Surrender to Christ

Pastor Jeff Reinhart · May 18, 2026

Drawing from Ecclesiastes 12, Pastor Jeff Reinhart warns that life moves faster than we realize, and if we keep postponing a wholehearted pursuit of God, we will drift into bitterness rather than growing better. The remedy is to 'remember' God — not merely to think about Him, but to pay attention to Him with the intention of obeying. Practically, this means developing a healthy fear of God (beholding Him for who He truly is), learning to obey Him by trusting His love rather than trying to earn it, and genuinely knowing Him as Lord and Savior so that our time, talent, treasure, and testimony are invested in His eternal kingdom.

Pastor Hunter Jones · Sep 14, 2025

Every human being is hard-wired to worship — to love something so much that we sacrifice for it and surrender to it. The question is never whether we worship, but what or who receives that worship. Pastor Hunter Jones uses the Transfiguration and the Triumphal Entry in Luke to show that Jesus has fully revealed Himself as the God of creation, the One who holds all things together. When we misplace our worship in career, status, pleasure, or relationships, life unravels. But when we surrender our worship to Jesus — starting in gathered, sung praise and extending into every area of daily life — He alone is able to hold us together.

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Mar 18, 2024

Drawing on the bronze serpent in Numbers 21 and Jesus' explanation of it in John 3, Pastor Daniel argues that God's redemptive plan has never been required to fit neatly inside human logic. Just as the Israelites were healed by simply looking at a bronze snake on a pole — an act that made no rational sense — so every person today is invited to be born again by looking to Jesus in faith. Intellectual assent alone is insufficient; true belief is an active, weight-bearing trust that surrenders the whole life to Christ.

Pastor Bill Bush · Dec 25, 2021

Pastor Bill challenges listeners to move beyond the comfortable routines and distractions that can hollow out Christmas and instead place genuine faith in Jesus — the Savior whose birth, life, death, and resurrection are the whole point of the season. Drawing on the contrasting responses of King Herod and the wise men, he argues that clinging to personal sovereignty mirrors Herod's futile war with God, while surrendering to Jesus in worship — as the wise men did — is the only path to real peace, joy, and eternal life.

Pastor Scott Rodgers · Jul 1, 2019

Drawing from the Parable of the Hidden Treasure in Matthew 13:44, Pastor Scott Rogers shows that the parable holds two complementary truths: Jesus is the priceless treasure worth surrendering everything to possess, and you are the treasure God gave everything to redeem. Because humankind is the crown of God's creation — stamped with the Imago Dei — and because everything pales in comparison to Christ, the sermon calls listeners to respond not with vague future commitment but with a decisive, moment-by-moment choice to be all in with God.