Titus 3:8; 2 Corinthians 5:17-20Grace does not lead you to retreat from the world. It sends you back into it with a purpose. Titus 3:8 is a call to those who have believed God to be careful to devote ...  Read More

Ephesians 2:8-10; Matthew 5:7Grace is not merely a transaction that settles your debt before God. It is a transforming force that reshapes who you are from the inside out. As the sermon reminds us, yo...  Read More

Titus 3:6-7; Romans 8:16-17Grace does not simply rescue you from something. It rescues you into something. Paul writes that having been justified by God's grace, we become heirs with the hope of etern...  Read More

Romans 6:3-5Paul describes baptism as a burial and a resurrection. The old life does not get renovated -- it gets buried. What rises from the water is not an improved version of who you were. It is so...  Read More

Titus 3:3-5Before you ever searched for God, he was already searching for you. Paul's words in Titus 3 do not begin with a call to improvement. They begin with an honest reckoning of who we were witho...  Read More

Romans 15:1-2This world is not the final destination. We are all, as the sermon put it, just walking each other home. That changes how we see the person sitting next to us in the pew, the neighbor str...  Read More

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12A single coal pulled away from the fire grows cold. It does not matter how brightly it once burned. Isolation does that to us as well. We were not designed by God to believe from a ...  Read More

Galatians 6:1-2Bearing a burden is not the same as fixing a problem. It is not showing up with a checklist of corrections. It is slowing down to walk at someone else's pace. It is refusing to abandon ...  Read More

John 4:23-24It is easy to come through the doors of a church and go through the motions. We sing the songs, we bow our heads, we say the right words. But God is not looking at the surface. He is looki...  Read More

Psalm 121Life is lived in the long middle — the space between where we started and where we are going. Some days we arrive here strong. Other days we arrive carrying weight that no one else can see. B...  Read More

Titus 2:11-14Grace is not something you pay back. Grace is something you pay forward. Paul writes that the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people, and it instructs us to live wise...  Read More

Ephesians 2:8-10Salvation is not the finish line. It is the starting line. Paul makes this clear in Ephesians 2:10, reminding us that we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works t...  Read More