Verily: Courageous Knowing & Living
“Truly, truly, I say to you.” Jesus is courageously confident in the Gospels, and he wants us to believe and live confidently and courageously after him. But in today’s constantly changing culture, we’re often tempted to believe the safest and even wisest posture is caution and doubt. During this series, we will ask the Bible, “How can we know what’s true?” What are the sources of knowledge God has given us? Can only Jesus say, “Verily, verily, I say to you” or does God equip us to speak as courageously as Jesus?
This is part 7 in the series “Verily: Courageous Knowing and Living”. Hope is becoming less and less common these days, if not simply nonexistent. Wars, climate, economic struggle, increasingly mental health issues and so on. Listen to Dave as he speaks to what scripture says to to this hopelessness so common today.
This is part 6 in the series “Verily: Courageous Knowing and Living”. All truth is meant to lead us to love God and love others. Listen to Dave as he expounds on belief in the truth of God.
This is part 5 in the series “Verily: Courageous Knowing and Living”. How do we become comfortable with the truth once we know it? In this sermon, Dave unpacks this with respect to the text in 1 John.
This is part 4 in the series “Verily: Courageous Knowing and Living”. God chose to make the gospel foolish in the eyes of worldly wisdom, and worldly wisdom is foolish in the eyes of God. Whichever path we follow, we will be a fool to someone. Who will you choose to be a fool for? Listen to Dave as he speaks to both sides.
This is part 3 in the series “Verily: Courageous Knowing and Living”. In seeking to know truth, how do we account for the effects of sin? Sin is confusing because it is the rejection of reality. Listen to Dave as he expounds upon knowing truth while accounting for sin.
When Adam and Eve met, they were naked and unashamed. Adam and Eve could be in relationship with each other with full confidence that the more the other person got to know them, the more they would be loved. In the third sermon in the series “Verily: Courageous Knowing and Living”, listen to Dave as he expounds upon the truth about God, our selves and bodies that come from this scripture.
Dave continues with the second sermon in the series “Verily: Courageous Knowing and Living”. Modern society has an abundance of information, ready at our fingertips, on anything and everything anyone could want to know. There is a difference, though, between retaining information and having actual knowledge. Listen as Dave unpacks this scripture on what it means to know.
At Jesus’ sham trial, Pilate famously asks the Son of God, “What is truth?” Many of us find ourselves asking that question today, but is there an answer? Today we begin a new sermon series on how we know truth, entitled Verily. Listen as Dave invites would-be truth-seekers to look not for a “what,” but a “who.”