Chris Sheppard

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

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

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

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.

Beginning an Easter series on Christ's words from the cross, this message traces the prayer of forgiveness and promise of salvation Jesus offered while dying, showing that this forgiveness was planned in eternity past and calls believers to

Returning to the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-36, this message traces the history of Jewish-Samaritan hostility to sharpen the obvious lesson of loving one's neighbor, then presses toward the greater lesson that love for

Working through Jesus' parable on prayer in Luke 11, this message urges believers to pray with bold, humble persistence, keeping written lists of lost people and struggling church members to intercede for.

Ephesians 3 continues the mystery made known by showing Paul's ministry as a gift of grace and the church as a display of God's manifold wisdom. The revealed mystery strengthens believers to see gospel suffering and Gentile inclusion in

Ephesians 3 begins Paul's explanation of the mystery that Gentiles are included in God's saving plan through Christ. Paul is shown as a prisoner and steward entrusted to make that mystery known to the church.

Opening the encounter behind the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-36, this message shows how the lawyer's question exposed his self-justification and pressed home that no one can keep the greatest commandments apart from