Synopsis: True religion isn't external conformity to a list of rules — it's the family bond of brothers and sisters united to Christ, who get low enough to bear each other's weight and gently restore one another when sin traps someone in the church. But that ministry of restoration is only possible for those who've dealt with the log in their own eye first, since self-deception about our own…
Synopsis: Jesus fulfills the Law and the Prophets to make his kingdom people the salty light of the world, who obey the living Torah, Jesus Christ. Sermon Text: Matthew 5:13-20
Synopsis: Jesus is creating a new people, united in Him, under His authority. Over this new humanity He declares His blessing and gives promises. He is not describing works—He is describing attributes, characteristics of a kingdom people, not ones earned, but one graciously given. So today we are going to focus on the nature of a beatitude, the character of the blessed, and the rock upon which we…
Synopsis: When Jesus ascends the mountain, sits down, and opens his mouth, Matthew is not recording incidental staging — he is showing us the King of Israel assuming his throne, turning to his people, and declaring the constitution of his kingdom. Sermon Text: Matthew 5:1-2
Synopsis: The plowing is not only producing a harvest. It is producing the ploughman. You are not just anything — you are a living stone being prepared in the quarry of ordinary life, fitted by grace for the eternal temple. The harvest is not only something we will enter. The harvest is something we are becoming. Titus 2:11-14
Synopsis: The grace that appeared is the grace that trains. Jesus wore the crown of thorns to free us to work as we were made to work — and the Hebrew word for that work is the same word used for worship. We are priest-gardeners, made in the image of the Maker, plowing in every lawful calling until the Incarnation that ran downward has run us all, all the way back up. Sermon Text: Titus 2:11-14
Synopsis: The grace of God has appeared as the true sun of the world. The light that rose at Easter climbs higher and will not set until it has touched everything. We work in that light — and that seeing is the ground of our hope and the reason we plow. Sermon Text: Titus 2:11-14
Synopsis: We are reminded of our identity as citizens of a kingdom not of this world. From the culture of this kingdom we ought to wage war against our sinful passions, and the culture of the world, to the glory of God. Sermon Text: 1 Peter 2:11-12