Sermons from 2025
YHWH-Shammah (lesson 3 of 3): The Last Word
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people,…
The Great Reversal
Mary’s song is tender, but it’s anything but tame. She sees what almost no one else sees–that God is overturning the world’s assumptions. He lifts up the humble and brings down the self-assured. He keeps his promises fully, beautifully, and in ways no one expects. Her voice becomes the first proclamation of the great reversal that Jesus will embody in his birth, life, death, and resurrection. A lot of people in our church family walk feeling small, unseen, anxious, or…
God Came Near
John says the Word became flesh. Not a philosophy, not a program, not advice from a distance. God stepped into real human life with hunger, tears, vulnerability, and joy. He moved into our neighborhood. He drew near enough to be seen, heard, touched, rejected, and trusted. The birth of Jesus is not about God sending information. It’s about God giving presence. Jesus reveals what God is actually like, not through spectacle but through compassion, humility, and self-giving love. And he…
When Heaven Opens
Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!” And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them,…
Beholding and Becoming
Scripture Reading: 2 Corinthians 3:12-18 (ESV) Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. Yes, to this day whenever Moses is…
Another King, Jesus
When Paul and Silas preached in Thessalonica, their message caused an uproar. The people accused them of “turning the world upside down” by proclaiming another King—Jesus. They were right. The gospel they preached was not simply advice about how to be forgiven; it was an announcement that the true King had come. In Acts 17, Paul isn’t inviting people to make Jesus part of their lives. He’s declaring that Jesus already reigns. His resurrection proves that God’s kingdom has broken…
