Something has gone terribly wrong with the world. Everyone who has ever hoped in a politician, gotten sick, wept at injustice, become angry at evil, tried to help someone, or just felt like giving up knows it and despite all the wars that have been fought, money that has been spent, and good works done [...]

This week, we are in week 12 of our 13 week series Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series. This week we are studying the doctrine of stewardship and fact that all that we have (time, talent, treasure) is ultimately entrusted to our stewardship by God. This issue will be dealt with in greater thoroughness when [...]

Sadly, worship has too often been considered merely a style of music or event such as a Sunday church service. And, while worship is big enough to include these things it is by no means reduced only to them. In many ways, to speak of worship is to speak of all of life in its [...]

This sermon blog is intended to supplement the sermon Church: God Sends as part of the ongoing series Doctrine: What Christians should believe.

The big idea in the sermon is that Jesus is God come into human culture as a missionary. And, that Jesus earthly missional ministry was empowered by God the Holy Spirit. This is [...]

This article is a summary of the content from my sermon on the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from death as part of the Doctrine: What Christians should believe preaching series. Much of the content of this chapter is from Chapter (Did Jesus rise from death?) of the book Dr. Gerry Breshears and I [...]

This article is a summary of the content from my sermon on the atoning death of Jesus Christ, titled Cross: God Dies, as part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe preaching series. Much of this content is from Chapter 6 (What Did Jesus Accomplish on the Cross?) of the book Dr. Gerry Breshears [...]

This week (Sunday, May 11) I preached the sermon Incarnation: God Comes as part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe sermon series. This post is intended to help serve those in Mars Hill Church and those listening or watching online who wish to learn more about the doctrine.

Much of the content posted here is [...]

This week (Sunday, May 4) I preached the sermon Covenant: God Pursues as part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe sermon series. This post is intended to help serve those in Mars Hill who are discussing the doctrine in their Community Groups, and also serve anyone else who desires to study the issue further.

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This week (Sunday, April 27) I preached the sermon Fall: God Judges as part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe sermon series.

Before examining the fateful day that forever altered the course of human history in Genesis 3, we must first examine that which preceded it. In Genesis 1–2 and related biblical texts we [...]

This week (Sunday, April 20) my sermon for the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe sermon series examined the doctrine of imago dei, which means “image of God” in Latin. The question of human life is among the most important because it has implications for seemingly everything, from theology to sociology, history, biology, psychology, and the [...]