“The word of God says our God is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.”
Dr. Matthew McKellar preaches from 1 Peter on living as exiles—temporary residents shaped by a heavenly hope—using five cues (hope, holy, fear, love, long) and urging holiness, reverent fear, obedient love, and an appetite for God's Word; the service also included baptisms, camp reports, ministry announcements, and an invitation to trust Christ.
“The LORD described as merciful, gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.”
A podcast episode addressing anger (its biblical distinctions) and how Christians should biblically respond to LGBTQ claims during Pride Month—combining scriptural defense of sexual ethics, pastoral guidance for evangelism and parenting, and practical differences between righteous and sinful anger.
“Oh, the Lord, the Lord, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.”
Pastor Sam Gibson teaches from Romans 8 that rejection is inevitable for Christians, but God uses it to form us. The solution to being shaped by rejection or enslaved by the need for human recognition is the Spirit of adoption—receiving identity, status, and inheritance in Christ so we can respond to rejection from the place of being beloved. He contrasts the imposter/orphan self (performance, people-pleasing, needing recognition) with the beloved/adopted self (secure, free to risk, rooted in the Father's love) and issues practical invitations to receive healing and be reborn into that reality.
“The Lord, the Lord, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.”
Sam Gibson preaches that Christians are truly freed from sin through Jesus and offers pastoral, practical guidance for walking in that freedom. He defines sin as missing the mark and primarily as misplaced relational allegiance, contrasts guilt/innocence and honor/shame frameworks, describes sin’s effects (separates, stains, sensitizes, steals, spreads), and gives three concrete practices for sanctification: live in accountable community, break the cycle early (confess desires and temptations), and practice frequent, specific, confident confession grounded in the finished work of Christ.
