Hope on the Beach Church

#GodsGrace

“He gives more grace than your sin could ever muster up. That's the gospel. Our hope is not that we've been good enough. Our hope is that Jesus has been good enough for us. Our hope is not that we have never wandered away. Our hope is that Jesus came to seek and save the lost. Our hope is not that we have never sinned against God or for one another. Our hope is that Jesus shed his blood for the forgiveness of sins.”

#GraceOverGuilt

“You know, Christians struggle with sin. We pass rumors. We regret what we have spoken. We need forgiveness every day, so this is us right here. And the danger is becoming comfortable with sin, and and that what happens is that we make excuses and refuse God's direction. But there's good news. Jesus Christ came for us sinners because we all sin and fall short of God's glory. Jesus speaks forgiveness to us. That's why all of this that I've said right now, his warning doesn't bring us to despair, it brings us to repentance and faith in Jesus.”

#GraceForEveryone

“But notice this. Rahab had a past, and it wasn't a pretty one. She was a prostitute, like it says in scripture. She... Yet God's love and mercy reached her the point even now, she's in the genealogy of our savior. That's the gospel. That's much how he... How much he loves us. God's grace isn't reserved for people with impressive backgrounds. It isn't reserved for people who have everything figured out. No. It isn't reserved only for people who have lived perfect lives. If it were, none of us would qualify. Rahab's story reminds us that God is merciful to sinners.”

#ChristLikeLove

“If I recognize my place in Christ, how in the world could you explain treating someone poorly that you've come across in your life. How could you possibly pick favorites? How could you possibly cater someone that you wanna elevate and ignore those who may need what you have. Let me tell you in a word, just like we sang, we won't. We won't. We will not turn our backs on anyone because Christ didn't turn his back on us.”

#RunToGod

“And when we... We will fall into temptation, but unlike Adam and Eve who ran and hid, don't run and hide. When you're tempted, run toward God. When you're tempted and and when you fail, run to God. And when you're ashamed, run to God. When you're weak, run toward him. The answer to temptation is not to run away from God, but to draw close to God because James would write later on that resist the devil, he'll flee from you. Come near to God, and he will come near to you.”

#DoTheWord

“as you leave here today, don't say I heard a good sermon. I heard the word. Let's say I will do the word. I will do the word today. Listen patiently to the person who annoys you. Hold your tongue when you wanna strike back and love your neighbor because God loves you. Maybe today God has shown you something through his word. If God is telling you to forgive, then you need to forgive. If God is telling you to repent, need to repent. If God is telling you to surrender, then surrender. Trust him. If God is telling you to follow him, then follow him. You're forgiven. You're free. Go live out the word that has saved your souls.”

#FaithOverFear

“Trust him more. It's not about proving your strength. It's about proving his strength. That's what they're here for. Perseverance. That's a stable faith. That's an unshakable faith. That's a trust no matter what faith. I got a new brother sitting here today. Jason came by this week. This guy, fantastic story of what I'm talking about. a testimony that he shared of following God blindly. And just doing what God said made no sense. Boy's got more guts than I got. But he's right where God wants him to be, and we're gonna try to help him follow what God wants him to do.”

#ChristTookItAll

“At the cross, Jesus took it all. Sin and death, he entered into it. He went into the grave, and three days later, he walked out of the tomb. The storm of God's judgment fell on Christ. He took it so that you and I can stand forgiven. So our confidence isn't everything in my life is going to turn out exactly how I want. Our confidence is in Christ, died and risen. Christ has stood in my place. I belong to him. He lives. His will. Death will not get the final word on my life or yours as a believer.”

#SavedByGrace

“we have a savior who's in our boat. And like Noah, whom we talked about two weeks ago, his whole family was safe in the ark. We too are safe with with Jesus in our boat. Only those who believe in him will not perish but have eternal life. And here's the really good news. He does doesn't he doesn't love us while we're in the boat just confused. He the Bible says he he loves us while we are still sinners. Romans five eight. And Jesus proved how much he loved us when he died on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins. And on the third day, he woke up from death to bring peace to our hearts. And the grace mere miracle of all is that Jesus is in our boat to bring us to heaven.”

#RunToChrist

“The message of Jonah one isn't simply stop running from God or he'll send a storm. The message is deeper. You cannot outrun God who pursues you with love and mercy, who cares for you. Jonah ran from God and found out that God was there on the ship working in the hearts of pagan sailors. He's working right now on us too. We're the ones who wandered. Jesus was the one who came looking for us. We are the rebellious ones now. Jesus was the obedient son. We deserve judgment. Jesus took our judgment upon himself. So when the storms come, we don't have to run away. We run to Christ because God's will prevails, period.”

