This Sunday's Inspirational Message is:

What Is Sin?

Last week, I shared on the Holiness of God. When we truly see God as holy, three things happen. It humbles us. It cleanses us. And it sends us. The holiness of God is not a threat to be feared from a distance. It is a reality that, when truly seen, humbles us, cleanses us, and sends us out to serve Him.

Today we're tackling a subject that, honestly, most of us would rather skip. We're talking about sin. Not in some abstract, theological, ivory-tower kind of way. We're talking about why sin matters - why it's serious - and why so many of us, myself included, have quietly stopped treating it that way.

You know what? I think most of us have a sin or two we've made peace with. A habit. A grudge. A pattern of thought. Something we've stopped fighting because, honestly, fighting is exhausting. We've made a truce with it. We've decided it's not that big a deal.

But here's the thing - God never made that truce. And today, from Isaiah chapter fifty-nine, we're going to look honestly at what sin actually does, why God takes it so seriously, and why we should too. This isn't going to be a guilt trip. I promise you that. It's going to be an honest look in the mirror, and then - thank God - a look at the cross, where sin was dealt with once and for all.s.

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Once again, thanks for joining us in our time of worshiping the Lord through His Word!

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"Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. 1995. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

The music "Revive Us Again" and "Be Thou My Vision" arranged and played by Don Wigton. Used by Permission.

This Sunday's Inspirational Message is:

Practical Holiness

Today we're talking about a word that makes a lot of us squirm a little: holiness. Maybe it sounds like something for monks, or missionaries, or people a whole lot more spiritual than you and me. But that's not what the Bible means by it. Peter, writing to ordinary Christians scattered across the ancient world, tells them plainly: "You shall be holy, for I am holy." Not "you might be." Not "try to be, if you feel like it." You shall be.

We're going to walk through 1 Peter 1:13-16 together, and we're going to discover that holiness isn't about becoming stiff or joyless or unrelatable. It's about becoming who God actually made you to be in Christ. It starts in the mind, it refuses to go back to old patterns, and it reaches into every single corner of ordinary life — how we talk, how we work, how we treat our families, how we spend a Tuesday afternoon.

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Once again, thanks for joining us in our time of worshiping the Lord through His Word!

If you enjoyed this episode and want to help support this ministry, please share it with others and post about it on social media.

"Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. 1995. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

The music "Revive Us Again" and "Be Thou My Vision" arranged and played by Don Wigton. Used by Permission.

This Sunday's Inspirational Message is:

The Holiness of God!

Today we're wading into deep water. We're talking about the holiness of God. Now, I know that phrase can sound like something out of a dusty old textbook. Honestly, it might make you want to change the channel. But stay with me, because this is not a topic for theologians locked away in libraries. This is a topic for farmers and nurses and truck drivers and tired moms and every single one of us who has ever wondered, "What is God really like?"

We're going to open the book of the prophet Isaiah, chapter six, and stand with him in the temple on the day everything changed for him. A king had just died. The nation was uncertain. And in the middle of that uncertainty, Isaiah saw something that no comfortable religion ever prepares you for. He saw God as He actually is. Holy. Set apart. Other.

Here is where we are headed. When we truly see God as holy, three things happen. It humbles us. It cleanses us. And it sends us.

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Once again, thanks for joining us in our time of worshiping the Lord through His Word!

If you enjoyed this episode and want to help support this ministry, please share it with others and post about it on social media.

"Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. 1995. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

The music "Revive Us Again" and "Be Thou My Vision" arranged and played by Don Wigton. Used by Permission.