Worship

Kicking off the Essentials series, Pastor Hunter Jones preaches from Exodus 34, where God reveals His own name and character to Moses after Israel had distorted Him into a golden calf. The sermon argues that the smallest distortion in our view of God leads to major distortions in how we live, so we must let God define Himself rather than shaping Him into a comfortable idol. God reveals Himself as the self-existent "I Am," triune, overflowing in chesed (loyal, covenant) love, and perfectly just. Rightly seeing God produces the same response Moses had: falling down in humble, overwhelmed worship.

Every human being is built to worship something, whether it's God, money, status, pleasure, or approval. Only Jesus, the God who spoke creation into existence and holds it all together, is actually worthy of that worship, and placing it in Him is the only thing that can hold our lives together when everything else is falling apart.