Messages from the Pastor's Heart

Tracing the shift from the seventh-day Sabbath to the church's New Testament practice of gathering on the first day, the message calls families, and especially fathers, to make the Lord's Day a deliberate rhythm of rest, worship, and

Christian holiness must be pursued both individually and corporately, with Romans 14 helping believers navigate diversity without breaking unity. The church is a collage of redeemed people learning to pursue holiness together under Christ.

Church Unity

Christian holiness requires obedience to clear biblical commands while also learning wisdom in areas where Scripture gives no simple rule. The pursuit is personal, but it is lived in the local church where each believer’s holiness affects

2 Corinthians 7:1 calls believers to cleanse themselves from every defilement of body and spirit while perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Christian holiness is expected because God has made His people His dwelling place and His

2 Corinthians 6 and 7 examine Christian holiness as separation from sin and usefulness to God, not legalism or outward respectability. Holiness is expected in the church because God’s people belong to Him and live for His glory.

Concluding a study through Luke 11 and Luke 18 on prayer, this message uses the friend seeking bread and the persistent widow to explain why sinful, created beings have the right to bring bold, persistent requests to a sovereign God whose

God's Sovereignty

Continuing through Luke 11:5-13, the message unpacks the progression of asking, seeking, and knocking as persistent, ongoing prayer, illustrated by the fervent prayer life of missionary David Brainerd.

Opening the disciples' request "teach us to pray" in Luke 11, the message argues that even the most privileged disciples still lacked a prayer life, and calls the church into the new year with a renewed, simple pattern of prayer rather than

Paul's ministry in Corinth gives a new-year pattern for faithful gospel work: engaging people, devoting oneself to the Word, enduring rejection, and trusting God's open doors.

Concluding the missions series through Paul's sorrow for Israel in Romans 9, the message calls believers to a sincere, sorrowful, and sacrificial surrender to whatever part God calls them to play in world missions.