#GospelIsRefuge

“The gospel isn't become strong enough to survive the storm. The gospel is that Christ has died for you, that Christ has risen for you. And because he's died and rose for you, your sins are forgiven, and they are no more. And they have been separated from you as far as the East is from the West. Again and again as you sin and confess and are absolved again and again because though you are not enough, he is. That's the refuge. That's the that's not our performance, not our preparation, not our ability to hold everything together, but Christ alone.”

#JesusIsTheDoor

“``And Jesus says, I am the door. Whoever enters through me will be saved. Where else would you find forgiveness of sins than other than Jesus in the cross? Jesus says, he who believes in me will live even if he dies. Do you believe this? Can I ask it again? Jesus said, he who believes in me, even though he dies, will live. Do you believe this? But there's more good news. Your eternal life doesn't start when you die. It started when you believed. You're gonna live forever. Your body may die, this tent, but your soul's living forever.”

#RelationshipNotReligion

“``I don't want you to get confused because you look at the size of these bibles and you think, how am I gonna know all of that truth? I can't know all that truth. Sometimes, I can even read it, and I glazed over what I read. So how am I gonna know all this truth? it's not what's written in this book. It's who it's written about. It's not a religion. It's not a practice. It's an experience. It's a relationship.”

#GuiltyButSavedByJesus

“``And the point is this, we are the woman in this story. We truly are guilty in the eyes of God. We've been caught in the very act of our sins, and we're helpless and unable to bring change in our lives. And we are doomed unless someone steps in and has grace and mercy upon us and that then that person is Jesus Christ. We are condemned by our conscience. We're condemned by our guilt. And sometimes, we're condemned by other people who say, you know, you've done this. And just when we are about to be condemned in sinners, Jesus steps in and he says, let me take your sins to the cross and die for you.”

#EternalLifeNotComfort

“``People then and now wanted wanted a bread king. But Jesus came to give you something far better. He came to give eternal life. He came to die on the cross for the forgiveness of sins to save people from hell. And too often, we only think about the red part. And we're hoping that and praying that the Jesus that we believe in will make all the bad stuff in our life good and change our troubles and the joy and make it so we won't have to have a care in the world, but Jesus doesn't promise that. He does promise to make good out of bad for all things do work together for good for those who love the lord and are called according to his purpose. We know that. But he doesn't promise the absence of bad, of trouble.”

#satisfiedbygrace

“``Church, the world is full of people carrying empty plates, convinced that the next meal, the next purchase, the next relationship, the next achievement, the next finish line will finally satisfy them. If only when. But we know better. Not because we're smarter, because we've been fed by grace. We have found the bread of life and when Christ has satisfied your soul, satisfied people become generous people, satisfied people become joyful people, satisfied people become people mission minded. Because hungry people consume, satisfied people and serve.”

#PowerToWalk

“``So why did Jesus say to a man who had lost all hope, who made all these excuses, get up, take up your bed, and walk? The first thing Jesus said is, do what you cannot do because I can do it through you. God speaks and the very thing he speaks come into being. When God said, let there be light, there was light. And when Jesus commands something that seems impossible, get up and walk, to the paralyzed man, he not only includes the command, he can he gives him the power to do it. He gives him the power to do it. Do you remember Peter was in a boat with the disciples? And he saw Jesus, and he said, Lord, if it is you, bid me come. And Jesus said one word, come. And Peter got out of the boat, and he walked on water. It wasn't Peter's power or he was a miraculous person like Jesus was. Jesus gave him the power to walk on water.”

#FaithOverFlag

“``Because across the country today, millions of Americans are flying flags and they remind us of courage, sacrifice, freedom, service, and they should. And we honor those who have gay so much that we could enjoy the blessings we often take for granted. But there is another symbol that stands even higher than every flag. It isn't stitched with stars and stripes. It's rough wood stained with blood of the son of God. It's the cross of Jesus Christ. And today, we celebrate a nation that has endured for two hundred and fifty years. But we worship a king and a kingdom that has no beginning and whose reign will never end. And our deepest hope is not found in the rise and fall of any nation. It's found in Jesus Christ.”

#HeldByHisHands

“``So today, you don't have to control tomorrow. You don't have to control today. You don't have to know every answer. You don't have to carry the impossible weight of running the universe. That job is fulfilled. It's already filled, and the one that holds you, the one that holds the world in his hand still bears the scars of the nails in his hands that hold you.”

