St. Paul (Peoria) | Pastor Deveraux Hubbard

The Bottom Line: What Life Is Really About

What do you do when you finally get the thing you've been chasing, and your soul still says there has to be more? In this message: - Why the things we build to give life meaning always leave us asking "what else is there" - What the Teacher means by "fear God" and why it's not what most of us think - How God's seeing differs from surveillance (and why that distinction changes everything) - Why the cross is the place where the Judge absorbed the verdict that belonged to us - What it looks like to finally stop performing and actually live

A Father's Legacy

Proverbs 20:7 makes a quiet but disruptive claim: the most durable thing any of us leaves behind is not what we accomplished. It's how we walked. Not what we intended. Not what we said we valued. The actual direction of our daily life. This message confronts something most of us avoid. We spend enormous energy managing outcomes we can't control while giving very little attention to the one thing we can — the direction of our walk. And direction, not intention, determines destination.

Is this All there Is?

When life feels empty, faith anchors us in what endures.

Parenting on Purpose

Long before a child can read Scripture, the world is already shaping how they see themselves, how they handle pain, and what they believe about who they are. Ancient Israel understood something most modern parents have forgotten: the home was always the primary formation institution, not the synagogue, not the school.  In this message: - Why the question is never "are they being formed?" but "by what?" - What Proverbs 20:11 reveals about children before any formal moral instruction begins - How consecrating a child is different from controlling their outcome - Why discipline disconnected from the gospel collapses into either permissiveness or anger - How the Father in Luke 15 models what faithful formation actually looks like Before you correct this week, watch. Watch how your child plays. Watch what breaks their heart. Ask not who you need them to be, but who God already formed them to be.

God's Got More in Store for You

What do you do when God has given you everything you wanted -- and it still isn't enough? That's the question sitting at the center of 2 Samuel 12. David was at the peak of his career -- king of Israel, military victories stacking up, a covenant promise from God himself. He had more than most people could imagine. And it still wasn't enough. In this message: - Why God sometimes blesses you with things that are bigger than you can handle on your own - How David's sin followed the same progressive pattern that traps us today -- and why it started at the top, not the bottom - What it means that the same Nathan who delivered God's covenant promise was the one who delivered God's correction - Why God is able to deal with your sin without destroying you - The reserve God holds in store when you think he's given you everything he's got If you've ever felt like you've exhausted God's patience -- or like your failures have cancelled out his promises -- this message is for you!