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There's a difference between a peacemaker and a peacekeeper — and most of us have been a peacekeeper our whole lives without realizing it. In this final message of The Good Life, we sit in Matthew 5:9: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God." If you've ever kept the peace by staying quiet, smoothing it over, or sweeping it under the rug, this one is for you. Keeping…
You can check every box — the job, the family, the schedule that actually works — and still lie awake feeling like something's missing. If nothing ever quite feels like enough, this message is about why, and where that hunger is actually pointing. In this message from our series The Good Life, we walk through Matthew 5:6 — "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will…
What did Jesus really mean by "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth"? In Matthew 5:5, meek doesn't mean weak, timid, or a pushover — it means something closer to strength under control. This message unpacks the third Beatitude and why the good life belongs to the people who stop fighting to control everything. We tend to run our lives like little kings and queens of our own small…
What did Jesus actually mean by "blessed are the poor in spirit"? It's the first line of the Beatitudes, the opening of the most famous sermon ever preached, and it's almost the opposite of what most of us picture when we imagine the good life. In this message from Matthew 5:3, we walk through what "poor in spirit" really means, and why Jesus says the good life belongs not to the people who have…
Most of us were taught that Revelation is a map of the end of the world — dragons, beasts, and a countdown to catastrophe. But what if the whole book was actually pointing at something much closer to home? In this final message of our journey through Revelation, Pastor Tony walks through chapters 21 and 22 to show what the book was really about all along: not a prediction about the world, but an…
Do you know if your name is in the Book of Life? In Revelation 20, John describes a moment where every person stands before God — and two books decide everything. This week, Pastor Tony Johnson unpacks what those books actually are, and why the question isn't as simple as "be a good person" or "just believe." Most of us live inside a false dichotomy. Either salvation is entirely up to Jesus and…
Revelation 20 is where the story finally lands: Satan is bound, released for one last rebellion, and thrown into the lake of fire for good. But the point isn't a timeline — it's that the outcome is already settled. If we know how the story ends, how should we live right now? In this message from our Revelation series, we walk through Revelation 19:19 – 20:10 ... the final battle, the thousand…
What will it look like when Jesus actually returns? Most of us picture a Rambo-style hero charging in with a sword, but the Bible paints a very different picture, and it changes everything about how we live right now. This week at 2|42 Community Church, we walk through Revelation 19 and the moment the hero finally steps into the story. Jesus returns on a white horse, eyes like fire, wearing a robe…
In Revelation 17, John has already watched dragons, beasts, and armies without flinching and then one thing finally stops him in his tracks. Not something terrifying. Something beautiful. A woman called Babylon, dressed in gold, holding a cup that looks like everything you've ever wanted. That's the warning: the most dangerous things in our lives rarely look dangerous. They look like the good…
Everything you've heard about the mark of the beast is probably wrong — and the truth is honestly more relevant to your Tuesday than to some far-off end times timeline. In this message from our series on Revelation, we walk through Revelation 13 and 14, decode what 666 actually meant to the people who first read it, and ask a more uncomfortable question than "what is the mark?" The real question…