Revelation 8 is a picture of the end of the world. But at the end of the world, the main thing we see is not fear and anxiety, terror and violence. The main things we see are creation's astonished silence, and the saints' participatory prayers.

In history, in all times and places, in all the universe—in heaven and earth and under the earth—only one person is worthy to carry out God the Father's plan to redeem and renew all things. Only the Lion of Judah who became the Lamb who was slain—only Jesus Christ—is worthy. Only Jesus deserves our worship.

In our brokenness, we tend to elevate the things in this world to sacred status. But that tendency leads to spiritual (and sometimes physical!) death. In Revelation 4:1-11, we learn that we don’t have to create the holy out of the stuff of this world. Rather, we are invited into the holy, into heaven itself, through the gracious work of Christ for us.

In Revelation 1:9-20, John receives a vision from the Risen Christ in heaven. It is a message of comfort, peace, and encouragement to the church in trouble.

In John 11:38-45, Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. And in this story, we see a picture of us in our sin, and of Christ raising us from dead in sin to alive in him.

Nobody likes dealing with someone who isn’t in touch with reality. Our frustration with those who continue to ignore government health recommendations is that they’re ignoring how serious a threat COVID-19 is. Jesus’ followers often thought Jesus wasn’t in touch with reality either. Yet the truth was He was the only one who knew the beginning from the end and the reality of what God wanted for Him.

1. The Reality of Death

Martha didn’t understand what took Jesus so long to see them. When pressed, Jesus told her, “Your brother will rise again,” words that may have hardly brought real comfort to this grieving sister. Jesus however meant something for different from what Martha thought. He wasn’t promising that Lazarus would be resurrected on the final day of judgment. He meant Lazarus was going to rise right now, while Jesus was there.

2. The Reality of Life

This is why Jesus says, “I am the resurrection and the life.” He’s not here to be a miracle-worker but the miracle itself that everyone needs. This reality of eternal life wasn’t just a promise for the dead who believed but for the living who followed Him. As we deal with the reality of a faceless virus that brings death, we embrace the reality of eternal life in the face of Jesus Christ. God is with us in this crisis, whether we return to normalcy in a month or leads to our deaths. For Christ is our resurrection and our life.

In John 11:1-16, Jesus learned of his friend Lazarus's death from an illness. Surprisingly, Jesus responded to the news by saying his friend's sickness "does not lead to death." In this sermon, Pastor Jeff explains what Jesus meant and how his words give us hope in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

Everyone is looking for a hero in one way or another. In this sermon Matthew 4:1-4, Pastor Jeff Locke shows how Jesus took on the mantle of leadership in an unexpected but incredible way.

We start a new series as we look at the early days of Christ's public ministry. The baptism of Jesus in Matthew 3 reveals to us the kind of King and Kingdom that was coming to the world.

Pastor Kaiwin Su opens up Exodus 40 as Israel completes construction of the tabernacle. Would this be the final way God would dwell with His people or a sign of something greater?