The Village Church - Sermons

Bitterness creeps into our hearts and grows into resentment, unforgiveness, and hatred. It stagnates our sanctification, but with a perspective shift, the bitter becomes sweet and turns into resilience.

It was never promised that all our dreams would come true when we follow Jesus. We get intimacy with God, and not a life of ease. Suffering is normal, Jesus is good, and joy will break through.

God is advancing His Kingdom across the whole world, His power is behind it, and He uses His people to do it. But we are not alone. We have received His power through the Holy Spirit—the Helper and the Comforter—to carry out this work.

Jesus is the beginning and the end, and all things hold together in His hands. Any time, talent, or treasure is a gift from above. May we steward it all with generosity.

Finally, men, be watchful, stand firm in your faith, don't revert back to your boyhood ways, but act like men. Be strong and let everything you do be done out of love.

All wealth, power, relationships, and earthly accolades lead us into a false rule of our lives. Jesus calls us to give Him back the throne, that we may truly live as stewards in His kingdom.

A man gains wisdom with the fear of the Lord, but how does the wise man live his life? It is one marked by reverence, submission, and delight.

Proverbs contrasts the wise man against three other types—the fool, the simpleton, and the evil one. But the good news of the gospel is that no one is stuck in these lesser categories. And how might they make this move? By fearing the Lord.

In our society, masculinity seems to either be vilified or a cheap machismo is offered up in its place. So, we look to the Scriptures for what it means to be a man.

If Jesus of Nazareth actually rose from the dead, it should change everything about our lives. It would reframe our past, bring peace to our present, and set up a future hope that pulls us forward. The witnesses, His Word, and the Church declare, “He has risen!”

God knows everything, can do anything, and is everywhere in His fullness. He is who He is. The Great I Am—-the Lord.

We are always becoming and in motion. We are constantly unconstant, and to slow down is to die. But God never changes. His stability does not stagnate. He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

In the grand scope of eternity, we are hardly here at all. But our God is without beginning, without end, and without the succession of time.

God is uncreated. He is above all things. The expanse of His riches is immeasurable. His wisdom and knowledge are incomprehensible. His justice is perfect and His ways are untraceable. And still, He invites us to know Him.

Before the beginning, there was God. He had no starting place. He was, He is, and He is to come. We had no words for Him, so He defined Himself. His attributes call us to come and see that He is not like us, and this is good.

Jesus has not yet returned, but this is good news for those who wait. There is still time to follow, repent, learn, practice, and keep our lights burning in hopeful expectation of His arrival.

Thousands of students are getting baptized into the faith on American college campuses. Godly curiosity is blooming among Gen Zers. Around the world communities are turning to Jesus. God is on the move, but could we miss it?

From the miry mines of humanity, God has seen fit to excavate, clean, and begin the slow work of making us look more like His treasured Son. He chisels away what isn't needed and forms us into a people of His own possession.

All of humankind's greatest achievements pale in comparison to the work of our greater God. In mercy, He has called us to join Him in this work. Faith started this journey, and it will sustain us along the way.

God desires kids and students to know and worship Him. The harvest is plentiful! And if we are willing, we can perpetuate this gospel legacy, showing the next generation who their true Savior is.

We do not live as consumers of divine goods, but as priests on duty offering God a sacrifice of praise. We will proclaim His excellencies for generations to come.

God loves the people of the world and has a strategy to reach them. God made peace between us and Himself and has entrusted us to bring the gospel to the world as ministers of His reconciliation.

Racism is rooted in sin and an affront to the "Imago Dei" established by God in humanity. The only antidote to our checkered past and our broken present is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

We believe and declare that every human is made in the image of God and has dignity, value, and worth. We advocate for human life and see others not as commodities or enemies, but as God's image bearers.

Jesus offers the abundant life. He desires for humans to flourish, and His people are His plan to that end. When trials come, Jesus' plan holds fast. He uses all things for our good and calls us to open-handed surrender.

Surveying the injustice before him, the prophet Habakkuk questions God. How can this evil persist with God on His throne? The Lord assures Habakkuk that a plan is in place and He is at work among His people.

The pronouncement of God's glorious plan and the culmination of all His prophecies came first to the shepherds. His kingdom would be different and this great, scandalous exchange of death for life was first offered to the outcast.

Overcome with her new position as the mother of our Lord, Mary sings her Magnificat to God. She chooses worship over worry, humility over pride, and remembrance over forgetfulness, modeling to us the path of ever-increasing joy.

It can be easy to think that Jesus showed up “all of a sudden” to be Messiah, perform miracles, die, and resurrect, but He has always been. He is the eternal, active agent holding all things together by the Word of His power. He was with God from the beginning, and, even in the womb, He was Lord.

As we read and recount the story of Christmas, it is apparent that God chooses the meek and the lowly to be recipients of His blessing. He uses the most unexpected people to set in motion the most extraordinary story ever told.

Ninety percent of our culture's current messaging is bent to the negative, culminating in an “age of anxiety.” But God offers us a joy detached from life's circumstances and a peace that holds and guards us forever.

We are passionate and intentional about lost people coming to faith in Jesus and churches being planted in the cities of greatest need. This weekend we commissioned the Youngs to go plant a church in west Fort Worth, Texas.

Because of Christ, we regard no one according to their flesh, but see God's image in them. As ministers of reconciliation, we must never forget that His arms are not too short to save whomever He wishes.

Jesus is referred to as “Lord” in Scripture 750 times. It is His most frequent title and His most subversive. In the Roman empire, Christians resisted Caesar's perverse “family values” and instead lived by countercultural ethics and morals, recognizing Jesus “is the head of all rule and authority.”

All authority belongs to God. All government authorities are mere stewards of His authority. So we as children of God and temporary citizens of earth seek to obey the law, do good in our cities, and push against the darkness of our day.

We don't have to make sense of or master every topic. If we can master this one truth, we can make a difference in this world—that the gospel of Jesus Christ is the hope for the whole world.

The building of an empire is the search for a “God-less Eden.” It leads us to worship selfishness, wealth, violence, and oppression.

There is no other leader in history who has leveraged all power, privilege, and position for the good of humanity like Jesus. But how do we rest in Him when He isn't on the ballot?

The world is being held hostage by evil forces to such a degree, that it can only be freed by a radical in-breaking of God. In our day of trouble, it will not be baby Jesus who comes to rescue us, but “Christus Victor”—Jesus, the warrior.

Without deep relationships and a devotion to reach those far from God, our unique gifts, wirings, and placements terminate on ourselves and we become as stagnant and lifeless as the Dead Sea. There is a way that feels right but leads to bondage and decay. God's way is a promise of life and freedom.

It is easy for us in the West to think we have no idols while disregarding the worship we give to comfort, approval, control, and power. The gospel stands as the ever-present reminder that we serve a living God and only He deserves our worship.

The unique, God-given picture of the future is one of every tribe, tongue, and nation worshiping face-to-face with Jesus. It will be a great gathering of the saints—a people purified, perfect, without division, and without shame.

After a long day of ministry, Jesus called the disciples to take a boat across the water and promised to meet them on the other side. Knowing a storm was heading their way, Jesus set the disciples up to behold one of the greatest miracles of their lives. He showed Himself as supernatural, persona...

We see our brokenness as a curse, but it can also be a blessing, a pathway to dependence on God alone. In Exodus, God works in the ordinary and mundane to bring about His purposes. He doesn't need a special set of skills found only in Moses, only Moses' obedience and willingness. In our brokennes...

To be Jesus' disciples, we must unfollow ourselves, give up the world, and follow Him. It won't be easy, but it will be beautiful.