Scripture2 Chronicles 29:15–17 (NASB)“They assembled their brothers, consecrated themselves, and went in to cleanse the house of the LORD, according to the commandment of the king by the words of the LORD. So the priests went in to the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and every unclean thing which they found in the temple of the LORD they brought out to the court of the house of ...  Read More

Scripture1 Corinthians 6:19–20 (NLT)“Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.”DevotionWe moved from Hezekiah’s repaired temple to our bodies as temples of the Holy Spirit. The New Testament makes this truth very personal:...  Read More

Scripture2 Chronicles 29:1–3 (NASB)“Hezekiah became king when he was twenty-five years old; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. He did right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father David had done. In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired th...  Read More

Scripture2 Chronicles 7:14 (NASB)“[A]nd My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”DevotionGod’s promise in 2 Chronicles 7:14 is both comforting and confronting. It is not a passive promise; it is conditional. God says if His people will humble themse...  Read More

Scripture“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.”— Matthew 5:6 (NKJV)DevotionThis weeks sermon made this clear: going to the well is not a one-time event. It’s a lifestyle. We pour out—through serving, parenting, working, loving difficult people—and we get empty. Then we come back and are filled again. Then we pour out. Then we return.Pastor Darren des...  Read More

Scripture“But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.”— 2 Corinthians 4:7 (ESV)DevotionThis weeks sermon used a vivid image: carrying water in old, cracked, chewed-up five-gallon buckets. They were imperfect, but they still held water—and even leaked it everywhere they went. That’s you. You are a “jar of clay”—worn, chipped, imperfect....  Read More

Scripture“The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, ‘Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?’”— John 4:28–29 (NKJV)DevotionThis small detail is powerful: she left her water pot. The very thing she had come for—water—suddenly became secondary. Once she encountered Jesus and tasted living water, the old container wasn...  Read More

Scripture“Jesus answered and said to her, ‘Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.’”— John 4:13–14 (NKJV)DevotionThe woman came to draw physical water from a physical well. Jesus offered water that would sati...  Read More

Scripture“A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, ‘Give Me a drink.’”— John 4:7 (NKJV)DevotionThe Samaritan woman went to the well for ordinary water at an ordinary time. She was just “doing her day.” But Jesus had gone out of His way to meet her there. By every cultural and religious standard, He should have avoided her—wrong gender, wrong ethnicity, wrong reputation. Yet He met...  Read More

Scripture“For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.”— 2 Corinthians 10:4 (ESV)DevotionThis weeks sermon reminded us that giants aren’t always people and they aren’t always huge. A giant might be half an inch taller than you—and still be over you. It might be a habit, a secret sin, a diagnosis, a fear, or a shame that whispers, “You’ll never b...  Read More

ScriptureThe LORD who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go, and the LORD be with you.”— 1 Samuel 17:37 (NIV)DevotionThis weeks sermon began with David walking onto the battlefield as a young shepherd boy. He remembered the lion and the bear, and because of that memory, he had courage for Goliath. His p...  Read More

Scripture“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.”– 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NASB)DevotionOne of the strongest declarations in the sermon was this: “I’m not going back.” Not going back to who I used to be. Not going back to the darkness, double life, cold heart, or dead religion. That’s not pride; that’s agreement with what God ...  Read More