Serving Jesus Christ

This Sunday's Inspirational Message is:

Don't Leave Home Without It!

Let me ask you a simple question. When was the last time you opened your Bible on a Tuesday? Not on Sunday. On a plain, ordinary Tuesday. Honestly, for a lot of us, that question stings a little.

Here's a thought that has stuck with me. Satan deceived one-third of the angels. Imagine what he is capable of doing with a generation that does not read the Bible. Let that sink in. Angels stood in the very presence of God, and still many were fooled.

Today we're in 2 Timothy 3:14–17. The apostle Paul is in a cold Roman prison. He knows he will die soon. And he writes one last letter to a young pastor named Timothy. His message is clear. The world is full of deceivers. So stay with the Scriptures. Keep going back to the Book.

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Once again, thanks for joining us in our time of worshiping the Lord through His Word!

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"Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. 1995. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

The music "Revive Us Again" and "Be Thou My Vision" arranged and played by Don Wigton. Used by Permission.

Today we're talking about something every one of us will face. Death. Honestly, most of us would rather not talk about it. But you know what? God does talk about it. And He talks about it with hope.

Our text is 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18. It's only six verses. But those six verses have been read beside more graves than almost any other passage in the Bible. And for good reason. They're full of hope.

Here's what we'll see. First, we grieve, but we grieve with hope. Christians cry. Jesus cried. But our tears have a floor under them. Second, Jesus is coming back, and the dead in Christ will rise first. The believers we've buried aren't forgotten. They're first in line. Third, we will be together with the Lord forever. So we comfort one another with these words.

Let me give you a few things to do as you listen. Think of someone you love who has died in the Lord. Hold their name in your heart. Then think of someone who is grieving right now. Ask God how you might bring them comfort this week. And ask yourself one honest question. If Jesus came back today, would I be ready? Honestly, that's the question that matters most.

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Once again, thanks for joining us in our time of worshiping the Lord through His Word!

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"Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. 1995. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

The music "Revive Us Again" and "Be Thou My Vision" arranged and played by Don Wigton. Used by Permission.

This Sunday's Inspirational Message is:

Who Can Stand?

Today we open one of the most hopeful pages in the whole Bible. Revelation 7:9-17. Now, I know. Revelation can feel like the scary book. Horsemen. Earthquakes. Falling stars. But right in the middle of all the shaking, God pulls back the curtain. And what do we see? Not chaos. A crowd. A crowd so big that nobody can count it. People from every nation on earth.

They're standing before God's throne. They're dressed in white. They're waving palm branches. And they're singing.

Here's the thing. Just one verse before this chapter, people on earth cry out a scary question. "Who is able to stand?" Revelation 7 gives the answer. The ones who stand are the ones washed in the blood of the Lamb.

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Once again, thanks for joining us in our time of worshiping the Lord through His Word!

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"Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. 1995. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

The music "Revive Us Again" and "Be Thou My Vision" arranged and played by Don Wigton. Used by Permission.

This Sunday's Inspirational Message is:

Being Content In All Seasons

Let me ask you a question. Are you content today? Honestly, most of us would say, "Well, mostly." Or maybe, "I will be, once a few things change." Once the crop is in. Once the bills are paid. Once the kids are settled. Once the doctor calls back. Here's the thing. That "once" never seems to come, does it?

Today we're opening Philippians 4:11-13. These are some of the best-loved words Paul ever wrote. And some of the most misunderstood. Paul wrote them from a Roman prison. He was chained to a guard. He had no idea if he would live or die. And he said, "I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am."

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Once again, thanks for joining us in our time of worshiping the Lord through His Word!

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"Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. 1995. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

The music "Revive Us Again" and "Be Thou My Vision" arranged and played by Don Wigton. Used by Permission.

This Sunday's Inspirational Message is:

The Best Trade

Let me start with a question. Suppose you sat down at the kitchen table tonight and drew two columns on a sheet of paper. One says "gain." The other says "loss." What would you put where? Your job? Your savings? Your good name? Your good works? Your years of church attendance?

Here's the thing. The Apostle Paul did that very exercise. He sat down with his whole life. His family tree. His religious record. His education. His zeal. His spotless reputation. And he moved every single item out of the gain column and into the loss column. Every one.

Why would a man do that? Was he being dramatic? Was he throwing his life away?

No. He found something worth more than all of it put together. He found Jesus Christ.

In today's message we're walking through Philippians chapter 3, verses 8 through 11. It's one of the richest passages in all of Paul's letters. In just four verses, Paul tells us three wonderful things. He tells us why knowing Christ is worth more than anything this world can offer. He tells us how a sinner can stand before a holy God, not in his own goodness, but clothed in the righteousness of Christ, received by faith alone. And he tells us where the Christian life is headed: through the fellowship of Christ's sufferings, all the way to the resurrection from the dead.

Maybe you are carrying a heavy ledger today. Maybe you've been trying to balance the books with God by being good enough. Or maybe you've lost a great deal this year, and you're wondering if it's all been for nothing. This message is for you.

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Once again, thanks for joining us in our time of worshiping the Lord through His Word!

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"Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. 1995. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

The music "Revive Us Again" and "Be Thou My Vision" arranged and played by Don Wigton. Used by Permission.

