Recent Sermons

God hates pride. Pride is at the heart of all sin and promotes self-gratification and self-promotion. God requires, honors, and blesses humility. Jesus calls his children to lives of self-denial, service and sacrifice. These are the characteristics that mark true greatness.

What do you consider to be the greatest treasure of your life? How are you investing your life? What is the center of who you are and how you live? The answers to these questions will not only impact your life now but for all eternity.

Jesus uses children and a rich, young ruler to further explain what it means to follow him. Coming to God through Jesus demands a childlike trust and faith rather than trying to do something ourselves to earn that privilege.

In an attempt to discredit Jesus and alienate him from the crowds, the Pharisees question him about the emotionally charged topic of divorce. Instead of getting caught up in all of the debates of the day, Jesus takes them back to the scriptural model for marriage and the authority of God under which it was instituted.

Jesus' instructions to his disciples includes an extreme picture of the seriousness of sin. As his disciples, we are responsible to live our lives in such a way that they do not cause others to fall into sin. Sin must be dealt with in a drastic way because it destroys lives and condemns men to hell.

Jesus will spend a large portion of the last part of his ministry teaching his disciples. One of the most important lessons will be that of humble service. The greatest obstacle to this lesson is that most of us are not as interested in serving as in being served, in giving as in receiving, in pursuing God's way as in getting our own way, in being the least as in being the greatest.