A study of Matthew 15:21-28, where Jesus withdraws to Tyre and Sidon and a persistent Canaanite woman pleads for her demon-oppressed daughter, exploring faith, persistence, and how the heart rather than ceremonial rule-keeping defines holiness.

A Lenten sermon on Psalm 118:1-13, examining the psalm's liturgical refrain that the Lord is good and his steadfast love endures forever, and how this bedrock truth of God's goodness sustains faith through any circumstance.

An Ash Wednesday message opening the season of Lent, using Joel 2:12-13's call to return to a gracious God, to consider why salvation must come through death, the parts of us that cannot simply be willed into change, and our need for a Savior.

Concluding the series on the role of the church in the life of Jesus before Lent, this message focuses on Luke 11, where Jesus teaches his disciples the Lord's Prayer, reflecting on the fact that the incarnate God himself prayed and needed what prayer offers.

Continuing the series on the role of the church in the life of Jesus, this message turns to Matthew 16 at Caesarea Philippi, where Jesus asks the disciples who people say he is and Peter confesses him as the Christ, setting up the transfiguration.

Continuing the series on the role of the church in the life of Jesus, this message examines his conflicts with the Pharisees over the Sabbath in Matthew 12, where the disciples pluck grain and Jesus declares himself Lord of the Sabbath, desiring mercy not sacrifice.

Continuing the series on the role of the church in the life of Jesus, this message follows Luke 4 from Jesus's temptation in the desert to his return to the synagogue in Nazareth, noting that worshiping weekly was his custom.

Continuing the series on the role of the church in the life of Jesus, this message turns to Matthew 3 and John the Baptist, setting the scene of first-century Judaism with its 613 laws and the guilt and shame surrounding them.

Continuing the series on the role of the church in the life of Jesus leading toward Lent, this message turns to Luke 2:41-52, the boy Jesus at the temple in Jerusalem, where his family went every year for the festival.

Beginning a new-year series on the role of church in the life of Jesus leading toward Lent, this message starts in Luke 2 with the infant Jesus's circumcision and traces the covenant with Abraham in Genesis 17 to explain circumcision's significance.