2 Samuel 7 · 1 Kings 11:11-13
2 Samuel
The King and the Covenant of God
God redirects David's desire to build a temple by promising him an eternal kingdom through his descendant, demonstrating that when God closes one door, He opens to something infinitely greater.
Joshua 21:43-45 · James 1:17
Joshua
God Never Fails
God is a faithful giver of good gifts and always fulfills His promises, calling believers to patience, perseverance through struggle, and trust despite human failure.
Galatians 3:15-18
Abraham's Promise
God's covenant with Abraham, based on His promise rather than the law, demonstrates His trustworthiness and generosity. Believers today inherit this promise through faith in Christ, not through their own effort.
Joshua 14:6-14 · Numbers 13
Caleb
Caleb's life demonstrates that God's promises motivate perseverance, the past need not define the future, and faith shaped for legacy. Believers are called to hold fast to God's promises and pass enduring faith to the next generation.
Joshua 8:30-35 · Deuteronomy 27
Joshua
Covenant Renewed
This sermon examines how God's covenant with Israel mirrors family membership—unconditional acceptance coupled with conditions that reveal God's character. Believers are saved by grace alone but called to live in obedience as a sign of belonging to God's family.
Joshua 21:43-45
Joshua
God Never Fails
A summary statement at the close of the land distribution: every promise God made, he kept. A call to patience, endurance through struggle, and trust despite personal failure.
Genesis 21:1-7
It's a Boy!
God fulfills his promise to Abraham and Sarah through the birth of Isaac, demonstrating that he never forgets his commitments and acts according to his perfect timing, not ours.
Genesis 12:10-20
Lost Courage
This sermon examines Abram's failure of faith during famine, showing how even believers of great faith can lose perspective and compromise their values when focused on immediate survival rather than God's promises. Despite human unfaithfulness, God remains committed to fulfilling his covenant.
Malachi 2:10-16
Malachi
Malachi: Prophet of Faithfulness
This sermon examines God's intensity regarding marriage through Malachi's rebuke of covenant-breaking. It calls believers to understand marriage as a sacred covenant modeled on God's faithfulness, rejecting the illusion of greener grass and recommitting to spiritual leadership within families.
Genesis 15:1-18
Abraham
Meeting God
God is a faithful promise-keeper who binds himself to his people through covenant. Active faith means trusting God's promises and living as if his word is already certain.
Genesis 8:22
The Changing of the Seasons
God's promise of seasonal consistency reflects his faithful heart and offers us stability and assurance. Like the turning seasons, our walk with God requires consistent commitment to the one whose promises never fail.
Matthew 5:27-37 · Deuteronomy 24:1-4
Sermon on the Mount
The King's Children Keep Promises
Jesus calls his followers to internal transformation—guarding hearts from lust, honoring marriage covenants, and speaking truth without needing oaths—because the King's children reflect the covenant-keeping nature of their Father.
1 Chronicles 17
Chronicles
There Is None Like You
God gives David undeserved blessings and promises an everlasting kingdom through his descendant. Our response to God's greatest gift—Jesus—should be humility and commitment.
Galatians 4:21-31
Galatians
Two Covenants
Paul uses the Hagar-Sarah story to contrast law and grace: just as Hagar's slavery persisted despite bearing a child, the law enslaves; but Sarah's child Isaac, born by promise, represents the freedom of grace. Believers must reject the false teachers and embrace grace alone.
Genesis 2:20-25 · Song of Solomon 1:2
A Theology of Sex
This sermon examines how sexual intimacy within marriage reveals God's holiness and reflects the spiritual union between Christ and the church, calling believers to see sex as a covenant expression and spiritual demonstration rather than merely physical pleasure.
Genesis 2 · 2 Samuel 5:1
Covenant
Covenant of Marriage
This sermon examines marriage as a covenant relationship grounded in Genesis, challenging romantic idealism with biblical realism. Listeners are called to choose gratitude, forgiveness, and intentional connection over criticism and busyness.
Ephesians 5:21-33 · Genesis 2:24
Family
God's Desire for Marriage
Marriage is a covenant reflecting the relationship between Christ and the church, calling husbands and wives to mutual submission, loyalty, and holiness as they honor one another as God's gift.
Exodus 3:7-22
Exodus
The God of Promise
God's name—I AM—reveals him as the eternal promise keeper who works through his people despite challenges. Trust in his presence and strength, not ease.
Genesis 2:20-25 · Genesis 2:24
Basics
Why Did God Create Sex?
