Have you ever wished you could trade places with someone, if it meant their salvation? That’s exactly what Paul says in the opening of Romans 9 - a grief so great he could wish himself accursed for his unbelieving kinsmen. From there Paul turns to the hardest (and one of the most contested) doctrines in all of Scripture: God’s sovereign election. In this lesson, beginning with Paul's proper disposition toward this doctrine, we trace its history in the stories of Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Pharaoh and Moses, and consider the circumstance in which it comes to us. Finally, we turn to election's proper application - a doctrine meant not for doubt or pride, but for humility, assurance, and confidence, both in our own salvation and in sharing the gospel with anyone, since God will lose none of his elect. Listen as Pastor Glenn Jones walks us through Romans 9:1-29 and God’s purpose in election. Preached on the 18th Sunday of Trinity Season, October 4, 2026.

Have you ever prayed for a loved one who seems determined to run from Jesus? If God is sovereign in election, why pray at all? Last week we saw God’s purpose in election, and this week Paul shows us what to do with it: pray, preach, and keep believing. Paul explains how Israel, zealous for God but “not according to knowledge,” stumbled over the very Messiah the law had always pointed to and tells everyone that Christ is the telos of the law, both its goal and its end. That means that God's salvation has always come through his word to those who hear it by faith, never through works-righteousness or ethnic superiority. Listen as Pastor Glenn Jones walks us through Romans 10 on the 19th Sunday of Trinity Season, October 11, 2026.

Whose image is on you? If Jesus had been asked whether it’s lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, what would you have said? In Matthew 22, the Pharisees and Herodians, two factions who agreed on nothing but their hatred of Jesus, set what they thought was the perfect trap: a yes-or-no question about a hated Roman tribute coin. In this lesson, we look at how Jesus springs the trap on them, why the coin in their own pockets exposed their hypocrisy, and how He lifts the whole question from the politics of Rome to the claims of God: Caesar is owed what bears his image, but God is owed what bears His, which is us. Along the way, we consider what Jesus’ “revolutionary subordination” means for how we obey earthly authority, and why we owe God our obedience, our worship, and our very lives. Preached by Elder Fred Thompson on the 20th Sunday of Trinity Season, October 18, 2026.