Everyone is chasing the “good life,” but Jesus tells us where it is truly found. In this sermon on John 10:10, we explore our deep longing for abundance—and the hired hands we mistakenly follow in hopes they’ll give it to us. Whether it’s success, money, relationships, or the fear and shame that keep us hiding, none of these can protect us from the…

John 6:37–40 proclaims that Jesus came down from heaven on a divine rescue mission—not merely to give an example or offer the possibility of salvation, but to actually save sinners with certainty and secure their eternal life. We all long for comfort but will we find it in human effort or in Christ’s sovereign grace? True assurance cannot be found …

In this message, we explore Paul’s final words in 2 Corinthians and his surprising list of commands—which begin with “Rejoice.” Far from burdening us, God’s commands reflect His loving heart and His desire for our joy, peace, and restored relationships. Paul shows that the strength to obey does not come from within us but from the God who gives wha…

In a culture that constantly tells us to fight for ourselves, protect our image, and chase the things that prove we matter, Paul offers a radically different path—one that leads not to sadness, but to joy. Drawing from 2 Corinthians 13:6-10, this sermon explores the burdens of self-centeredness and the misery of envy, while revealing the surprising…

We often hear Paul’s call to “examine yourselves” as an invitation to be harder on ourselves — to dig deeper into our failures and shortcomings. But what if that’s not what he meant at all? In this powerful sermon from 2 Corinthians 13:5–10, Pastor Tim reminds us that self- examination isn’t about seeing how sinful we are, but about seeing who is i…

In 2 Corinthians 13:1–4, Paul delivers a sobering warning—but not one meant to shame, rather to save. In this sermon, we explore why God’s warnings are actually acts of grace, how church discipline protects rather than punishes, and what it means to live in repentance and belonging to a faithful church family. Like a siren before a storm, God’s war…

Have you ever tried to help someone only to be accused of trying to take advantage of them? Despite all that Paul had done for the Corinthians, they continued to demonstrate their distrust by falsely accusing him of things. Nevertheless, Paul responded to them by spending and being spent for their souls. In this message, we will consider what it lo…

It is very natural to try to mask our insecurities with accomplishments. What happens when our reputation is challenged? Is being in Christ enough? Listen and hear how the gospel frees us to find all of our worth in the person and work of Christ.توسط Wes Van Fleet

Paul believed that in the midst of his weakness and suffering that God wanted to meet him in a special way. This changed the way Paul understood his suffering. Now, instead of seeking to avoid his weakness at all costs, Paul sought to connect with his Jesus in it. In this message, we will consider what it would look like to follow Paul down this pe…

Have you ever begged God for something only to hear him say no? In 2 Corinthians 12 Paul pleads with God to take away a terrible thorn in his flesh, but God chose not to. Instead he made Paul a promise. A promise that he continues to give to his people whenever he says no to the thing they are asking for. If you have ever heard God's no then you wi…

توسط Martin Zelaya

Have you ever found that your love for someone ended up bringing suffering into your life? In this passage Paul reveals that the greatest suffering in his life flowed from his love for others. And yet instead of trying to hide his heartbreak or pull back in order to avoid letting it happen again we find that Paul actually boast about the pain that …

How do you respond when you try and do something good and end up experiencing opposition or suffering for it? In this sermon we will compare the different ways we often respond to suffering and the way Paul chose to respond to the suffering that he endured.توسط Tim Cain

توسط Martin Zelaya

توسط Tim Cain

توسط Martin Zelaya

توسط James Lecheler

Whose approval are you really looking for? Yourself? Others? A voice from the past? We are often tempted to compare ourselves with others in an effort to find something in ourselves worthy of commendation. Yet, when we do so we stray from our gospel hope in Jesus Christ. There is only one place where commendation is certain, and the approving face …

توسط Tim Cain

توسط Tim Cain

توسط Wes Van Fleet

What happens when the joy of our salvation encounters the extreme brokenness of this world? In this message we will see how the Gospel enables us to have a joy so great that it overflows in a wealth of generosity even in the worst of circumstances. How is that possible? That’s the question this sermon will address.…

Can you imagine a relationship where conflict could be dealt with in a way that actually made the relationship even stronger? What would it take for something like that to be possible? In this sermon we will look at how the Bible calls us to respond to relationships where our sin has caused a rupture. Reconciliation is possible even for the relatio…

As far as friendship goes, where does it rank amongst the different types of love? In an age where friendship is declining, where people are more easily offended than ever, is friendship something we are all longing for? Listen and hear how the gospel forms us into friends of Jesus and friends to one another.…

Pursuing reconciliation is hard, especially with those who have hurt us. In this passage, Paul models for us what it looks like for the offended party to pursue reconciliation. Everything about what Paul does in these verses appears risky and unnatural. And yet the closer we look at this passage, the more it becomes clear that Paul was simply tryin…

Sometimes God gives us a glimpse of something so great that we fear. Some may try to convince us that we should give up faith because it is too good to be true, or that we should be afraid of something so magnificent. However, godly fear doesn't drive us away from God but to him. It is this fear of God that brings holiness to completion in our live…