God created sex with purpose and intent as a celebration of the marriage covenant. Sexual intimacy within marriage expresses both the covenant commitment between spouses and the spiritual relationship between Christ and the church, calling couples to mutual acceptance and honor.
John 14:1-7 · 2 Corinthians 11:2
Cuba
God Promises Eternal Life
Jesus uses wedding language and promises to assure his troubled disciples of eternal life with him, calling believers to remain faithful and ready for his return.
Ephesians 5:21-33 · Genesis 2:24
God's Intention for Marriage
Marriage is a covenant relationship that mirrors Christ's relationship with the church, calling spouses to mutual submission, loyalty, and honor as a spiritual reflection of divine love.
Genesis 12:10-20
Genesis
Lost Courage
This sermon examines Abram's failure of faith during famine, when he abandoned God's promise and deceived Pharaoh to survive. Though Abram forgot God's covenant, God remained faithful and redirected him back to his calling.
Malachi 2:10-16
Malachi
Respect for Marriage
Marriage is a covenant binding two people at all costs, not a casual agreement to be discarded when circumstances change. God calls believers to keep their marriage promises and lead their families toward him.
Hosea 1:1-2:1
Hosea
The Covenant Love of God
God's covenant love remains faithful despite human unfaithfulness. Through Hosea's marriage to Gomer, God demonstrates that sin is spiritual adultery, yet his covenant promises renewal and restoration to all who seek reconciliation.
Hebrews 6:13-20 · Genesis 22
God's Promises
God Is a Promise Keeper
God makes promises secured by his own character and cannot lie. Believers find confidence and hope by trusting in God's unchangeable promises, especially the promise of eternal life with him.
John 14:1-7 · 2 Corinthians 11:2
God's Promise
God Promises Eternal Life
Jesus uses wedding language and customs to assure his troubled disciples that he will return and take them to be with him eternally, just as a bridegroom comes for his bride.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-8
God's Promise
God Promises Holiness
God's will is holiness for his children, and he provides his Holy Spirit—who is inherently holy—to empower believers to live set apart from the world's sexual immorality.
Philippians 4:4-9
God's Promise
God Promises Peace
God promises peace to his children when they exchange anxiety for prayer and praise. By praying about worries and replacing them with thoughts of praiseworthy things, believers experience God's peace that guards their hearts and minds.
Hebrews 13:5-6 · Deuteronomy 31:6
God's Promise
God Promises to Be With Me
God promises never to abandon His people, and this promise produces confidence that displaces fear. Believers can trust God's presence even when circumstances remain difficult.
1 John 1:5-10
God's Promise
God Promises to Forgive
God promises swift forgiveness to those who confess their sins and walk in the light. Confidence in this promise transforms how we live and relate to God.
Galatians 4:21-31
Galatians
Two Covenants
This sermon contrasts two spiritual birth stories—Ishmael (born of human effort and slavery) and Isaac (born of God's promise and freedom)—to show that Christian freedom comes through trusting God's grace, not through self-reliant effort to earn God's favor.
Luke 22:7-23 · Luke 9:31
Luke
Passover
Jesus transforms the Passover meal into a new covenant celebration, where the bread and wine symbolize his body and blood given for all people. Participants in this meal pledge their allegiance to Jesus as Savior and Lord.
Ephesians 5:21-33 · Genesis 2:24
Family
God's Desire for Marriage
Marriage reflects the covenant relationship between Christ and the church. Spouses are called to mutual submission, loyalty, and honor—treating marriage as a sacred mystery that reveals God's design for intimacy and oneness.
Genesis 2:20-25 · Song of Songs 2:1
Family
God's Desire for Sexual Union
God created sex as a covenant act that reveals his holiness and his character. Sexual intimacy within marriage, rooted in mutual acceptance and vows, demonstrates spiritual truth and honors God's design.
Ephesians 5:21-33 · Genesis 2:24
Family
God's Desire for Sexual Union, Part 2
Sexual union within marriage reflects the intimate relationship between Christ and the church, transforming sex from mere physical pleasure into a spiritual demonstration of God's covenant and oneness.
2 Samuel 7 · Ephesians 3:14-21
God Does More
When God says no to our plans, even with pure motives, He often has something far greater in mind. David's rejection of building God a house becomes God's opportunity to promise an eternal dynasty, teaching us to trust God's vision beyond our own.
2 Samuel 9 · 1 Samuel 20
Love and Loyalty
David shows love and loyalty to Jonathan's son Mephibosheth, rewarding him not for his own merit but because of his covenant with Jonathan. The sermon applies this pattern to God's grace toward spiritually broken believers, calling the congregation to extend similar compassion to others.