Messages from the Pastor's Heart

Continuing the missions series, the message traces God's heart for the nations from the Old Testament to Revelation and calls believers to ask whether they are willing to be sent.

Opening a series on missions, the message establishes world evangelization as the church's great goal, commanded by Christ and modeled by the church at Antioch.

Great Commission

Working through the parable of the Good Samaritan, the message calls believers to prove their love for God by meeting the needs of neighbors, even those outside the walls of the church.

From the disciples' dispute over greatness, the message presents Jesus' rule of greatness: true ministry is found in servanthood born out of brokenness before God.

Tracing Lot's slow drift from Canaan toward Sodom, the message warns that cultivating a love for the world, even after receiving God's grace and correction, ends in ruin for a man and his family.

Examining Eli's failure in 1 Samuel 2 and 4, the message warns fathers that honoring children above God and tolerating sin at home will drive the next generation away from the Lord.

Working through the Shema in Deuteronomy 6, the message calls fathers and mothers to love God wholeheartedly and to weave that love into the ordinary rhythms of teaching their children at home.

Drawing on Job and Psalm 127, the message reminds parents that children are a gift entrusted by God, calling fathers and mothers to receive, love, and disciple them rather than push them away.

Concluding this study of family obstacles, the message warns husbands against both passivity and domineering leadership, calling them to serve their households out of love for Christ and to answer to God for their homes.

Turning to Titus 2 and Proverbs 31, the message calls Christian wives to purity, self-control, and a home-centered life that stands against the culture's competing vision of womanhood.