The Blog
Pastoral writing on faith, doubt, culture, and everyday life with Jesus, from the pastors and leaders of Christchurch Miami.
Sermon Blog Jesus Plus Nothing: The Math I Keep Doing on My Own Salvation
Kent Keller said Sunday that it's not Jesus plus works — it's just Jesus. I've spent years quietly doing the other math. Here's what happens when you stop.
Sermon Blog Greater Than All: What Colossians 1:15–20 Says About Who Jesus Really Is
Who is Jesus, really? Colossians 1:15-20 gives Paul's answer — Christ is above everything, sufficient for everything, and the center of everything.
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Sermon Blog The Ministry of Staying
Job's friends got it exactly right for seven days. Then one of them opened his mouth. There is a kind of help that requires no words at all — and most of us are bad at it.
History The Bible Behind "I Have a Dream": Reflections at 63 Years
Sermon Blog Greater Than Ourselves: The Place You Didn't Choose
Paul wrote Colossians from a prison cell, and he never once prayed to get out. What he prayed for instead changes how you look at the life you are actually living.
Apologetics If God Is Sovereign, Are Our Choices Real?
Holding God's sovereignty and human responsibility together with biblical conviction and Christian humility.
Sermon Blog Washing Up the Plates: Why God Cares About Your Monday
Most of your life is not spent doing anything memorable. A seventeenth-century monk who washed dishes for a living had an answer for that — and so does Colossians 3.
Sermon Blog Greater Than Our Relationships: What Actually Changes When Jesus Is at the Center
Every generation invents a new way to build a marriage, raise a child, and survive a job — and each one collapses. Colossians 3:18-4:1 on the household that flourishes because Christ, not the people in it, is at the center.
Sermon Blog I Can't Remember the Day I Got Saved. Does That Count?
Some people have a Damascus road. Some grew up in church and cannot name a single day. Colossians 3:3-4 on why the drama of your story was never the thing that saved you.
Sermon Blog Greater Than Our Old Life: Why You Can't Stop Sinning by Trying Harder
You already agree with the list of things that need to go. So why can't you kill them? A walk through Colossians 3:1-17 on why sin is not a flaw to fix but a death to be raised from.
Sermon Blog Greater Than Your Religion: Why Trying Harder Never Made Anyone Holy
Religion hands you a list. Paul says the list has no power to change you. A walk through Colossians 2:16-23 on why holiness is not something you achieve, but something that grows out of holding fast to Christ.