Entries Tagged 'Sin'
Even Batman Needs Saving (August 24, 2026)
Tonight’s Steadfast:
When corruption seems everywhere, it is tempting to imagine that the world just needs a few good people willing to play Batman and set things right. But Psalm 14:3–4 says everyone has turned aside, forcing a harder question: What happens when the same sin we fight in others begins corrupting our own good intentions?
Don't Just Clear the Light (August 23, 2026)
Sunday night’s message:
It’s a relief when a warning light disappears—unless the problem under the hood is still there. In Matthew 9:35–36, Jesus heals sickness, preaches the good news of the kingdom, and looks with compassion on people who are helpless and without a shepherd. What does his compassion say about the immediate burdens we bring to him and the deeper need we cannot afford to ignore?
Unifying Division (August 3, 2026)
Tonight’s Steadfast:
Babel feels counterintuitive: if God wants to bring people into peaceful unity, doesn’t the consequence He applies to the tower building effort actually work against what He intends? Not necessarily.
Reciprocation of What? (July 20, 2026)
This week’s Steadfast:
Maybe you had a childhood toy that took your voice and sent it back distorted and amplified. Small choices work the same way in Proverbs 3:34-35 — God reciprocates what we put out into the world, amplifying our foolishness so we see it clearly, or honoring our wisdom in ways that matter eternally.
The Real Dirt Jesus Came For (July 19, 2026)
Sunday night’s message:
Most of us know our own dirt isn’t the curated kind—and suspect it may be too much to clean up. In Matthew 9, Jesus walks past everyone with the polished-for-consumption sob story and stops at a tax collector’s booth, a man whose sin was public knowledge, and says simply, “Follow me.”
Be the Mouser God Made You (July 13, 2026)
Tonight’s Steadfast:
When we try to live by “Don’t Be Evil,” we find that we end up being evil in the end. There’s a better way.
What You Really Need: The Deeper Healing (July 12, 2026)
This week’s sermon:
We scramble to fix what’s broken, certain we know the one restoration that matters most. But when friends lower a paralyzed man before Jesus in Matthew 9, desperate only to walk, the first words he hears are “Take heart, my son, your sins are forgiven.” Do we trust Jesus enough to receive what he says we actually need?
Don’t Be Evil Won’t Avoid Evil
“Don’t Be Evil.” If you’ve followed the tech industry long enough, you know that used to be Google’s motto. Whatever happened to that Google? We could ask that of our attempts at mere avoidance of evil, too.
"Don't Be Evil" Leads to Evil (July 6, 2026)
This week’s Steadfast:
When we try to live by “Don’t Be Evil,” we find that we end up being evil in the end. There’s a better way.
Recognize and Respond (July 5, 2026)
This week’s sermon:
We’ve all known someone’s birthday was coming, kept it in the back of our minds, and then realized two weeks too late that we never said a word—recognized it, but never responded. In Matthew 8, the demons who meet Jesus call him “Son of God” with more clarity than almost anyone else in the Gospel, yet that recognition leads somewhere unexpected and deeply unsettling.




