Obedience

Pastor Hunter Jones · Jun 22, 2026

True worship is not simply an emotional experience we seek on a Sunday morning — it is the culmination of a daily life cycle with God. In Psalm 119, the psalmist models six repeating stages: engaging God's Word, walking in obedience, enduring war (resistance), waiting on the Lord in dependence, experiencing the 'wow' of God's grace showing up, and pouring out worship. Each completed cycle sends us back to the Word at a deeper level, producing praise that is genuine, powerful, and unstoppable.

Pastor Bill Bush · Feb 26, 2026

Drawing from Nehemiah chapter 1, Pastor Bill teaches that every believer has been called to a mission, not merely to attend church. True spiritual grit — the perseverance to stick to that calling when it gets hard, scary, or costly — starts with three movements: defining reality from God's perspective (understanding who God is and who He says you are), dreaming the preferred future (imagining what faithful obedience could look like), and developing the pathway (taking the costly step from comfortable to called, just as Nehemiah risked his prestigious position to pursue God's mission).

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Mar 25, 2024

Using the strange Old Testament account of Balaam and his talking donkey in Numbers 22, Pastor Daniel argues that God is always speaking to His people — primarily through Scripture — and that our inability to hear Him is rarely God's silence but rather our own rebellion, distraction, or willingness to rationalize compromise. When we walk in disobedience, God loves us enough to frustrate our path as a whisper calling us back. The path to hearing His voice again runs through humility, asking forgiveness of those we've hurt, and genuine repentance — turning around and aligning our will with His.

Pastor Bill Bush · Oct 25, 2023

Drawing from Acts 17:16, where Paul's spirit was provoked by the idols filling Athens, Pastor Matt Rose argues that God is continuously speaking to His people, but most of us are too distracted, guilt-ridden, or passive to hear Him. Hearing God's voice requires three deliberate movements: accepting your current placement rather than being paralyzed by an expectation gap or shame from the past; aligning your thoughts to God's thoughts through prayer and His Word; and finally, acting in obedience on whatever conviction He has placed within you — just as Paul did when he reasoned in the synagogue and the public square.

Pastor Bill Bush · Jul 10, 2023

Using Jonah chapter 1 as his text, Pastor Bill shows that when God calls us to something hard, uncomfortable, or costly, our natural impulse is to run — and we always run toward strange, dangerous, and destructive places. But God is already everywhere we flee, so running is both futile and costly: it creates chaos in our own lives and in the lives of those around us. The only way out of the chaos is to stop, turn, and trust the God who is not waiting to punish us but to bring us back.

Pastor Brent Hatchett · Feb 13, 2023

Drawing from Genesis 22, Pastor Brent (speaking in the voice of Abraham) argues that God is less interested in spectacular faith than in steady, obedient faith. Abraham's inconsistencies — from fathering Ishmael to lying about Sarah in Egypt — never stopped God from being faithful, and that track record of faithfulness is precisely what gave Abraham the courage to obey when God asked him to sacrifice Isaac. Consistent faith means continuously saying yes to God, trusting that the God who provided in the past will prove Himself as Jehovah Jireh — the Lord who provides — again.

Pastor Bill Bush · Jun 24, 2019

Drawing on the Parable of the Two Sons in Matthew 21, Pastor Bill argues that genuine Christian faith is not measured by church attendance, biblical knowledge, or outward religiosity, but by a heart that continually repents — that is, turns away from self-directed living and back toward God's mission of loving and pointing people to Jesus. Like the first son who initially refused but later obeyed, real faith means honestly owning our disobedience, whether driven by fear, distraction, or comfortable tolerance, and choosing to turn wholeheartedly toward the Father's vineyard today.

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Jan 14, 2019

Drawing from Jesus's encounter with the lame man at the Pool of Bethesda in John 5, Pastor Daniel argues that experiencing your best year is not primarily about circumstances changing around you — it is about your willingness to stop making excuses, take personal responsibility, and obey what God is already asking of you. True transformation begins when we stop blaming others, invite Jesus into our most uncomfortable places, and trust that the same Spirit who raised Christ from the grave is at work making us genuinely new from the inside out.

Pastor Linn Winters · Jun 4, 2018

Pastor Linn Winters draws from Luke 5 to press a crucial distinction: being a Christian (a label) versus being a follower of Jesus Christ (a direction and a commitment). Using the story of Simon Peter's miraculous catch of fish, he shows that following Jesus will always feel like fishing in the middle of the day — risky, sacrificial, and counterintuitive. True followers are those who, having seen Jesus' faithfulness, respond to His invitations not because they fully understand them, but because of who He is. The sermon calls every believer to move past selective obedience and endless wrestling with God, and to say: 'If anybody else were asking, I wouldn't do it — but because it's You, I'm in.'