For this message, we looked at Romans 13 and how the Gospel shapes the way we live in the world around us—how we respond to government and authority, how we love our neighbors, how we protect unity, and why followers of Jesus should live with urgency. Ultimately, we honor authority, but our highest allegiance belongs to Jesus

Worship is no longer about bringing a sacrifice - it's about becoming one. This week, we explore how God's mercy transforms us from the inside out, beginning with a renewed mind and leading to a life of sacrificial love. Discover what it means to belong to a spiritual famil,y

live as one body in Christ, and overcome evil with the power of good. This is the call to authentic worship: fearless love, transformed thinking, and lives fully surrendered to God.

Week 7 (August 2nd): God’s Plan Is Not Finished 

Romans 11:25–36 

Paul calls it a mystery. The partial hardening of Israel is not a theological accident, it is a divine  strategy. It has a purpose. It has a duration. And it has an end. The fullness of the Gentiles  coming in is not a replacement of Israel’s place in God’s plan, it is connected to Israel’s  restoration. When that restoration comes, Paul says it will be like life from the dead. 

The message will close the series by making the case that a church which has written off Israel  has misread Romans 9–11. Salvation is through Jesus alone, for Jew and Gentile alike. There is  no second covenant that bypasses the cross. But the same God who grafted in the Gentiles has  not abandoned the covenant He made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. His gifts and calling are irrevocable. That is the bedrock of every promise God has ever made to anyone. Paul closes  with a doxology because there is no other fitting response to a God whose ways are  unsearchable and whose judgments are past tracing out. The series ends not with a call to  figure it all out, but with an invitation to agree with God’s plans, and to fully worship a God  whose plan has never been in question.

Week 6 (July 26): Israel’s Stumble and the Mercy of God Romans 10–11:1–24 

Israel stumbled, but she did not fall beyond recovery. That is Paul’s argument across Romans  10 and the opening of chapter 11. The hardening is real. The unbelief is real. And God has not  rejected His people. A remnant exists by grace, and the hardening of the rest is not the end of  the story. 

The message will address replacement theology head-on. The church did not replace Israel.  The olive tree was not uprooted and replanted with new stock. Gentile branches were grafted  into a tree that was already standing. The natural branches were broken off through unbelief,  not because God voided the covenant. Paul’s warning to the Gentile church is direct: do not be  arrogant. You are a branch, not the root. Hold your standing with reverence, not with pride.  God’s mercy toward you is the same mercy He has not withdrawn from Israel. 

Vintage Church Liberty Hill guest speaker, Pastor Rob McCoy.

Vintage Church Liberty Hill guest speaker, Pastor Rob McCoy.

Week 5 (July 12): Has God’s Word Failed? 

Romans 9 

Romans 9 is where the series shifts from the new life grace produces to the glory of the God  who makes it possible. Paul asks the hardest question the gospel raises: if Israel was the  covenant people and they largely rejected Christ, does that mean God’s word failed? If His  promises to Abraham and his descendants didn’t hold, why would His promises to anyone else? 

The message will make clear that God’s word has not failed, because it was never based on  biological descent alone. The promise ran through a remnant defined by faith, not simply  bloodline. Paul reaches back to the patriarchs to show that God has always worked this way.  His sovereignty is purposeful, not capricious. The examples of Isaac and Jacob are not about  God predetermining individuals to salvation or damnation. They are about God’s freedom to call  a people to a purpose, to work His redemptive plan through unexpected vessels, including  Gentiles. Biblical election has always been this: a people called to a mission. Not a  predetermined list of winners and losers. That framework is what makes Romans 9 coherent,  and what prepares the church for the next two weeks.

On this special weekend in America, we look at the biblical foundations of our country and why religion and morality are the pillars of our democracy.

Week 4 (June 28): Glory That Outweighs It All 

Romans 8:18–39 

Romans 8 ends with one of the most sweeping declarations in Scripture. Paul has just described  groaning creation, a Spirit interceding with wordless prayers, and suffering that does not feel  redemptive from the inside. Then he makes the turn. None of it compares to the glory that is  coming. This is not wishful thinking. It is the logical conclusion of everything Paul has argued  since chapter 5. 

The message will anchor the congregation in what Paul actually says, not just how good it  sounds. The unbreakable chain from foreknowledge to glorification. The Spirit who intercedes  when we don’t know what to pray. The God who works all things for our good. And then the  doxology of certainty: nothing in all creation can separate the believer from the love of God in  Christ Jesus. The practical landing is a hard question worth sitting in. Do you actually believe that? And if you do, what would be different about how you live this week? 

Week 3 (June 21): Life in the Spirit 

Romans 8:1–17 

Romans 8 opens with one of the most consequential sentences in the New Testament: there is  no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. This is a theological truth claim, and getting  it right, or wrong, has massive implications for our identity and how we live the Christian  experience. When Paul makes this statement, he’s not just being optimistic. He is stating a legal  reality. The verdict has been issued. The case is closed. What follows from that verdict is a life  defined not by the fear of judgment but by the leading of the Spirit.

The message will explore what walking according to the Spirit actually looks like day to day. It  is not mystical passivity. It is an orientation, a setting of the mind, a direction from which you  draw. Paul contrasts the flesh-directed life with the Spirit-directed life not in terms of effort but  in terms of source. The Spirit-led believer is not a rule-keeper trying to stay compliant. They are  a son or daughter living from the reality of adoption. This week calls the church to stop living  under a verdict that has already been overturned, and to start living from the one that replaced  it.