Mark 11 · March 29, 2025
So Close
A Palm Sunday message on the triumphal entry, looking at how close the crowd came to recognizing Jesus and still missed Him.
Preaching & teaching
Hear me before you call me
Full messages, not a highlight reel. Below them, the Wednesday series I wrote and taught church-wide.
2 Peter 3 · September 14, 2025
The Good Fight
A message on spiritual warfare, preached during a week marked by national tragedy, working through Paul’s armor of God and the nature of the battle we&rsquore actually fighting.
2 Peter 3 · February 26, 2026
Ready and Waiting
How to wait for Christ’s return, picking up a series started in 1 and 2 Thessalonians and landing in 2 Peter 3, where Peter gives four answers to the question of what readiness actually looks like. Opens with a story from my 13 years in the military on what it means to actually be ready, not just say you are.
EQUIP
The series I wrote for the church
The same handful of subjects came up in counseling week after week. EQUIP was the answer: teach them church-wide on a Wednesday instead of one person at a time.
I wrote and taught the series for adults at Sonrise, tracking engagement and retention as it ran. The subject list is the part worth reading — it is where people actually live.
- 01Anxiety — understanding anxiety, tracing it from creation to redemption and showing how to apply the gospel to daily life instead of giving in to it.
- 02Bitterness — how to overcome bitterness by learning to recognize it and repay wrong with biblical love instead of grudges.
- 03Deception — A study on identifying the many forms of deception and replacing them with a practical, biblical commitment to truth-telling.
- 04Discontentment — diagnose discontentment as a heart issue and build real biblical contentment in its place.
- 05Faithfulness — defining faithfulness, offering three tests to measure your own, and helping you turn excuses into real ministry.
- 06Fear — conquering fear by learning to control it rather than be controlled by it, with biblical tests for when fear turns sinful.
- 07Forgiveness — what forgiveness involves, and how a forgiving spirit is crucial in our walk with God and our relationships with others.
- 08Grief — a biblical guide to grief that moves past the stages model, grounding comfort and growth in Scripture instead.
- 09Judgments — how to distinguish between rash judgment and godly discernment, with ten tactics and worksheets for judging by God’s standards instead of your own.
- 10Problems — facing life’s problems with confidence, showing that Christians are equipped to solve them by following God’s example.
- 11Self-image — replace humanistic self-esteem thinking with a biblical view of self-image, backed by practical exercises for growth.
- 12Selfishness — identifies selfishness as the root of sin and shows how to replace it with selfless, godly love.
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