Every heart longs to be happy. It motivates everything we do. And happiness is only had by loving something. David says our hearts are happiest when the love God alone.

Every human culture has some vision of what human flourishing looks like. Psalm 1 show us that every heart is shaped by something and that something will direct the course for that individual's life. "What will you love?" the Psalms asks and provides a future for the answering of that question.

To be a human being means to be dependent and limited. Yet, the lure of our culture and own hearts is to pursue independency and power. What does have to say about Power--it's glory and ruin? Here, we learn that power, rightly expressed, is to give up independence and love others by serving them.

What do we make of a good God and the notion of Hell? Listen here to hear about how a God of justice and a God of love are not opposites. Rather we see that love is always just...and how God has made a way for those deserving justice.

What do we do when the spiritual "high" wears off? Ryan talks about the importance--and problems of trusting in--our spiritual states...and how Jesus is better than the best of our states.

The Christian Scriptures teach that there is no such thing as a solo-Christian. When God rescues us, He puts us in community with others...and this is for our, and their, good.

Perhaps you perceive religion as morally constraining. Or, have you thought about following a religious code as a means for ultimate moral freedom? This sermon shows how in Christianity one gets something utterly unique: Real Freedom within Real Limits.

Does God really help those who help themselves? Here we learn that God doesn't save morally good people (no matter how squeaky-clean they may be). Rather, God's grace comes to people who are needy, realizing that they are helpless without Him.

All of us are people-pleasers to some degree or another. We want to be liked and esteemed. Christianity asserts that all of the opinions of all the people in the world don't hold a candle to the approval that comes from God himself to those who are in Christ.

What are we to make of the claim that not all religions can be equally true? Is our culture now now forced to deal with the subjective value of religion alone. Christianity is unique in what it affirms. It says that God as a person has come and to do so that He might be with men. Listen here for a sermon on the challenge of exclusivity.