#MercyOverCondemnation

“See, the greatest miracle of the story is not that Jesus knew her past. The greatest miracle is after knowing her past, he stayed. And the Christ she thought she knew was not the Christ standing before her. She suspected condemnation like she experienced from everybody else, and yet she received mercy. She expected distance like everybody else had done to her, and she found pursuit. She expected some hardcore religion of laws, and she found a loving father. She expected another argument, and she found living water.”

#FamilyMissionField

“What I want you to do is I want you to take it with you. What you have received here, go and give it away. And so you go back to your families. Right? That's the that's the first mission field. Go to your families and give your families the gospel that God has taken all your sins away in Jesus Christ. Believe and be baptized and and you'll be saved no matter what you've done. No matter what you have done, God will save you, and then he'll choose not to remember your sins anymore.”

#BeholdTheLamb

“See, the Christ you thought you knew is even better than you imagined. He's not really a teacher, a moral leader, a life coach, a little safety pass, backup plan. He's a savior. He's your sacrifice. He's your substitute. He's the crucified risen lamb. And because he lives, your sins are forgiven. Your future is secure and your hope is certain. So behold the lamb.”

#PreferDarkness

“``Because the problem is not merely that we live in darkness. The problem is we prefer darkness. See, number two, the uncomfortable truth about light is in John one five. The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has overcome it. That sounds hopeful and it is. But there's a tension in this verse that's hiding the kind of. Because if Jesus is the light that overcomes darkness, what does it say about us? See, the bible doesn't say we just merely stumble in darkness. It says, darkness lives deeper than we ever want to omit. Jesus later says in John three one, people love the darkness rather than light because their works were evil. See, that's not ignorance. That's preference.”

#GospelFirst

“More churches close than open every year. More churches split, fight, walk away from their mission to pursue other things. They get into socializing. They get into social ministry. They get into a lot of things short of sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. And I don't wanna bust your bubble this morning, but that's the only reason hope is here, is to share the gospel. We say, awakening hearts every day. That's the gospel. Awakening people to the power and the changing agent that Jesus is.”

#MeetPeopleWhereTheyAre

“Way different than some of the thinking of the modern church, which is if we put out enough marketing, hang enough banners, put out the word, the world will come. Hadn't worked yet. Jesus has been gone almost two thousand years. Nope. I'm gonna give you a little clue. This is why hope is on the beach because we wanna be where you are. I can't tell you through the years how many people have pulled up a chair while just walking the beach. Wow. Look at that. A church service and they just plug in. We wanna be where you are. They multiply that by all the places where you go. And as you go, make disciples.”

#GospelGivesEverything

“See, some of you are spiritually exhausted because your hands has spent years trying to carry what only Jesus can. And that is why the gospel is such good news. Don't miss this. This is the gold. See, before God ever asks anything from our hands, he gives us everything through his hands. Before God ever asks anything from our hands, he gives us everything through his hands. He gives us his forgiveness, his mercy, salvation, identity, and rest.”

#SavedByJesusGaze

“Notice Paul's not saying, after they cleaned it up, not after you got your vision straight, but while you were still seeing everything wrong, he died for you. See a, you are not saved because you finally looked at Jesus, you are saved because Jesus never stopped looking at you. Hebrews says, the joy set before him. That joy was Jesus looking at you even going to the cross. Do you know what that means? When Jesus went to the cross, he saw you.”

#TradeForHisHeart

“``But Jesus comes to us. Jesus loves God for us. It's his heart who knows how to love God. Jesus gave his heart for your divided one. Now catch that. He gave us his heart, and we get to trade. We can end all the battles. I can honestly have one driving force in my life. I can have one love in my life. I can settle all discussion by simply knowing that I love God more than anything.”

#TrustGodsMind

“I don't care if you had a dad that kept telling you how stupid you were and you've begun to believe that. You've always believed it. Let me tell you something. Jesus doesn't make stupid. Jesus is saying to you, you're not stupid. You're mine. I love you. I created you. I made you like you are. You don't listen to them. Their thinking is futile. Their thinking is dark. They don't get it. I've given you a new way and a new mind. Start thinking like me. In fact, why don't you just let me do the thinking? That'd be even better. Just let God do the thinking.”

