Matt Murphy’s sermon on Soli Deo Gloria teaches that all things—creation, salvation, and life—exist from Him, through Him, and to Him for God’s glory alone. He urges believers to see God’s infinite worth and beauty revealed in Jesus, where divine majesty becomes mercy at the cross. Our response is to acknowledge His worth, exalt Him above ourselves, and rejoice that salvation begins and ends in God’s work alone.
In his sermon “Sola Fide – Faith Alone,” Aidan Sims teaches that righteousness before God is not achieved by works but is declared by God through faith in Jesus Christ. Drawing from Romans 3:22–28, he emphasizes that all people have sinned and are justified freely by God’s grace through Christ’s redemptive work. Faith, a gift from God, unites believers to Christ and His finished work, making them righteous in God’s courtroom—an imputed, not earned, righteousness. Sims contrasts this biblical view with the Roman Catholic idea of infused righteousness and situates sola fide within the broader Reformation recovery of the gospel. God’s declaration is final and transformative: believers live in obedience not to earn righteousness but to grow into the reality of what God has already declared true of them—saved by grace through faith alone.
In Pt. 4 of the Faithful Foundations series: The Solas of the Reformation, Pastor John Murphy taught that salvation is not something we can earn or deserve—it is entirely a gift of God’s grace through the finished work of Christ. From Ephesians 2:1–10, he reminded us that apart from Christ we are spiritually dead, enslaved to sin, and unable to save ourselves—dead people can’t fix themselves. But God, rich in mercy and great in love, made us alive with Christ; we are saved by grace, not by our works. Pastor John warned that both religious performance (“I can earn God’s favor”) and self-sufficiency (“I don’t need grace”) reject the gospel’s core truth. Salvation is a free gift to be received, not achieved. Grace produces humility, worship, and obedience—not to earn love, but in response to the love already given. As Pastor John concluded, “Grace isn’t opposed to effort, it’s opposed to earning.” We are God’s workmanship, saved by grace alone to display His immeasurable kindness and live lives of grateful worship.
In Solus Christus – Christ Alone, Aidan Sims reminds us that our salvation rests entirely on the finished work of Jesus, not on anything we can add. Like a rider who must keep their eyes fixed on where they want to go, the Church must keep its gaze on Christ alone, lest we drift toward “Jesus and…”—Jesus and good behavior, and religious observance, and social causes. From Genesis to Revelation, Scripture reveals that God’s plan of redemption is fulfilled in Jesus—the promised Seed, the true Tabernacle, the eternal King. Fully God and fully man, Christ lived in perfect obedience, bore our sin, and rose to reconcile us to the Father. Through the Spirit, we are united to him so that his story becomes ours—his death our death, his resurrection our life. Salvation is wholly God’s work, accomplished by the Son and applied by the Spirit. When we look at ourselves, we see only our unworthiness; but when we look at Christ, we see the unshakable assurance that we cannot be lost.
In this message from the Faithful Foundations series, Pastor John Murphy unpacks the first cry of the Reformation: Sola Scriptura—Scripture Alone. He shows why God’s Word is sufficient, inspired, and authoritative, contrasting it with the dangers of adding to it or placing ourselves above it. From Luther’s stand at the Diet of Worms to Paul’s words in 2 Timothy 3, the call is clear: Scripture alone must anchor what we believe and how we live. More than information, it leads us to transformation as it points us to Christ.
Pastor John Murphy began a new series 'Faithful Foundations' on the Solas of the Reformation, reminding us that without an anchor we drift, just as the church did before the Reformation. From Romans 1:16–17, he highlighted Martin Luther’s discovery that salvation is not earned by works but received as a gift of God through faith alone—a truth that opened the “gateway to paradise.” The five Solas remind us today that according to Scripture alone, salvation is in Christ alone, by grace alone, through faith alone, for the glory of God alone.
Pastor Donnie Griggs, preaching from Acts 9:31 and Hebrews 10:24, encouraging us to trust God for a season of peace, strengthening, and multiplication. He explained that peace is both God-given and something we must actively preserve, creating space to build up the church through deeper discipleship, care for the vulnerable, a culture of serving, and the raising of strong, godly men. Multiplication flows from God but requires gospel ambition, prayer, and dependence on the Spirit, as the early church lived with holy discontentment, generosity, and faith, seeing God do remarkable things again and again.
Pastor John Murphy’s sermon on Daniel 6 teaches that prayer is the true battleground of life, as Daniel’s lifelong habit of faithful prayer sustained him even under threat of death. It warns us not to put our hope in “weak kings” like politics, money, or relationships, but instead to trust God’s strength to deliver. Ultimately, Jesus is the true and better Daniel who faced the lions of sin, death, and Satan on our behalf, so we are called not to strive to be like Daniel but to trust the One who delivers us.
