Seen in Secret
You'll hear why Jesus told people to keep their prayers and fasting hidden, and what it means that God notices the things you do when no one else is watching.
Scripture
Sermons on Matthew
37 sermons in the archive.
You Only Need One Approval
You'll hear why the deepest human drive to be seen and accepted can actually become the thing that keeps you from the one affirmation that lasts, and how the Lord's Prayer is Jesus' answer to that problem.
Giving Without an Audience
You'll hear why Jesus targets not the act of giving but the motive behind it, and walk away with a sharp question to ask yourself: when no one is watching, do you still give?
God Changes the Person, Not the Law
You'll see how two healings in Matthew 8 unlock the whole logic of the Bible: God never scrapped his laws or his promises, but instead sent Jesus to fulfill them by changing the people who could never keep them on their own.
Stop Chasing the Mountaintop
You'll hear why the most spiritually significant moment in the disciples' lives ended with a command not to repeat the experience, but to listen, and what that means for anyone who has ever felt like their faith needs a bigger feeling to be real.
Wilderness Time Is Not Wasted
You'll hear why the hard, empty seasons of life are not detours from spiritual growth but the very conditions that make it possible, and walk away with a concrete practice to build intentional rest into the next six weeks.
Whose Face Do You See?
You'll hear a direct challenge to the habit of sorting people into 'neighbors' and 'others,' and why Jesus identifies himself specifically with the people you'd least want at your door.
Joining Us in the Water
You'll hear why Jesus had no reason to be baptized yet stepped into the river anyway, and what his choice to identify with broken humanity means for the moments when you feel too far gone, too ordinary, or too weak to be of use to God.
Righteousness Redefined
You'll hear how Joseph's quiet decision to protect Mary's honor gets interrupted and reframed by God, and what it looks like when the life you've responsibly built gets asked to make room for something bigger.
Recognizing the Right Messiah
You'll hear why John the Baptist, who baptized Jesus, still sent disciples to ask 'are you really the one?' and what his doubt reveals about the gap between the Messiah we want and the one Scripture actually describes.
Repentance Changes Direction
You'll hear why repentance isn't just feeling sorry but actually turning around, and what it looks like to produce real fruit from that change rather than coasting on religious habit or family history.
Ready Without Obsessing
You'll hear why Jesus insisted his followers stay alert for his return without letting that alertness consume their lives, and what that balance actually looks like day to day.
Power That Loses by Winning
You'll hear why the church's attempts to advance God's kingdom through force and political power are a sign of losing, not winning, and what the actual growth of the kingdom has always looked like.
A Treasure Worth Everything
You'll hear Jesus's one-verse parable about a man who sells everything for a hidden treasure used to answer a question most churchgoers have quietly wondered: what exactly is the kingdom of God, and why does it matter more than anything else you're holding on to?
Seeing What We've Learned to Ignore
You'll come away with a sharper eye for the attitudes that make vulnerable people invisible, and a fresh angle on why the parable of the sheep and goats is less about earning salvation and more about what we fail to see right in front of us.
Forgive From What You've Received
You'll see why Jesus grounds the call to forgive not in what the other person deserves, but in the staggering debt that has already been canceled on your behalf, and what that shift in motivation actually makes possible.
Good Without Knowing It
You'll hear why the most important detail in this parable is that the people who did the right thing had no idea they were doing it, and what that means for how the Holy Spirit actually shapes a life.
Faithful Risk-Taking
You'll hear a fresh reading of the Parable of the Talents that shifts the focus from productivity to risk, and what it means to hold loosely the gifts you've been given rather than protecting them out of fear.
Preparation You Cannot Borrow
You'll think through why a life of faith is something that can't be handed off to someone else at the last moment, and what that means for how urgently you live right now.
Lead Without the Weight
You'll see how religious leaders in Jesus' time turned faith into an unbearable burden, and what that means for the ways you influence the people around you, whether or not you think of yourself as a leader.
Love Without Categories
You'll see how Jesus refused to be boxed in by religious categories, and what it looks like to love people across lines of deep disagreement without giving up on them or pretending those differences don't matter.
Everything Bears God's Image
You'll see how a trap set for Jesus becomes a teaching about who you actually belong to, and what it means to give back to God everything that carries his image, including yourself.
Rearrange Your Life Around Jesus
You'll hear why Jesus told a story about a king's wedding feast to challenge who gets into God's kingdom, and what it means to actually show up with the right heart rather than just going through the motions.
God Refuses to Give Up
You'll see how Jesus spent his final days trying to recover the very people plotting his death, and what that stubborn, relentless pursuit means for the places in your own life where you've withheld fruit.
Grace Beyond What's Earned
You'll hear why the workers who grumbled in this parable had a point by every human standard, and why that's exactly what makes God's generosity so disorienting and so freeing.
God Wastes Seed on Purpose
You'll hear why the parable of the sower is really about a recklessly generous God who keeps giving without calculating whether the ground is ready, and what that means for the places in your own life that still feel like hard or rocky soil.
Betrayal and the Cost of Grace
You'll hear why Judas's 30 pieces of silver is not just ancient history, and what it looks like when faith costs something versus when we've quietly turned Jesus into a transaction that works in our favor.
When God Sends His Son
You'll hear why Jesus called this parable the turning point of all human history, and what it means that God stopped sending messengers and sent his son instead.
Baptism as God's Work
You'll hear a honest account of why baptism matters beyond ritual obligation, including what it means that God's action in baptism holds even when yours falls short.
Good Without Knowing It
You'll hear why the most important detail in this parable is that the people who did the right thing had no idea they were doing it, and what that suggests about how faith actually shapes a life from the inside out.
Prepare Before It's Too Late
You'll work through what it actually means to be ready for what matters most, and walk away with a concrete question to sit with: what is your oil, and have you made a plan to store it up?
Love Without Exceptions
You'll hear why the two greatest commandments collapse into one practical question: who counts as your neighbor, and what do you do when God keeps putting someone in your path you'd rather ignore?
The Invitation Goes Everywhere
You'll hear why the parable of the wedding banquet is actually a story of radical inclusion, and what it means for you to carry an invitation to people on the margins rather than assume you already have a seat at the table.
Your Workplace Is Your Mission
You'll come away with a concrete, three-step practice for bringing genuine care to your coworkers, and a fresh reading of the Great Commission that makes you a participant in it right where you already are.
Words Without Roots
You'll hear why Jesus says 'I never knew you' to people who spoke and acted in his name, and what it actually means to build a life on something that holds when everything falls apart.
Choose the Gate First
You'll hear why the narrow gate in Jesus' teaching is not the finish line but the starting point, and what that means for anyone who feels like they have to get their life right before they can come to God.
God Keeps the Door Open
You'll hear why 'ask, seek, knock' isn't a vending machine formula but a progression of effort and trust, and walk away with a concrete way to identify one specific thing to bring to God this season.