Chris Sheppard

Beginning Ephesians 4:1-2, this message defines the worthy walk as a life carried out with humility, gentleness, and patience that matches the weight of the believer's calling, and corrects the common misreading that this call is chiefly

Worthy WalkChurch UnityIndividualism Warning

Paul's prayer in Ephesians 3 calls the church to seek inner strengthening, deeper communion with Christ, fuller comprehension of His love, and the fullness of God. The goal is greater usefulness in the church and greater glory to God.

Paul's PrayerFullness of GodChurch Usefulness

Returning to Ephesians after a break, this message unpacks Paul's prayer that Christ would dwell continually in believers' hearts through the Spirit's strengthening, so that what they believe is worked out into how they live.

Indwelling of ChristBelief and Behavior

Psalm 139, Jeremiah 1, and Proverbs 6 are used to show that life in the womb is God's work and that abortion sheds innocent blood. The message holds together moral clarity, gospel forgiveness, compassion for those who have sinned, and hope

Life in the WombInnocent BloodInfant Salvation

Ruth’s faithfulness, humility, and devotion provide a portrait of excellence shaped by grace rather than cultural ideals. Her story displays God’s providence through ordinary obedience, suffering, and covenant loyalty.

Covenant LoyaltyGodly WomanhoodOrdinary Obedience

Examining the sinful woman who anoints Jesus's feet in Luke 7:36-50, this message contrasts her costly, undignified act of worship with Simon the Pharisee's self-righteous contempt, showing that true gratitude flows only from those who know

Forgiveness of SinsSelf-RighteousnessWorship and Gratitude

Preached to honor graduating high school seniors, the message walks through Daniel's refusal to compromise in pagan Babylon and charges the graduates to live as thoroughly converted Christians, rooted in a healthy local church, for the

Daniel in BabylonThorough ConversionGraduate Recognition

Closing the Easter series before Resurrection Sunday, this message shows that Christ's death was predetermined, natural, unnatural, and supernatural all at once, pressing hearers to answer whether they truly believe in the crucifixion by

Sayings From the CrossSinlessness of ChristPredetermined VictoryCall to Believe

Working through the parable of the persistent widow in Luke 18:1-8, this message shows that God is nothing like the unjust judge but a loving Father who acts for His praying people, and calls believers to persevere in prayer rather than

Persistent WidowPerseverance in PrayerFatherly Care of God

Continuing the Easter series, this message examines the darkness at the cross and Christ's cry of being forsaken by the Father, presenting the substitutionary atonement and the holy wrath of God poured out on Jesus in the sinner's place.

Substitutionary AtonementDivine WrathSayings From the CrossFamily Worship