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.
Topic
Sermons on Prayer
21 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.
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.
When Wisdom Becomes Foolishness
You'll see how Solomon's story is less about spectacular moral collapse and more about a slow, incremental drift that began with a divided heart long before anyone noticed, and why that pattern is easy to miss in your own life.
Love What You Cannot
You'll hear how David mourned the man who spent years trying to kill him, and why that impossible act points to something you can't manufacture on your own but can ask for.
Loved into the World
You'll come away with a clearer picture of what it actually means to live as a Christian in a world that doesn't share your values: not by retreating from it, not by fighting it, but by loving it the way God does, at real cost to yourself.
Sing Something New
You'll hear why genuine worship isn't repetition but response, and how paying attention to what God is doing right now in your life can become the raw material for a song only you can sing.
Let Go and Sleep
You'll hear how an ancient psalm about enemies and sleeplessness points toward the same move Jesus and Peter both made: offering blessing instead of judgment, and how that practice might actually give you rest tonight.
Talking Back to God
You'll hear how the final chapter of Lamentations transforms one-way grief into a genuine two-way conversation with God, and why being allowed to push back, argue, and even accuse God is a feature of faith rather than a failure of it.
Honest Prayer, Open Hands
You'll see how Jesus prayed in Gethsemane with full honesty and full submission at the same time, and what that means for the prayers you've been holding that haven't been answered.
Where Lament Finds Its Home
You'll hear how the human need to belong can lead us toward exclusion or toward God, and why crying out honestly in prayer is what turns isolation into praise.
Pray for People You Struggle With
You'll hear how Paul's opening lines to a divided church model something harder than it sounds: praying for specific people, including the ones who frustrate you, with genuine joy and thanks.
God Who Can Be Moved
You'll hear an argument that God genuinely enters conversation with humans, limits himself to make real relationship possible, and can actually be persuaded by your prayers — not as a performance for your benefit, but as a sign of how much he wants to know you.
Stop, Then Choose
When you face a decision you can't see clearly, this sermon gives you permission to stop, wait, and trust that guidance will come before you move.
Keep Asking Anyway
You'll hear why the widow in Jesus's parable keeps showing up to a courtroom that has already failed her, and what her persistence reveals about who God is when your prayers seem to go unanswered.
Bloom Where God Plants You
You'll hear why Jeremiah 29:11 means something harder and richer than it's usually made to mean, and what it looks like to trust God's goodness when he has led you into the very situation you'd most want to escape.
When Fasting Misses the Point
You'll hear why sincere devotion to God always turns outward toward people who are hurting, and what it looks like when religious practice becomes a way of avoiding that responsibility rather than fulfilling it.
Silence Before the Next Thing
You'll see how Jesus consistently slipped away from the noise before and after intense seasons of ministry, and what his habit of solitary prayer suggests about why your own connection to God might feel thin when life gets chaotic.
Wrestling Changes You
You'll see how Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane broke every rule about hiding pain, and what it looks like to bring your rawest, most honest self to God instead of performing calm you don't feel.
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.
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.