Sermons from 2026

Someone else receives praise, and suddenly we feel smaller. Why can another person’s good news be so difficult to hear? In Week 4 of After God’s Own Heart at Hudson’s Hope Chapel, Israel celebrates David’s victory, but Saul hears a threat to his own place. Comparison becomes resentment, and fear turns into violence against the man serving him. In 1…

This morning in 1 Samuel 16, we were reminded that God’s choice is not always our choice. He knows more than we can see. Samuel’s disappointment gives way to a new task, and his confident first impression gives way to God’s correction. David is called from caring for sheep and receives God’s Spirit for the work ahead. Ordinary faithfulness matters…

In this sermon from 2 Samuel 9, we continue the summer series Small Stories, Big Faith by looking at David’s covenant kindness to Mephibosheth. Mephibosheth is a vulnerable man from Saul’s fallen house. When David summons him, he may expect judgment. Instead, David says, “Do not fear,” restores his land, and gives him a permanent place at the…

Joshua 2 tells the story of Rahab, an unlikely outsider in Jericho who hears what the Lord has done, fears Him rightly, and seeks refuge under His promise. She is not introduced as a polished religious person or an obvious example of faith. She is a Canaanite, a woman with a complicated past, and someone living in a condemned city. And yet God, in His mercy, brings her…