Sermon Overview:

The transfiguration is not the resurrection: It’s a taste of glory, not the wedding feast of the lamb. It’s meant to whet our appetites for more, not satisfy our spiritual hunger.

Scripture Reading:

Hebrews 12:18-29

Sermon Overview:

Jesus teaches His disciples the economics of salvation.

Scripture Reading:

1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Sermon Overview:

Do you want what Jesus wants?

Scripture Reading:

Mark 8:31-33

Sermon Overview:

We all see Jesus but indistinctly, like the man who saw men as walking trees. The question for everyone isn’t, “who do they say Jesus is,” but “who do I say Jesus is.” Who is Jesus? Amidst our false idols and temples of self, we have to address this central question, “who do I say Jesus is.”

Scripture Reading:

Isaiah 35

Sermon Overview:

Jesus warns His disciples to watch our for the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod. If they fail to do so, they will begin to think and act like the Pharisees, replacing the Word of God for their own traditions and expectations of the Messiah and the Kingdom of God.

Scripture Reading:

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Sermon Overview:

Disciples of Jesus are forgetful and hardly expect miracles, even though Jesus is always exceeding our expectations and providing for us in our spiritual and emotional wilderness. The consistency of Christ is in sharp contrast to the inconsistency of His followers, and for this we give thanks!

Scripture Reading:

Isaiah 35

Sermon Overview:

Motherhood is a mission in a hostile territory. It is the strength of women to bear children, and they must be militant in their faith. This battlefield is central to God spreading His Kingdom generation by generation.

Scripture Reading:

Proverbs 31:10-31

Sermon Overview:

In a world largely void of good fathers, we need to reestablish the truth and goodness of Godlike Fatherhood. Faithful Fatherhood is what the world yearns for, so let us imitate our Father in Heaven with our children and in our Christian discipleship.

Scripture Reading:

Ephesians 5:1-21

Sermon Overview:

Your marriage, just like your house, gets cluttered with moral and ethical junk. Keeping a clean house is hard work that requires daily attention for the sake of the whole community.

Scripture Reading:

Galatians 5:26-6:1

Sermon Overview:

God made Eve to complete Adam and this is a profound mystery about Jesus and His bride, the Church.

Scripture Reading:

Genesis 2:18-24