God is both merciful and just. The justice of God demands that sin be dealt with in our lives, but mercy calls for God to be compassionate in his judgments. The book of Isaiah called Israel to repentance in many ways and yet also set the stage for both her redemption and the ultimate redemption of the world. This six-week series unpacks a series of key passages that point to the demand for God’s justice and the exercise of mercy on those who don’t deserve it.
This Easter Sunday sermon looks at the Christ Hymn in Philippians 2:5–11. It challenges the congregation to recognize that Christ’s incarnation is the model we are called to imitate. If we imitate Christ’s humility, we will make greater progress in building unity in the church.
This six-week series explores the book of Lamentations and its descriptions of grief and sorrow in the nation of Judah. In its clear language of pain and suffering, we see a reflection of our own. As Lamentations struggles with God, we struggle with God as well, and seeing how its grief progresses can help us to understand, deal with, and work through our own grief.
New Year’s is an opportunity for people to take stock of their life, think about the future, and make some changes. But as this single message reminds us, the number-one thing we need to remember as we enter a new year is to focus on God and his power, beauty, and glory.
We describe the Christmas season as being full of comfort and joy—and Isaiah 40:1–5 has a lot to say about that. This series unpacks the passage and reminds us that God through Jesus has brought comfort in our pain and joy through salvation; because of this, we can prepare our lives for redemption and proclaim Jesus to the world.
This 5-week sermon series through Leviticus examines with modern-day practicality the holiness of God, the Old Testament sacrificial system, and the Law of Moses, detailing how these instructions apply to Christians today. By considering the Law’s demand for holy living and the rigorous requirements for Israel to remain untainted by sin, this series lays a foundational understanding of God’s requirement for his people to be holy and how faith in Jesus is the only guarantee of our right relationship with God. Each week connects a specific New Testament concept to the Levitical topic at hand, touching on issues like sin, atonement, priesthood, redemption, purity, worship, and obedience.
This four-week series will dive into the difficult topic of how we can trust God when he seems silent and distant. Habakkuk, one of the Minor Prophets, faced many of the same questions and objections that we still face today: Where is God in the midst of injustice? Why doesn’t God do something about wickedness and suffering? How can I still trust God when what I believe in my heart doesn’t match what I see with my eyes?
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