St. Stephen Lutheran Church

09/04/2026

All Our Righteousness Is Like A Filthy Rag

09/03/2026

Take Up Your Cross

09/02/2026

You or Jesus?

09/01/2026

The Way Out of the Devil's Trap - The Call of the Cross

08/31/2026

What Will You Give In Return For You Life?

08/31/2026

https://youtu.be/yo9Ftjc0p5k

What would you trade for one more day of life? It is a question that cuts straight to the heart of what we truly value. This message takes us deep into one of the most sobering and yet liberating calls Jesus ever issued: take up your cross and follow me. Drawing from Matthew 16, we explore the turning point in Jesus' ministry with his disciples, the moment after Peter's great confession that Jesus is the Christ, when everything shifts. Jesus immediately begins showing them what that means, and it is not what anyone expected. The cost is everything. The self, the pride, the quiet insistence that we know better. We examine how Peter's well-meaning rebuke of Jesus mirrors the very temptation Satan leveled in the wilderness, a reminder that the enemy's strategy never really changes. He always comes to convince us we do not need the cross. But here is the profound reversal at the heart of the gospel: the cross that costs us everything is also the very thing that gives us everything. Losing our lives for Christ's sake is not tragedy. It is the only path to finding life that never ends.

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08/28/2026

The Key That Locks and Unlocks

08/28/2026

The Key That Opens Heaven

08/26/2026

The Out of this World Confession

08/25/2026

The Gospel Must Be Revealed By The Father