Jun 10, 2021 | Sunday Sermons
Show Us Your Majesty A Series on the Olivet Discourse God-with-us departs. It is a culminating ichabod. Jerusalem is being left desolate—gloriless. Anxiety appears to arrest the disciples as Jesus leaves the temple cursed. They struggle to make sense of what is...
Feb 25, 2021 | Devotional, Preaching, Sunday Sermons
Claiming the Kingdom The Coming and the Crisis The Coming The fullness of time had come. None could have known the immeasurable magnitude of the events that would now unfold. They are immense and intolerable to human instinct. The hosts of heaven studied every step...
Jan 14, 2021 | Preaching, Sunday Sermons
As saints, are we mourning over the loss of what we cannot keep more than rejoicing over the gain of what we cannot lose? All of us in Christ have obtained an inheritance of unspeakable riches. Not because of our doing, but because of His, so that we who are Christ’s...
Nov 19, 2020 | Devotional, Preaching, Sunday Sermons
Living for Christ makes us different in this world. We are not in step with its kingdoms. In a Christless culture, we are sojourners and strangers. Our views and values are not according to the lenses and loves of this world. Christ is our King and His kingdom is our...
Nov 5, 2020 | Devotional, Preaching, Sunday Sermons
A definitive departure marks the beginning of the end. Jesus leaves Galilee. He will not return until He is crucified and risen. At this turn, geography hints at theology. Jesus is leading His disciples to the Holy City, the capital of the kingdom. Matthew records the...
Oct 15, 2020 | Devotional, Shepherding, Sunday Sermons
The world prefers Caesar to Christ, even if a tyrant. Sometimes even people who claim God (John 19:15). And Caesar has many faces. Whether a totalitarian, a monarch, a socialistic state, a democratic republic, or the autocratic self, these are the kingdoms of...
