God as Father - Single Sermons

The Harvest and the Harvester - Plowing in Hope

Synopsis: The plowing is not only producing a harvest. It is producing the ploughman. You are not just anything — you are a living stone being prepared in the quarry of ordinary life, fitted by grace for the eternal temple. The harvest is not only something we will enter. The harvest is something we are becoming. Titus 2:11-14

Plowing In Hope - Plowing in Hope

Synopsis: The grace that appeared is the grace that trains. Jesus wore the crown of thorns to free us to work as we were made to work — and the Hebrew word for that work is the same word used for worship. We are priest-gardeners, made in the image of the Maker, plowing in every lawful calling until the Incarnation that ran downward has run us all, all the way back up. Sermon Text: Titus 2:11-14

Our Hope is Jesus - Plowing in Hope

Synopsis: The grace of God has appeared as the true sun of the world. The light that rose at Easter climbs higher and will not set until it has touched everything. We work in that light — and that seeing is the ground of our hope and the reason we plow. Sermon Text: Titus 2:11-14

God as Father - Single Sermons

Sermon Text: Romans 8:12-17

Cultural Warfare - Single Sermons

Synopsis: We are reminded of our identity as citizens of a kingdom not of this world. From the culture of this kingdom we ought to wage war against our sinful passions, and the culture of the world, to the glory of God. Sermon Text: 1 Peter 2:11-12