Chris Sheppard

Closing a four-week study of Proverbs on alcohol, the sermon argues that while drinking itself may be a matter of conscience, the personal risk to holiness and to the conscience of others makes abstaining the wiser and safer path.

Alcohol and ConscienceChristian LibertyPersonal Holiness

Psalm 3 finishes by showing David resting, praying, waiting, and trusting the Lord's deliverance in the middle of fear. Trouble becomes an invitation to seek God privately, stay in his word, keep praying, and wait for his work.

Persevering PrayerTrusting God's DeliveranceTrials

Jesus confronts divorce and remarriage by calling his hearers to submit their assumptions, experiences, and traditions to the authority of Scripture. The message begins with the need to recover God's standard for marriage rather than follow

Divorce and RemarriageGod's Design for MarriageScripture Authority

Continuing through Proverbs 23:32-35, this message traces the drunkard's distorted reality, reckless speech, and delirious, dangerous decisions, urging hearers to remember the bitter end of drink and heed Solomon's warning before temptation

Drunkenness WarningWisdom for LivingFamily Discipleship

Psalm 3 begins with David's fear as he flees Absalom, but moves toward trust as he remembers the Lord as shield, glory, and lifter of his head. Trials become occasions for fear to turn into faith through prayer and God's word.

David's Flight from AbsalomFear to FaithTrials

Concluding the study of Matthew 5:27-30, the message presses the impossibility of meeting God's standard of righteousness in one's own strength and points the guilty to the new birth as the only remedy, since only a heart made new in Christ

New BirthImputed RighteousnessSermon on the MountImpossibility of Self-Righteousness

Drawing on Proverbs 23:29-32, the sermon paints Solomon's unflinching portrait of the drunkard who lingers over wine and chases stronger drink, and urges families to confront this sin honestly rather than hide it as a private shame.

Drunkenness WarningFamily SinPortrait of the Drunkard

Opening a series on alcohol from Proverbs 20:1, the sermon shows how Solomon pictures wine and strong drink as mockers and brawlers, then traces the ruin drunkenness brought on Noah, Lot, and the Corinthian church to warn against its

Drunkenness WarningPersonification in ProverbsConsequences of Sin

Working through Matthew 5:27-28, the exposition presses past the outward act of adultery to Jesus' teaching that lustful intent is itself adultery of the heart, leaving every hearer guilty and in need of the mercy Christ showed the

Lust of the HeartAdultery DefinedMercy for SinnersSermon on the Mount

Opening a study of Psalm 2 during the early days of a global pandemic, this message shows how rulers and nations rage against God's rule, and presses the unconverted to see their own rebellion mirrored in the psalm and to turn to Christ in

Rebellion Against GodGod's Sovereign RuleCall to Repentance