Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | Jeremiah 35 features a unique story where God brings the Rechabites (a quasi-Amish subculture) into the Temple, for the purpose of making a point to the larger Israelite population. Chapter 35 shows us legalism, immorality, and the path to discernment.

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | In Jeremiah 23, God calls out the many faux leaders and false prophets in Israel, specifically listing 5 main, signs of these types of leaders - signs that are just as relevant for us today.

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | In Jeremiah 12, God gives the prophet Jeremiah a sobering indictment - to have faith in His plan, even when it doesn't feel fair, just, or right. The solution to this discouragement is greater faith in the righteousness, love, and compassion of God. 

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | Jeremiah puts the people of God on notice, right as they are walking into the Temple for a worship service. According to God's Word through Jeremiah, worship has more to do with our heart posture towards and our relationship with Him and less about the building we walk into or the rituals that we keep on a certain day of the week.

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | In chapter 2, Jeremiah recounts why 8 different reasons why Israel abandoned the LORD. Their 8 reasons are just like ours today. God responds to Israel's straying just like He responds to us - there's 1 main reason to stay. 

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | The book of Jeremiah opens with Israel's pseudo-religious context and God's call for Jeremiah to preach repentance over self-made righteousness. 

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | John 20 highlights what makes Jesus Christ truly unlike any other religious leader or person to have ever lived: the resurrection. In John 20, the gospel writer provides proof for the resurrection for the mind, a picture of the resurrection for the body and soul, and a plea of the resurrection for the heart.  

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | John 19 features Jesus' big, heroic accomplishment - the apex moment of his message, mission, and ministry - giving his life as an atonement for sin on the cross. As we'll see, all heroes follow Jesus' heroism: a hero fulfills his high calling, defeats evil, and ushers in a new order of goodness into the world.

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | At the unjust trial of Jesus, the religious leaders show their true colors of legalism and lawlessness. Time and time again, they try to uphold certain laws while violating others - all trying to justify what they want. 

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | In John 18, Jesus treks from the Temple Mount, through the Kidron Valley, to the Mount of Olives - and back again. His path symbolizes the gospel message, what He'd go through, and where He'd take us.