The Exposed Word

09/06/2026

Dear church: Cut out the cancer. (2 minutes)

09/03/2026

Full sermon from 8/30/26

Lake Church: 2 Timothy 2:14-19

09/02/2026

There’s a tired old song playing on repeat from the pulpits of churches: "We're all sinners!" While it is true that Christians continue to fall short of God's standard, there is a marked difference between true Christians and the sinners described by Paul in passages such as 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, Galatians 5:19-21, Ephesians 5:5-6, and Colossians 3:5-6. People who, after being approached by the church, continue to practice these sins should not be allowed to worship and fellowship with the church until they change their ways. For the sinner's sake and the sake of the rest of the church, the wicked person should be put out.

In the Bible, God has clearly stated His instructions for these cases. Our attempts to justify our indulgence will not stand against His words. "But if we discipline that member, we will also have to address the sin of the other members, and we might end up with no members!" If they don't repent, put them out. "But if we discipline those members, it will cause division and fall out! I don't want to cause stress for people!" If they don't repent, put them out.

When we allow sin to remain in the church, we give the unrepentant sinner the false assurance that it is well with his soul, contrary to the passages I noted earlier. When we allow sin to remain in the church, we allow the sin of one or two people to corrupt the whole group and rob the whole church of its God given power and effectiveness. It only takes a little cancer to destroy the entire body, and God will remove His influence from a church as a result of their corporate disobedience (see Revelation 2-3).

"Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person."
- 1 Corinthians 5:13

08/30/2026

The word of God can't be stopped. (2 minutes)

08/27/2026

Full sermon from 8/23/26

Sturgeon Creek Church: 2 Timothy 2:8-13

08/26/2026

Christ is the only source of saving power. (2 minutes)

08/23/2026

Dear Christian: How can you possibly rejoice when you encounter various trials? Who wants hardship? Who is happy about it? Only those who realize that God works all things together for good to them. That God is using the hardship to mature them. That God's power is perfected in their weakness.

Keep the faith through the trial. Consider it all joy.

"Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing."
- James 1:2-4

08/20/2026

Full sermon from 8/16/26

The Exposed Word: 2 Timothy 2:1-7

08/19/2026

Controversy will reveal your power source. (2 minutes)

08/16/2026

What you're going through is not an accident.

God sees the end from the beginning. He knows what the chessboard of history will look like after this age. He knows it because He has already ordained it. He knows when each chess piece will move and where it will be at any given moment in time. He knows these things because He is sovereign over each chess piece and each movement. He is working all things after the counsel of His own will.

When we take a step back from our narrow view of our life in the day to day, when we consider the narrow limit of our understanding, when we consider that we have to do with the all-knowing Creator and Sustainer of all things, the only God, Almighty God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, we tend to shut our mouths and cease our complaining and questioning. We realize our utter foolishness in the presence of His infinite wisdom. We are assured, by grace through faith, that the Judge of all the earth will indeed do right. And in all our circumstances, we are satisfied with that.

"I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is no one like Me,
Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things which have not been done,
Saying, 'My plan will be established,
And I will accomplish all My good pleasure.'"
- Isaiah 46:9-10

"Lord, I believe, yes I believe,
I cannot doubt or be deceived;
The eye that sees each sparrow fall,
His unseen hand is in it all."
- A. W. Dicus