Sunday Sermons

How do you relate to those who are living in sexual immorality? Do you relate to them with more grace or more truth? Some approach with mostly grace, while avoiding truth. Others ensure only truth is spoken, not leaving room for much grace. But which is better to lead with? The reality is, neither is best to put forward more than the other. As Jesus both taught and lived, we must walk in the fullness of both grace and truth.

God is the creator of humanity, and stamps both male and female with a divine imprint, in His image. The difference between male and female is woven into the fabric of creation, and it is beautiful. But sin distorted who we are and who God created us to be. Sin distorted sex, which in turn distorts us. So what do we do?

There’s truly nothing else in the world like sex. Because of that, there’s also nothing else in the world that impacts us like sex. It connects people, drives people, destroys people, and divides people. Culture convinces us, and sometimes we convince ourselves, that sex is only physical. But if that is true, why is the pain of sexual sin so deep? It’s because sex is not just a physical thing. It’s a soul thing.

The greatest influence we can have in the world is mentoring someone else.

You may not be able to change the world, but you can change one person’s world.

Everything rises and falls on leadership. Your school, your church, your family, your marriage; it all rises and falls on leadership. And leadership is influence.

Young people are not the future church; they are the church now. The greatest influence we can have is on young people. But the only way to be a church that influences young people is by being a young church. And we are a young church when young people are operating as the body of Christ.

Jesus established his church to be His agent of hope, to be His body, to carry on His mission, and ultimately, to positively influence the world for God’s glory. But we cannot do this by ourselves. It requires every single one of us living and operating as the body of Christ.

Jesus said in order to follow him, we must pick up our cross daily and never look back. But in order to do so, we have to turn away from living by our flesh. We have to literally die to ourselves so that we can live for Him and what he wants to do in us and through us. Jesus demands sacrifice. Jesus never hid that cost. To follow Jesus means to follow him wherever, whenever, in whatever.

In a world where everything revolves around self (protect yourself, promote yourself, preserve yourself, entertain yourself, comfort yourself, take care of yourself, love yourself, serve yourself), Jesus said that whoever is going to follow him totally must deny themself.