#BelongInChrist

“to create a church that through discipleship could spread the good news of Jesus Christ. That's why we're here. It's what we do. But you don't have to decide to be one, you are one. Christ was cut off so we could belong. He broke his body and shed his blood so that we could gain access into the body of Christ. So you have a position, you have a place today, you belong. God has seen to that. Now, we must go and live like we belong.”

#LiveFromIdentity

“Discipleship is not about earning identity, but living from an identity. God chose you. Jesus called you. The spirit shaped you. And Jesus didn't stand at a distance and say, hey. Come join my church. He went to the cross so that you would be his child. And this morning, God is calling you to live who you are, a disciple of Jesus. And the question is, and I wanna end on this, will you be a part of the community Jesus died to create? Will you live who you are? Will you pray with me?”

#TombEmptyPaidInFull

“I don't know where you're today, but I want you to know the tomb is empty whether you believe it or not. It's empty. Come on. And everything changes. The resurrection is not just God's great miracle. Look what he did. No. It is a verdict. It is a verdict being declared that although you are sinful and you deserve judgment and you deserve condemnation, God has stepped in for your sin. God has stepped in for your punishment through Jesus Christ, and it's paid in full.”

#TriumphantKing

“A king who does not conquer by taking life, but by giving life. A king who does not avoid suffering, but walks straight into it. A king who does not save himself because he's come to save you. See, palm branches fade, crowds disappear, voices grow quiet, but the king who rode into Jerusalem went to a cross, rose from the grave, and now reigns. And his victory is not something to admire. It's something that is given to you to you, and that's why it's triumphant.”

#LoveOvercomesSin

“His love overcomes their apostasy. He does not ignore their sin though, but He refuses to let sin do what sin wants to do. Sin wants to control the final outcome. You understand sin wants to control your final outcome, to stack the deck against you, to control the end and give you exactly the outcome that you deserve because you're favored by God and the enemy hates it. Sin always has an agenda, it's death.”

#MercyStrongerThanSin

“See, sin is serious, but it's not stronger than God's mercy. Some of you walked in today thinking, I think I maybe wandered too far. I wonder if I just failed too many times. I keep doing the same stupid sin. I got such a mess. God must be done with me. He can't use me. But listen to Hosea. God does not say, why should I take you back? He says, how can I give up on you? And the answer to that question is the cross.”

#ReturnToGod

“Maybe you need to hear this. Maybe you've drifted. Maybe you've become cold. Maybe you've substituted duty for devotion. Maybe you've been living in fear so long that anxiety feels normal. Maybe you're spiritually tired, emotionally numb, and privately ashamed. And maybe you said, God, I'm done. And what God says is return. Return. Now maybe some of you are here physically, but you've been kinda absent spiritually. You show up, you sing, you serve, you smile, but in inwardly, you've been feeding on the wind. And you're tired, and you're cynical, and you're numb. Maybe you haven't abandoned Christ publicly, but you stopped resting in him personally. And Hosea is not just confronting you. He's calling you home. He's calling you home. Number five. Why?”

#ComeHomeToJesus

“So number nine, the call today is to return home. Grandma's at the house. It's time to come home. So hear this. If you are wandered, Christ has sought you. If you have stumbled, Christ has carried you. If you have sinned, Christ has borne it. If you're weary, Christ is your rest. Your iniquity is not pending review. It's been nailed to a cross. Your condemnation is not suspended. It has been removed. Your place in the father's house is not prohibitionary. It's secured by the blood of the son who sealed it in the empty tomb.”

#OldTestamentGod

“One of the most interesting statements that I've heard more than once concerning the book Hosea is folks have said to me in life groups and other times, I don't recognize the God of the Old Testament. A lot of folks have not been exposed a great deal to the Old Testament, and they do a lot of study in the New Testament. We know our gospels. But sometimes when we get deeper into the Old Testament, we don't always recognize that God because we're blessed. We live in 2026.”

#GraceGreaterThanSin

“Jesus fulfills the covenant we broke. He bears the judgment we deserve. He restores relationship that we replace with empty religion. The courtroom that we enter and we came into with fear and judgment now becomes the place of grace. See, God is better at forgiving than you are at sinning. God is better at forgiving than you are at sinning.”

#EmbracedAsSon

“And what happens to the prodigal son? Before the son can finish his confession, his father runs to him and he embraces his son and declares him a son, not just to the son, but to the whole community. Put sandals on his feet. Give him a ring. Give him a robe. That's markings of a son.”