This Sunday's Inspirational Message is:

The Math of Grace

Today we're opening up Matthew chapter 20, verses 1 through 16 - the parable of the workers in the vineyard. Jesus tells a story about a landowner who hires workers throughout the day, some at dawn, some just an hour before quitting time. And then, at the end of the day, he pays every single one of them the exact same wage. The guys who worked all day in the hot sun get upset. That doesn't seem fair. And honestly? It doesn't seem fair to us either.

But that's exactly the point. Today's message is called "The Math of Grace," and here's the simple truth we're going to walk through together: God's grace doesn't add up the way our grades, our paychecks, or our merit badges do.

Grace isn't earned. It's given. And once you understand that, it changes how you see God, and it changes how you see other people..

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Once again, thanks for joining us in our time of worshiping the Lord through His Word!

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"Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. 1995. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

The music "Revive Us Again" and "Be Thou My Vision" arranged and played by Don Wigton. Used by Permission.

This Sunday's Inspirational Message is:

Practical Holiness

Today we're talking about a word that makes a lot of us squirm a little: holiness. Maybe it sounds like something for monks, or missionaries, or people a whole lot more spiritual than you and me. But that's not what the Bible means by it. Peter, writing to ordinary Christians scattered across the ancient world, tells them plainly: "You shall be holy, for I am holy." Not "you might be." Not "try to be, if you feel like it." You shall be.

We're going to walk through 1 Peter 1:13-16 together, and we're going to discover that holiness isn't about becoming stiff or joyless or unrelatable. It's about becoming who God actually made you to be in Christ. It starts in the mind, it refuses to go back to old patterns, and it reaches into every single corner of ordinary life — how we talk, how we work, how we treat our families, how we spend a Tuesday afternoon.

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Once again, thanks for joining us in our time of worshiping the Lord through His Word!

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"Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. 1995. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

The music "Revive Us Again" and "Be Thou My Vision" arranged and played by Don Wigton. Used by Permission.

This Sunday's Inspirational Message is:

What Is Sin?

Last week, I shared on the Holiness of God. When we truly see God as holy, three things happen. It humbles us. It cleanses us. And it sends us. The holiness of God is not a threat to be feared from a distance. It is a reality that, when truly seen, humbles us, cleanses us, and sends us out to serve Him.

Today we're tackling a subject that, honestly, most of us would rather skip. We're talking about sin. Not in some abstract, theological, ivory-tower kind of way. We're talking about why sin matters - why it's serious - and why so many of us, myself included, have quietly stopped treating it that way.

You know what? I think most of us have a sin or two we've made peace with. A habit. A grudge. A pattern of thought. Something we've stopped fighting because, honestly, fighting is exhausting. We've made a truce with it. We've decided it's not that big a deal.

But here's the thing - God never made that truce. And today, from Isaiah chapter fifty-nine, we're going to look honestly at what sin actually does, why God takes it so seriously, and why we should too. This isn't going to be a guilt trip. I promise you that. It's going to be an honest look in the mirror, and then - thank God - a look at the cross, where sin was dealt with once and for all.s.

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Once again, thanks for joining us in our time of worshiping the Lord through His Word!

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"Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. 1995. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

The music "Revive Us Again" and "Be Thou My Vision" arranged and played by Don Wigton. Used by Permission.

This Sunday's Inspirational Message is:

The Holiness of God!

Today we're wading into deep water. We're talking about the holiness of God. Now, I know that phrase can sound like something out of a dusty old textbook. Honestly, it might make you want to change the channel. But stay with me, because this is not a topic for theologians locked away in libraries. This is a topic for farmers and nurses and truck drivers and tired moms and every single one of us who has ever wondered, "What is God really like?"

We're going to open the book of the prophet Isaiah, chapter six, and stand with him in the temple on the day everything changed for him. A king had just died. The nation was uncertain. And in the middle of that uncertainty, Isaiah saw something that no comfortable religion ever prepares you for. He saw God as He actually is. Holy. Set apart. Other.

Here is where we are headed. When we truly see God as holy, three things happen. It humbles us. It cleanses us. And it sends us.

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Once again, thanks for joining us in our time of worshiping the Lord through His Word!

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"Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. 1995. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

The music "Revive Us Again" and "Be Thou My Vision" arranged and played by Don Wigton. Used by Permission.

This Sunday's Inspirational Message is:

Buried To Live!

Today's message is a special one. We had a baptism this morning at Our Savior's, and honestly, there is nothing quite like watching God claim a life right in front of your eyes. So I want to take this episode to walk through what baptism actually means, straight from God's Word, in Romans chapter 6, verses 1 through 5.

Here's the thing. A lot of us have watched a baptism, maybe even our own children's, and we walked away thinking, "That was sweet," but we never really understood what just happened. Baptism is not just a nice church tradition. It is not just a photo opportunity with a cute outfit and a proud grandma in the second pew. Baptism is God doing something real. He is burying the old you and raising up something brand new.

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Once again, thanks for joining us in our time of worshiping the Lord through His Word!

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"Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. 1995. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

The music "Revive Us Again" and "Be Thou My Vision" arranged and played by Don Wigton. Used by Permission.