Sermons

What does it take to lead your unarmed people against a highly fortified city with arguably the worst battle plan ever conceived? It takes a God who is bigger than the walls you face.

Our lives are filled with hundreds of very ordinary moments, interrupted occasionally by something extraordinary (sometimes good, sometimes not). God works powerfully, albeit quite differently, in both the ordinary moments and the extraordinary ones.

Paul wrote two letters to two churches, more or less at the same time, and yet the both paint a very different picture of Jesus.

What does godly faithfulness look like and how is it essential to the other eight characteristics listed in Galatians 5?

Some fruit grows quickly, others take a long time. How does the Spirit cultivate patience in our lives and where does God desire that patience to be applied?

For many, gentleness is the least desirable of the Spirit’s fruit. We often equate gentleness with being passive, a push over, a doormat. What is God’s understanding of gentleness and why does He care if we have it?

Perhaps the most ambiguous of all the Spirit’s fruit. The concept of goodness seems so nebulous and often relative to a particular situation. What does God have in mind when it comes to goodness and why is it so important to Him?

We all desire that sense of calm confidence in the midst of life’s turmoil, but peace is often illusive to many of us. How does God’s Spirit bring the peace to our life that is so difficult to find on our own?