#LovedByPromise

“``See, the gospel God's love does not ask us, have you loved enough? It declares you are loved enough in Christ. He pursues you. He doesn't quit. Why? Because b, covenant love is not based on our worthiness but on God's promise. It's on God's promise.”

#BlessingsFlow

“``I have always believed and I believe with all my heart. As God blesses, we are not to pool that, those blessings because water that stops running does what? Starts going bad, doesn't it? Gets stagnant. You see as God has blessed, it is so it can flow through us to somebody else. Can I just make you a promise? You cannot. I'm not saying you won't, I'm saying you can't. Outgive God. Try me. You can't do it.”

#KnownAndLoved

“``And this is where grace becomes easily personal. Jesus does not call us because he's impressed with us. He calls us because he knows us fully, completely, truthfully. He knows our doubts. He knows our fears. He knows our sins. And he still calls and says, follow me. This is not tolerance. This is mercy. The law exposes here that we are not known and loved because we deserve it, but the gospel proclaims we are known and loved in spite of it.”

#StrugglingIsNotFailure

“``In fact, a in your notes, struggling with sin is not failure. It shows you are finally free. Dead people don't fight. Living people do. If you're struggling with sin, it means that it doesn't have dominion over you. It's still tempting you. You still feel like it's pleasurable. You're still battling it, but it means that the spirit is battling with you, that you recognize this is wrong and you don't want it to ruin your life. And so by by being saved by grace doesn't mean we don't sin anymore. It means that, man, we're gonna struggle. And on this side of eternity, we're gonna keep struggling. That's why there's grace. And we struggle. We're saying this is not good. I I want God to lead in my life.”

#GrewToGiveGrace

“That Jesus did not grow because he needed grace, he grew to give us grace. He lived the perfect human life, patient, obedient, faithful, so that when our growth is slow and uneven, his righteousness stands in our place. Our hope is not that we will grow, but in who grew for us.”

#ScatterTheSeed

“It's just scatter and seed. And then you can take a nap. Scatter seed. Go about your business. Do your day. Get up. Go back to bed. Rise. Sleep. Do your day. But as you go through the day, scatter the seed. Just scatter the seed. That's the missionary part. I say it this way to many, many people. All you have to do is get Jesus on the table. That's all. In the conversation. Get him in the conversation. Get him on the table. Just get the seed planted.”

#GodNeverLetsGo

“``So what does that mean? That means for you and I, when we're in these dark places in our lives, well maybe the circumstances or the things that happen in our lives bring us to a dark place where we feel unworthy. We feel incredibly weak. We feel faithless and fearful. Isaiah says, God's promise does not depend on you holding on to him. It depends on him holding on to you. That is his zeal. His zeal is he never lets go. He never lets go.”

#JoyWithACross

“``and seelord he is not he's a savior he is christ the scriptures say angels say and he is lord god in the flesh god in true humility humanity i meani mean here's one of the deepest mysteries that god has become man without ceasing to be godthe the the infinite enters the finite the creator enters creation the timeless one enters time whyso he can stand in your place he can live your life perfectly die your death sacrificially and rise body so you will tooso this means that christmas joy is not sentimental it's not a hallmark it is sacrificialit's not surface level it is saving it is active it is living it's not emotional fluff but eternal joy it's a joy with a cross and it's a joy that forgives a joy that holds us in suffering a joy that outlasts death”

#PeaceInHisPresence

“Perfect peace Is different than that It's based not on this Outward circumstances Or a problem free world But number five Perfect peace Is found in the presence Of God In the presence Of God Not in the absence Of problem But in the presence Of GodThat's why the Bible Says as Paul writes In the New Testament You have a peace That goes beyond Beyond all understanding Because when I'm Looking at your life You're looking at Your own life And you're seeing Everything going on You should be a messBut you're not”

#HopeHasAName

“``Hope has a name and the name is Jesus. In fact three different times in the epistles in the New Testament epistles are just the letters of the New Testament it says hope has a name. It describes Jesus as hope. And so if you look in your notes we see the first one in Timothy 1.1 the Apostle Paul of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Jesus Christ our hope. Jesus is what then? Jesus is our say it? Hope.”

#UnconditionalLove

“You need to recognize this morning. If you are struggling with sin, struggling with guilt in your life, if you're hurting over some shortcoming in your life, you need to know God loves you anyway. He loves you still. He loves you in spite of where you sit today. He loves you. You don't have to be afraid. I've seen billboards in the last several years in my travels out on the highway. You'll find every now and then I'll see a billboard that some organization has put up and it says, God is not mad at you.”

