Purpose in Christ

Pastor Bill Bush · Nov 25, 2024

Using Peter's denial and restoration as a lens, the sermon argues that failure in the Christian life need not be final. Unlike Judas, who rejected Jesus entirely, Peter always believed — he simply fell out of fear. The path forward requires three movements: honestly acknowledging our sin, genuinely accepting God's restoring love, and actively stepping back into the mission Jesus has called every believer to. Repentance, rightly understood, is not merely stopping the wrong direction but turning and going the right way — feeding the sheep, making disciples, and living fully on purpose with God.

Pastor Bill Bush · Oct 28, 2018

True worship begins when we honestly reckon with the vast gap between God's majesty and our smallness, and then marvel that the God who created billions of galaxies would still die to bring us into His presence. Colossians 1 declares that everything was created through Christ and for Christ, meaning worship is not merely an event we attend but a whole-life embrace of the truth that we were made by Jesus, for Jesus, through Jesus. When we reduce that purpose to 'made by God for good,' we make ourselves the judge of what is good, and our walk with God collapses the moment life gets hard.