Weekly sermons and daily Hope for Today devotionals from our lead pastor, Rusty Posey.
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Every person who is far from God matters deeply to Him, and He has chosen ordinary people like us to reach them. In Luke 15, Jesus told the story of a shepherd who left 99 sheep to search for the one that was lost, making it clear that no one is too far gone to be worth pursuing. Going after the lost is not optional. It is rooted in obedience to God's commands, our obligation to one another,…
Every person matters to God, and the parable of the lost sheep in Luke 15 makes that unmistakably clear. A shepherd who leaves 99 sheep to find just one is not being reckless. He is showing us the heart of God for every lost person. Going after the one requires love, compassion, support, and a genuine spirit of welcome. Someone once pursued you with the gospel, and now it is your turn to do the…
At some point, every believer was the one. Lost. Away from the flock. In desperate need of someone to come after them. Somebody left the ninety-nine for you. Are you willing to do the same for someone else? Who is your one?
The letter to the church at Laodicea in Revelation 3 delivers one of Scripture's most direct challenges: a church that had grown comfortable, self-sufficient, and spiritually useless. Using the well-known local problem of lukewarm water, Jesus was not simply criticizing a lack of enthusiasm. He was calling out a community that had stopped serving any purpose at all. Like the city's water supply,…
Grace is the foundation of the Christian life, yet it is easy to drift from it into busyness and performance. In Revelation 3, Jesus speaks to the church at Philadelphia about an open door that no one can close, and the greatest door God has ever opened is the door of grace. Just as John Newton, the author of Amazing Grace, was transformed from a slave trader into a pastor, grace meets us in our…
What if the God who knows everything also knows everything about you, and still chooses to draw near? Hagar was a runaway slave with no future. A woman in Luke 13 had been bent over and overlooked for 18 years. God stopped for both of them. He sees the people everyone else walks past. The question is: do we?
What if you had a reputation for being alive but were actually spiritually dead? That was the reality Jesus spoke directly to the church at Sardis, and it is a question worth sitting with today. Is your spiritual reputation on the outside an accurate reflection of what is happening on the inside? God is calling His people to wake up, remember, and press forward. There is always more of Him…
God sees your love, your faith, your service, and your growth, even when no one else does. But He also sees who is influencing you. Are the voices shaping your beliefs pointing you toward God's truth or pulling you away from it? The church at Thyatira faced that same question, and the answer Jesus gave them still matters today. Check out the full message to find out what He sees when He looks at…
Small compromises rarely announce themselves. They creep in slowly, a little silence here, a half step there, until the line between your faith and the culture around you becomes hard to see. The church at Pergamum stayed loyal to Christ in one of the most spiritually hostile cities in the ancient world, but even they let something dangerous take root. What areas of your life might be drifting…
What if your suffering is not a sign that God forgot you, but proof that you are worth the enemy's attention? Jesus had no rebuke for the church at Smyrna, only this: I see your pain, I have been there, and the crown waiting for you is worth it. Are you still standing?
You can do all the right things and still miss the mark. The church at Ephesus worked hard, endured persecution, and maintained sound doctrine—yet Jesus had one serious complaint. They had lost their first love. Are you more concerned with the work of the Lord or the Lord of the work? It's time to rediscover the passionate devotion that first drew you to Christ.
