To the Praise of His Glorious Grace

“ Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. ” –Matthew 6:19-24 What do you treasure? I mean what do you esteem worthy of much value in your life? Your spouse? Your children? Your wealth? Your popularity? Your success? What is it that drives you to do what you do day in and day out? What is it that, were you to lose it, you would ...

Click here to listen to this sermon In this last of three spiritual disciplines Jesus highlights, we are called to a practice that is seldom practiced among believers in our day…fasting. We will learn here the way Jesus expects us to fast, Jesus warns us to fast for the right reasons, and lastly how we can begin fasting or continue the practice when it would help us in our walk with Christ.

Click here to listen to this sermon In this second of three spiritual disciplines that the Christian should regularly perform "in secret", or in a way that only God is our audience, we look at prayer. Jesus tells us what bad prayer looks like, then lays out for us the perfect model prayer which should guide all our prayers by first exalting God and then humbling ourselves before God.

Click here to listen to this sermon In this sermon we begin a series on three of the spiritual disciplines Jesus highlights that should be the regular part of every believer's life, but that should be done in such a way that only God is the audience. We are all tempted, especially in the area of giving to the needy, to be driven by man's praise. Jesus here says that the primary way the true righteousness of His followers differs from the false righteousness of the religious leaders of His day was that believers don't do these things for the praise of others.

Click here to listen to this sermon In this text, Jesus teaches us that we most resemble God when we love even our enemies and we most resemble the world when we love only our friends. So who do you most resemble? We are then called to pursue the perfect love of God, which is only possible by the power of the Holy Spirit when we are in Christ.

Click here to listen to this sermon In this sermon we examine Jesus' controversial topic of what to do when others mistreat you. We see here that to "turn the other cheek" is actually the opposite of a weak, fearful, and passive way to live life, but is rather a bold and confident way to love others more than you love yourself. To respond to mistreatment to your own image in self-denial instead of self-defense requires a deep faith in God and an invincible joy in the gospel.

Click here to listen to this sermon In this Independence Day weekend sermon we get a glimpse of the spiritual freedom we have been given in Christ. We have been set free from our hard-hearted rebellion by the veil-lifting power of the Holy Spirit at conversion, all so that we may live each day beholding the glory of the Savior. Now that we have been freed to behold his glory, we must daily live our lives in awe of his glory and we in turn will be changed into his image the more we do so.