When Maturity is Late

How is your spiritual digestion? What are you taking in? Is it being distributed to your soul? Is it feeding love or something else?

Sermons, Whole Bible in Ten PagesLiving HopeOctober 7, 2018

When God Is Dull

In a situation of political turmoil and marginalization, when people are frightened for their futures and pressured by the world to conform, why would the author of Hebrews choose to drag an obscure Old Testament figure like Melchizedek into the conversation?

Sermons, Whole Bible in Ten PagesLiving HopeSeptember 30, 2018Stress, persecution, DECISIONS, Hebrews, Goals

Confidence to be Saved

How can I know if I am saved when I feel like an outsider in church? How can I overcome my lack of confidence in my salvation?

Sermons, Whole Bible in Ten PagesLiving HopeSeptember 16, 2018assurance, Confidence, salvation, doubt, Hebrews, Old Testament

Confidence to Draw Near

Christians in our culture are under increasing pressure to abandon our confession of faith. In times like these, how can we preserve our emotional stamina?

Sermons, Whole Bible in Ten PagesLiving HopeSeptember 9, 2018Faith, persecution, perseverance, emotions

Yielding to God

In an operating room everyone present knows what needs to happen and how it's going to happen, but what happens if the surgeon doesn't show up?

Sermons, Whole Bible in Ten PagesLiving HopeSeptember 2, 2018

Depending on God

We all depend every day on structures - from chairs, to bridges, to worldviews - that we barely think about.

But what happens when the structures we depend on begin to disintegrate beneath us? Is there anything sure we can build our lives on?

Sermons, Whole Bible in Ten PagesLiving HopeAugust 26, 2018Scripture, Inerrancy, Gospel, OLD TESTAMENT, FAITH, Security, hope, Hebrews

Hearing from God

In our age of competing truth claims we wonder if anyone is telling us the truth.

The Bible claims that God is its source and that it carries God's authority. Why in this day and age would we open this book and trust it?

Sermons, Whole Bible in Ten PagesLiving HopeAugust 19, 2018

The Evangelist's Persuasion

In our culture we treat those with differing ideas as combatants, and our discourse goes nowhere.

How we present our case matters. Our passion for the gospel matters, but it is not enough. Our passion will fail to change hearts unless it is accompanied by persuasion.

SermonschicograceadminAugust 12, 2018EVANGELISM, Communication, Love, Gospel

The Evangelist's Power

Evangelism has the power to transform lives and communities. We romanticize evangelists of the past, but we are discouraged in the present. How can we experience the power of the gospel today?

SermonsLiving HopeAugust 5, 2018EVANGELISM, Love, Gospel

The Evangelist's Poise

What does the Old Testament story of Naaman the Syrian and Elisha the prophet have to do with evangelism?

SermonschicograceadminJuly 31, 2018EVANGELISM

Heaven

Pop culture images of heaven make it look like a place of eternal boredom. But the Bible reveals something very different - a new and vibrant kind of life.

Sermons, A Christian's Living HopeLiving HopeJuly 22, 2018

Access

What does a promise God made to Abraham thousands of years ago have to do with the way we pray today?

Sermons, A Christian's Living HopeLiving HopeJuly 15, 2018