Sermons from January 2026
Good News Changes Everything
Luke24:13-27 — This Sunday, we continue our journey through Luke and Acts, exploring the story of God’s Good News about Jesus. From the very beginning, Luke has shown us that this Good News is not always what we expect. It starts with Jesus’ birth and the announcement of His kingdom, moves through His ministry to the overlooked and marginalized, and challenges the world’s assumptions about who belongs in God’s reign. As we followed Jesus toward Jerusalem, we saw His teaching,…
GOOD NEWS OF GREAT JOY: The Good News focuses on Jesus’ death
Luke 22:7-23 – Although Luke only wrote two of the New Testament’s books (Luke and Acts), his pair occupies as much space as Paul’s thirteen letters. A good reason motivates the volume of Luke’s writing – he wrote to affirm Theophilus’ conviction about the Good News concerning Jesus (Luke 1:1-4). That purpose means Luke’s writings offer insight into the meaning and application of the gospel (“gospel” and “good news” translate the same Greek word euangelion). We have been moving through the…
Newness of Life
2 Corinthians 5:17 -The Bible opens with a compact and dark narrative: God creates a world full of order and life that humankind quickly and completely corrupts, supplanting its rich goodness with disorder and death (Genesis 1-11). That grim scene introduces a long account of God’s slowly developing plan to heal humanity’s evil and restore His creation. God’s plan introduces a hope that receives a memorable expression in the prophet Isaiah’s writings – he calls it “a new heavens and…