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Why is talking about money so awkward, painful, or bring up feelings of shame? Can you really love God and love money? What can you do to trust God more with your finances? 

SERIES: Sermon on the Mount

TITLE: Christ in Possession

SCRIPTURE: Matthew 6:19-34

PREACHING: Jonathan Montejano, Associate Pastor

SERIES: Sermon on the Mount

TITLE: Practicing Righteousness

SCRIPTURE: Matthew 6:1-18

PREACHING: Brandon Goad, Lead Pastor

There is a difference between performing for human applause and living before God. Jesus warns against practicing righteousness to be seen by others, and then teaches us a prayer (The Lord’s Prayer) as a model of how to faithfully and humbly practice righteousness.

SERIES: Sermon on the Mount

TITLE: Love Your Enemies (Seriously?)

SCRIPTURE: Matthew 5:43-48

PREACHING: Matt Knapp, Associate Pastor

Matthew 5:43-48 might be the hardest command in the Sermon on the Mount, "love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you," What does that look like in an election season, in our families, and at the communion table.

Sermon Series: The Sermon on the Mount

Sermon Title: Keep Your Hands to Yourself

Preaching: Pastor Brandon Goad

Text: Matthew 5:38-42

Description: 

Jesus calls for us to break the cycle of mutual destruction by calling us to an active, costly pursuit of restoration that absorbs hostility rather than returning it. Relinquishing our right to get even frees us to embody the disarming, reconciling love of Christ in a culture obsessed with payback.

Sermon Series: Sermon on the Mount

Sermon Title: Keeping the Covenants that Keep Us

Sermon Text: Matthew 5:33-37

Preaching: Angela Rajnus, Discipleship Coordinator

Description:

We often measure integrity by our biggest decisions—the contracts we sign, the crises we endure, or the moral lines we refuse to cross. But in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus reveals that integrity can be won or lost in words you say and the promises you make.

SERIES: Sermon on the Mount

TITLE: What About Lust?

SCRIPTURE: Matthew 5:27–32

PREACHING: Brandon Goad, Lead Pastor

Jesus moves past outward compliance to address the hidden intentions of the soul. While religious tradition treated adultery and divorce as mere legal boundaries to manage, Jesus recalibrates the standard back to God’s original, holy intent. This message calls believers to examine their inner desires, take decisive action against temptation, and cherish the covenant of marriage.

Sermon series: Sermon on the Mount

Title: The Anatomy of Anger

Text: Matthew 5:21-26

Description: Destructive actions on the surface of our lives are actually symptoms of untreated anger and contempt bubbling up from within our hearts. Jesus' radical cure for stepping out of resentment is reconciliation.

Question for the countdown in the first service: What would it take for you to turn your feelings of malice towards someone into genuine feelings of goodwill? 

SERIES: Sermon on the Mount

TITLE: What does it mean to be in God's family?

SCRIPTURE: 5:13–20

PREACHING: Brandon Goad, Lead Pastor

In Matthew 5:13–20, Jesus begins the Sermon on the Mount by teaching his followers what it means to live as members of God’s family. Because our adoption precedes our instruction, we are called to bear the family resemblance, embrace the story of God’s faithful work, and learn to represent our Father by following his Son.

SERIES: Sermon on the Mount

TITLE: The Beatitudes

SCRIPTURE: Matthew 5:1-5:12

PREACHING: Jonathan Montejano, Associate Pastor

We live in a culture that measures a "blessed" life by our comfort, our bank accounts, and our success. But two thousand years ago, Jesus sat down on a hillside and introduced an upside-down kingdom that completely flipped our definition of the word.

Series: Dear Church

Title: Resurrection Life

Text: 1 Corinthians 15 & 16

Preacher: Lead Pastor, Brandon Goad

Description: Because Christ has conquered death and we will share in his resurrection, we can live resurrection life now. We leave behind the ways of life shaped by death and live steadfastly in Christ, serving others with confidence that our labor in the Lord is never in vain.