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Did you know that the word “Christian” only appears three times in the entire Bible? It emerged in the early days of the church as a derogatory label for those who followed Jesus. But when Jesus and the New Testament authors spoke about those who chose to follow him, they used the same word over 250 times: disciple. And as it turns out, being a disciple is a far more demanding calling.

In this sermon, we explore what it really means to be a disciple of Jesus and why it challenges so many of the ways we naturally live. We wrestle with the question: if following Jesus is more than a label, what does your life look like when you actually do it?

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Guardrails aren’t placed in the middle of danger. They are strategically positioned to stop you before you get there—along sharp curves, at the edge of steep drop-offs, and in the places where one wrong move could change everything. We put guardrails where the risk is high and the cost of ignoring them is even higher.

In this series, we’ve been exploring the boundaries God gives to protect us from harm and guide us toward the life He designed. In this final message, we ask, “Where do you need guardrails in your life before it’s too late?” Most of us only start looking for boundaries after we’ve already hit something, but what if you could see the danger ahead and avoid it altogether? This conversation could spare you years of regret and help you preserve what matters most.

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What if the way you spend your time is quietly steering your life in a direction you never intended? In a world that glorifies busyness, it’s easy to believe the false gospel that hurry equals a full life, productivity equals worth, and rest equals laziness. But this relentless pace leaves us anxious, exhausted, and distracted. So how do we trade a life of hurrying for the life God designed?

In this sermon, we’ll explore the guardrails we need to avoid danger when it comes to one of our most precious resources: our time. For anyone who has felt the weight of nonstop deadlines, the buzz of your phone, or the pressure to prove your worth through productivity, this message invites us to consider how we steward our time and what might be lost if we don’t.

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No one gets behind the wheel planning to crash. Yet, it happens every day. People crash, not because they meant to, but because they drifted, got distracted, or ignored the warnings. This isn’t just true for driving. It’s true in life. People don’t plan to wreck their marriage, lose their integrity at work, or compromise their financial future. But all too often it happens when we live without guardrails.

In this new series, “Guardrails,” we are exploring the spiritual boundaries God gives, not to restrict us, but to protect what matters most. In this sermon, we begin in Genesis 3 with a subtle question that changed everything: Can God really be trusted?

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What would it look like if the door to God’s love and grace was wide open in your life? What if God’s peace, mercy, and goodness were breaking through in your everyday moments?

Prayer is the way Jesus teaches us to connect with God and invite Him to shape our daily lives. In this sermon, we explore Luke 11, where Jesus teaches us how to pray and shows us that when we ask, seek, and knock, God responds. We’ll uncover practical ways to “open doors” so heaven becomes real in our homes, workplaces, and communities through the way we live and love.

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Have you ever found yourself at a loss for words when someone you care about is hurting? It’s easy to feel powerless. You want to comfort, but you don’t want to say the wrong thing. You want to show up, but you’re not sure how.

This desire within us—to help, to be useful, to make a difference—is Christlike. After all, we follow Jesus, who taught us to move towards the hurting and be the hands and feet of God. But what if offering our presence could be just as powerful as taking action? In this sermon, we explore the comfort God offers us and calls us to extend to others. Together, we consider how God can shape us into people of deeper strength and compassion in a hurting world.

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What do we do when tragedy strikes and suffering seems random? It’s easy to feel overwhelmed or distant from God in the face of broken circumstances and unanswered questions. Yet, we believe that these hard realities don’t mean God is absent or uncaring. So, how can we recognize and hold onto God’s love in the midst of life’s messiness? 

In this sermon, we explore how God responds to our pain and shares our struggles with us. Through the Parable of the Good Samaritan, we discover a beautiful image of compassion that doesn’t just observe suffering from a distance but moves toward it, even when it is costly.

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Do you ever wonder if you have to “clean up” your life before God will really show up? Life isn’t neat or tidy. There are joys and sorrows, questions and celebrations. And sometimes, we feel pressure to have it all together or hide the parts of our lives we are ashamed of, even with God and other believers. But what if God invites us to bring our whole, honest selves before Him? What if our messiness is exactly where He wants to meet us? 

In this sermon, we explore the hope and freedom found in the presence of a God who walks with us through every part of our lives—from the hardest days to the best, and all the ones in between.

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Do you have the mindset of Jesus? So often we spend time, money, and energy learning to think like others so that we can be more like them—more successful in business or influential in relationships. But what if we could learn to think more like Jesus so that we can be more like him? 

The Apostle Paul thought we could, and he gives us a blueprint in Philippians 2 to embrace humility like Jesus did. But that’s easier said than done, isn’t it? In this sermon, we explore how we as Christians can be of one mind and with each other in Jesus by exploring what it truly means to have a humble heart.

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Have you ever found yourself presented with an opportunity you felt totally unqualified for? Two thousand years ago, an ordinary disciple named Ananias found himself in the same position. God had called him to do something that seemed risky, unexpected, and far beyond his comfort zone. But what if being the “right person” for God to work through has less to do with qualifications and more to do with availability? And what if the places and spaces you occupy are exactly where He wants to work? In this sermon, we turn to this story from Acts 9 to explore how God works through unlikely people in unlikely ways, including us.