#PerfectlyImperfectFamily

“There's no perfect family and there is no perfect Thanksgiving dinner. There's only one perfect Thanksgiving dinner. And it's in your head. I mean, our Thanksgiving table, I don't know how many of you grew up with a kid table. How many of you got kids' tables? The kids would be on a separate table because you had so many. And what they would do is, if you would ask for, like, corn, the bowl of corn could be one over. But no, it had to go around the whole table the other way. And the goal of it was for everybody to take enough corn. When it got to you, it was empty. So you had to get up and refill it. Now, that was just a little kid around with us. But can you imagine what it would have been like around a dinner table with Joseph and his brothers? I don't even think Joseph's at the table. He's by daddy's side being protected. There's no way. These guys hated him. But what do we see be God's covenant continues despite this human weakness. Despite all their brokenness, God's covenant continues.”

#FearNotMeetHim

“You don't have to be afraid to meet Him. You don't have to fear death. You don't have to worry about judgment. You simply receive God's grace because His grace comes first. He loves you. He loves you. Right where you are. The same way you are. And so you can meet Him today.”

#GraceInBrokenness

“And so, by manipulating getting the birthright, he gets a double inheritance, not a spiritual inheritance, but also a double of wealth, too, and the authority of the family. But now, he's on the run, he's left all that, because he did it with deception and sin. And last week, we kind of saw him hit rock bottom, literally, he's hit on a rock and having to sleep, maybe at this place of failure. But in this place, where his head's on the rock, asleep, he has a dream that God comes and reveals to him, and he sees this ladder, these angels descending and ascending, and God, there, in this moment, when he's on the rock bottom, confirms his covenant with him. And in the chaos, and the brokenness, and the messiness, and dysfunction of family and sin, God speaks words of grace and promise to Jacob. It's a beautiful moment.”

#GodStandsBesideWithGrace

“God is the one who's directing what's happening. Jacob, this did not happen because of fate. This was not just some mere accident. This was not something you just decided to do. Even though Jacob's life, your life is feeling out of control. It's spinning out into chaos. I want you to know God is in control. It's a reminder. In our world that can be filled with so much chaos. And sin. God still reigns. He stands above it all. More importantly, He is faithful to His promises. God is not giving up on Jacob. He doesn't give up on you.”

#GodWithUsInStruggles

“Faithful families, though, face trials, but God's faithfulness is constant. Again, I think you need to hear this again. If you're having difficulties in the family, if you're having struggles, if you're in this period, if you're in this period of waiting, I want you to know you're not the only ones. It happens to all of us. You're not alone in your parenting or grandparenting struggles.”

#PrayerFocusTransforms

“Let’s face it, the problem with submission is that we’re not going to like where we who we have to listen to and yet blowing it. When we operate without prayer, how many bad decisions have we made in our lives because we didn’t stop to pray? Prayer is a new focus. Not a new focus, but a bigger focus for hope. These days we are beginning to use prayer more than we ever have. Because I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but God is doing something new and fresh with our fellowship.”

#LoveDrivesObedience

“Obedience is like I have. I am obedient to an outside authority that's greater than me. I have an honor and respect for that great authority that. That I'm going to do it as an act of duty, an act of respect and honor to that authority that's over me. And that's part of what obedience is. But this test in obedience, if you will act in my authority, was also a test of who do you love, Abraham? Do you love the giver of the gift? Or do you love the gift more than the giver? What's more important to you? What are you gonna follow? See, there's this thing. What you love, you will follow and be obedient to. What do you love and are passionate about? You will do. And you don't have to be commanded. You do it because that love moves you and it will discipline you and it will drive you because it's love.”

#TrustingGodsCharacter

“His obedience number three was trusting God's character. I mean, Abraham's obedience is truly exceptional. I mean, his one and only son, there is no other one else, and he's willing to sacrifice. It's almost unbelievable. And he doesn't hesitate. He goes right at it. And you got to start wondering why? I mean, why is he able to do that? And I think it's because this is. I mean, this is challenging. Think about it. Like, to me, that is hard enough. Way, you're doing it, you're doing it. You're like, oh, I feel awful. So what enabled him to do that? When in a situation, I mean, it looks rather hopeless because Abraham is trusting God's character, not his feelings.”

#LoveIsAction

“Jesus called us, right? If we are brought into his family, just to simply love God and to love others. Love requires is a verb, not a feeling. It's a verb. It is an action of giving of oneself to others in service or whenever to help someone. Love is action. It's giving. It's sacrifice.”