Chris Sheppard

Preaching from the Great Commission and the worship scene of Revelation 5, the message traces God's missionary heart from Genesis to Revelation and calls the church to a personal, healthy, and accountable partnership in missions work

Great Commission

Tracing the evangelistic pattern of Jesus, the church at Antioch, and Paul's ministry, the message calls believers to see evangelism as personal, corporate, and worked out through the church's programming, not as a gimmick but as the

Working through Jesus's teaching on the friend at midnight and the father who gives good gifts, the sermon urges believers to come to God boldly and persistently as beggars pleading for the Spirit's work, especially the illumination needed

Meaningful church membership is a formal commitment to an identifiable local body joined together for God's purposes. Members are called to assemble, receive the Word, serve through their gifts, practice the ordinances, proclaim the gospel,

Church Membership

Continuing a study of the church's ten pillars, this message defines regeneration as the secret act of God that imparts new spiritual life, insisting that salvation is a sovereign work of grace through the Word and Spirit rather than the

New Birth

Drawing from Psalm 19's description of God's law, this message in a series on the pillars of the church argues that Scripture's sufficiency and authority must never be traded for tradition, warning that deviating from God's revealed plan

Scripture Authority

Preaching through Romans as part of a series on the pillars of the church, the message warns against watering down the gospel into a formula for decisions and insists that both the good news and the bad news of sin and judgment must be

Working from Matthew 16:18 and surveying how nearly every New Testament letter was addressed to a church, the message calls believers to see the church as God's called-out people and to give themselves sacrificially to its work rather than

Returning to the ten pillars series from 1 Timothy 3:14-15, the message describes the church as God's household, purchased and assembled by Him, and calls believers to let that identity govern how they live rather than looking back at past

Finishing Jesus's trial before Pilate, the sermon traces the Jewish leaders' hypocritical appeal to Caesar and highlights the lowly majesty of Christ, who knowingly submitted to sinful men, rejection, torture, and the cross to bear the