Jared Walters

James 3 exposes the power and danger of the tongue, showing that speech reveals what the heart treasures. The sermon urges believers to treasure God's Word and use redeemed speech to tell the truth, especially the truth of the gospel.

Gospel Witness

Luke 16 and related passages teach the reality of hell and the eternal weight of sin. The sermon points believers to what Christ has saved them from and warns hearers that rescue is found only in Him.

Revelation 1 reveals the risen Christ in glory and judgment. The sermon calls hearers to let Scripture shape their imagination of Jesus and to be overwhelmed by His majesty rather than by trials or temptation.

Numbers 14 presents Caleb as a man with a different spirit who followed the Lord faithfully. The sermon holds Caleb before the church as an example of courage, endurance, and readiness for kingdom work at any age.

Acts 6 presents Stephen as a servant whose life and death testified to worthy worship and faithful service. The sermon holds him up as a hero not only in martyrdom but in the way he lived.

Acts 5 warns that secret sin and spiritual pretense cannot be offered to the God of truth as acceptable worship. The deaths of Ananias and Sapphira call the church to honesty, repentance, and reverence before the Holy Spirit.

Psalm 24's question of who may ascend the hill of the Lord finds its answer in Christ alone, whose fulfilled righteousness makes believers acceptable worshipers as they serve him from love rather than mere obligation.

Using Cain and Abel, the message warns that growing up with believing parents, church attendance, and knowledge of God's Word cannot substitute for a regenerate heart, since an unbelieving heart enslaved to sin will eventually show its

Mary of Bethany shows the beauty of pouring out what is precious on Christ rather than spending life on lesser kingdoms. Her costly devotion points believers to waste their lives well in service to Christ and His body, the local church.