One of Jesus' key disciples is murdered, another escapes miraculously, and a prideful man dies horribly. This passage is informative and also applicable, to our prayers for the persecuted church, to our precaution and presentation with regard to...

YOU. JUST. WAIT. Three simple words that could be taken several ways: the last passage in Malachi makes several of them work at once. In our final sermon we look at Corgis, comic book heroes, warnings against coveting the arrogant, and eternal...

"Spare Change" - God doesn't change, but the Israel wasn't even giving God their spare change... and He has words with them about it. In the same ways, many today accuse God of "changing" and many of us are just as stingy and without the...

Ben Keller, in our first live gathering since the shutdown, has us pause in the Old Testament to consider 4 critically important, and timely, words.

Does the Lord always listen? Have we wearied him with OUR words? Are our outcries for justice hypocritical, selective, and self-serving? Thankfully, Malachi doesn't just rebuke, but promises a pivotal prophetic solution.

Who gets to call God Father? Who will He cut off? God makes it clear not ALL tears are created equal, and we clarify what we have "in common" but how we also treat our relationship as "common" (profane) when it should be anything but.

The OFFAL Truth - God tells us how he REALLY feels about half-hearted worship, blemished offerings, and showing partiality in our instruction. Perhaps he shuts the doors of worship for a reason?

Malachi 1 - Tilting at Windmills: God chooses to open this book with a reminder of his choice and sovereignty, exposing for us one of the most challenging theological concepts to our will and our pride. Are we humble enough to let the scriptures be...

Hamartiology is the study of sin. Should we REALLY be students of sin? We have to know our enemy well if we want to put it to death, and the world redefines it, so we need to seek Scripture's specific terms and definitions to help us understand what...

Don't Be a Stranger - Joel concludes with good news and a glimpse of an amazing eternal future worth contemplating, a needed counteragent to present woes to usher in true and healing hope.