Chris Sheppard

Wives are called to submit to their husbands as an outworking of the mutual submission believers already practice within the church, and this submission is grounded in the husband's headship and offered out of love for Christ rather than

From the creation account, Adam and Eve's calling to rule and fill the earth is applied to marriage and family, closing with a call for the church to be marked by simple obedience to what God has already made clear in His Word.

Continuing in Genesis 2, this message unpacks Adam's poetic delight over Eve as the pattern for marriage, warning that building a family on anything less than God's standard, like a house built with mismatched materials, produces recurring

Opening a series on God's design for the family from Genesis 1-2, this message establishes that marriage and children belong to God as the true owner, and that husbands, wives, and families are called to build according to his design rather

Closing out the Sermon on the Mount series with Matthew 7:24-29, the message contrasts the wise and foolish builders to argue that hearing Christ's words means nothing without obeying them when the storms of persecution and trial come.

Jesus welcomed children who were being kept from Him, and churches likewise must guard against a casual or overly rigid spirit that quietly blocks children from coming to Christ. Vacation Bible School exists because loving children well

Working through Matthew 7:21-23 at the conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount, the message warns that religious activity, even preaching, casting out demons, or moral self-comparison, cannot substitute for genuinely knowing Christ and doing

Concluding the Sermon on the Mount from Matthew 7:15-20, the message warns against false teachers who can be identified by their fruit and urges believers to stay planted in a healthy, doctrinally sound local church rather than drifting

Working through Matthew 7:7-12, this message pictures God as a loving heavenly Father who gives good gifts in answer to prayer, and ties that fatherly kindness to the call to treat others by the golden rule rather than with a judgmental

Turning the corner into the conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount at Matthew 7:13-14, the message contrasts the narrow way of difficulty and few travelers with the broad way of destruction, and presses hearers to decide which gate they will