How do you keep your heart open to loving people after having it broken? In 2 Corinthians 6:11-13, Paul responds to being hurt by the Corinthians by telling them that he is going to keep his heart wide open towards them, regardless of the suffering it may lead to. Where does Paul find the courage to keep his heart open to people who have hurt him? …

The promises of God to his people and the presence of God with his people set them apart as the temple of the living God. Therefore, those who trust in Jesus are called not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers. They are a new creation and are called to live out their new creation identity in union with Jesus Christ.…

One of the hardest things to deal with in any relationship is coming to the realization that you love the other person more than they love you. Often, our first response to this realization is to pull back and seek to even the imbalances of love by loving less. In 2 Corinthians 6:11-13, Paul highlights the imbalance in love between himself and the …

Suffering changes us. Suffering can make us angry and bitter as it hardens our hearts, or it can soften us by growing our patience and genuine love for others. Paul believed that the way God used suffering to soften him and increase his patience and genuine love for others commended the Gospel message that he proclaimed. In this passage, we will di…

When you picture God watching you mess up, what sort of face is he making? All of us have images of God that come to mind when we think about Him; the question is, are the images that come to our minds biblical? What about beautiful? Is the God we picture when we are going through difficult times a God that we find beautiful? In 2 Corinthians 5, Pa…

2 Corinthians 5:17 makes the bold claim that if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation! Then you might wonder, "Why don't I feel more like a new creation?" Listen to hear how this new identity in Christ assures us of his great love for sinners like us and empowers our transformation to be more like Jesus as we die to self and live for Christ.…

توسط Tim Cain

For most people, the heaviest thing they have ever endured in their life has involved suffering. The loss of a loved one, the betrayal of a friend, the rebellion of a child, or perhaps the death of a dream, but here Paul describes the heaviest suffering you can imagine as light. How can Paul possibly say that with a clear conscience? That is one of…

What compels us to persevere in loving hard-to-love people and to share the gospel with people who openly resist it? The Apostle Paul was compelled to preach the gospel and proclaim the praises of God in the presence of others, and his motivation for doing so is found in our passage today. May we also be a people who cry out with the Apostle Paul, …

توسط Tim Cain

توسط Tim Cain

Shame flows from the feeling that we are not enough. It finds its power in the fear that our flaws will be exposed and inevitably lead others to abandon us. In this message we will consider the antidote to shame and to help us do that we will look at Peter and they way the risen Jesus rescued him from his shame.…

توسط Tim Cain

In this second sermon on beholding Christ's beauty, we will contemplate how that beauty leads to a changed life. Using Paul's statement in 3:18, we will look at Revelation 1-3 through that lens. Listen and hear how Christ's beauty transofrmed churches in the first century and continues to do so today.…

توسط Tim Cain

In this passage, Paul reminds us just how serious a thing it is to dwell among immortals and seek to point them to Jesus. But who is sufficient for such a massive calling? Paul helps us answer this question by exposing some of the false places we look for confidence and then showing us where it is that our ultimate sufficiency is to be found.…

We are all drawn to beauty. In a sense, beauty transforms us all. For followers of Jesus, this means that true transformation can only happen by beholding the pinnacle of beauty. Listen and hear how the gospel transforms us by beholding. Thanks!توسط Wes Van Fleet

One of the things that makes sharing the Gospel so difficult is the prospect of being rejected. Often, we spend a lot of energy trying to discern if people are ready to hear the Gospel or if they will be offended by it or if they are going to shut us down. We love sharing the Gospel with people who want to hear it, but we don’t see much good in sha…

Have you ever felt called to do something good for the glory of God only to find that something came up and ruined your plans? Why? Why does God allow the good plans that we have to fall through? In this message, we will consider how God wants us to respond when we find ourselves standing in the rubble of our broken plans.…

Paul was more like you and I then we might think. In 2 Corinthians we see that Paul was overwhelmed, he struggled with despair, he experienced fear and anxiety and there was even a time where these things kept him from preaching the Gospel. Paul was a lot like us. And yet he was also different. What made Paul different was the way that he honestly …

Forgiveness is hard, even when the person who hurts you repents. In fact, often it isn’t until they repent, that we begin to realize that we are not quite ready to forgive them yet. Sometimes sorry just doesn’t seem like enough. In this message we will see how Paul calls us to respond when it doesn’t feel like sorry is enough.…

Do you find yourself more likely to engage in conflict in order to pursue justice or to avoid conflict in order to protect yourself? Here we find that Paul shows us a third way. He spares the Corinthians justice, and yet he engages with them in a way that brings him a lot of pain in the hopes that God would use it to bring them to the joy that can …

Conflict has been the source of some of our deepest wounds. So how are we supposed to respond to the people who have hurt us? Is there a way to engage in conflict that doesn’t end up rupturing our relationships and leaving us to lick our wounds alone? In 2 Corinthians Paul is going to model for us how to engage in healthy conflict with people who h…