically committed lives, storing up treasures in heaven rather than settling for a "safe soul and a wasted life."

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