Have you ever felt like you didn't have one more ounce to give? This sermon considers what it means to leave, even when it hurts.

What does God ask of His people while we are living as pilgrims in this world? What hope sustains us as we seek to obey His commands? This and more.

What has God done for us? How does He use our suffering? What should our trials result in? We are called to rejoice... even while being refined.

What do we need to know about life on this side of Heaven? First of all, this is not our home. We are pilgrims bound for the promised land.

This is the first sermon in our series on 1 Peter.

Jesus' Resurrection was not His alone - believers share in it. We have both resurrection life now, and we will one day enter into glory with Him. What does that mean for us today? It means that the darkness has been pushed back, and we live in marvelous light. It is time to step out of the shadows, and to finally start living.

On Good Friday the end of hope for those who loved Jesus was etched in stone. Their Christ was dead. The tomb was sealed. All that was left was to mourn.

But we know that is not how the story ends. For the Scripture tells us that God the Father loosed the Son's pangs of death, as He was not able to be held by them. Though on Good Friday we mourn, we also look ahead to Easter Sunday, when the death that seemed so permanent was undone, and the disciples (and our) mourning came to its end.

The first sermon in our series "As Easter Approaches".

The second sermon in our sermon series "As Easter Approaches".