In Daniel 5, the fall of Belshazzar shows that human kingdoms built on pride and blasphemy cannot stand, but God’s holiness and justice endure. Just as Belshazzar was weighed and found wanting, so too are our own attempts to build lasting kingdoms, yet God has not forgotten His people. In Christ—the true King who was weighed in our place and not found wanting—God establishes an eternal kingdom that cannot be shaken, offering hope and life to all who belong to Him.
In Daniel 4, Pastor John Murphy reminds us that God often gives a “check engine light” in our lives—warning us about the danger of pride before it destroys us. Pride hides in many forms, whether through self-glory, self-sufficiency, comparison, or ignoring God’s Word, and Nebuchadnezzar’s fall shows how God always humbles the proud. Yet his restoration points us to Jesus, the true King who humbled Himself, was exalted, and now calls us to repent, confess our pride, and look to Him for mercy.
This sermon by Matt Murphy unpacks Daniel 3 around Nebuchadnezzar’s golden statue, showing how the pressure to bow—through authority, conformity, spectacle, and fear—mirrors the idols and cultural pressures we face today. Just as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to worship Babylon’s false gods, we too are called to resist modern idols of self, wealth, politics, sexuality, and nationalism. Every false god either consumes us or abandons us, but the living God meets His people in the fire, rescues them, and proves Himself faithful. Our hope is not found in grit but in grace—Jesus took the ultimate furnace of judgment in our place and now stands with us in every trial. Because of this, we can live day by day with quiet faithfulness, refusing to bow to lies, and trusting that we are never alone in the fire.
Pastor John Murphy reflects on what happens when human wisdom fails, using both the folly of modern “experts” and Nebuchadnezzar’s dream as examples. In the passage, Babylon’s wise men admit they cannot interpret the king’s dream—highlighting that human wisdom overpromises and underdelivers—while Daniel turns to God, who alone reveals truth. The dream points to a succession of earthly kingdoms that will all fall, but also to a divine kingdom, established through Jesus Christ, that will never end. Pastor John urges listeners not to build their lives on unstable human ideas or fading powers, but to anchor their security, identity, and hope in Christ, the cornerstone, whose unshakable kingdom will one day fill the earth. The right response, like Daniel’s, is worship, humility, and trust in God’s wisdom.
Pastor John Murphy opened the Faithful Exiles series by showing how Daniel’s story teaches us to trust God’s control, favor, and sustaining power even when we feel like outsiders in a culture that pressures us to compromise. He reminded us that Daniel’s faithfulness points beyond himself to Jesus, the better Daniel, who was faithful for us. Through communion and baptism, we declare that our hope and allegiance belong to King Jesus, not to the world around us.
In this sermon, John Murphy preaches from 2 Corinthians 12:7–10, showing how God uses our weakness—not as punishment, but as the very place His power is made perfect. Through personal stories of trauma and healing, John invites us to stop hiding or fixing our thorns and instead submit them to Jesus, where they become vessels of grace and transformation. In the way of the cross, we learn that our weakness, fully submitted to Christ, is true strength.
How do you become the kind of person who can say, “It is well with my soul” in the midst of devastation? In this message, Matt Murphy walks us through Habakkuk 3, showing how the prophet moves from raw complaint to resolute worship—not through easy answers, but by encountering the living God in His glory and power. Like Horatio Spafford, who penned those famous hymn lyrics after heartbreaking loss, Habakkuk teaches us a gritty, resilient faith that learns to sing even in the dark. Join us as Matt unpacks this powerful picture of hope that holds, even when everything else shakes.
When evil seems to flourish and justice feels delayed, where is God? In this message, Pastor John Murphy walks us through five prophetic "woes" spoken against Babylon—warnings that reveal not only the pride and corruption of an empire, but also the brokenness in our own hearts. We aren’t just victims of injustice; we often participate in it. But God assures us: He sees everything, knows everything, and reigns over all. And in a surprising twist of grace, the justice we deserve is poured out—not on us, but on Jesus, who drinks the cup of wrath so we can receive the cup of salvation. The question for each of us is this: Which cup will you drink from?
Aaron Fillmore unpacks Habakkuk 2:3–4, reminding us that living by faith means trusting God's promises even when His timing feels slow or uncertain. Drawing from Habakkuk’s honest wrestling and God's response, he encourages believers to wait patiently, trust fully, and rest in God's unchanging faithfulness rather than striving in their own strength. Pointing to Jesus as the ultimate fulfillment of this hope, he reminds us that our righteousness is secured by faith alone, anchored in Christ’s finished work on our behalf.
Matt Murphy unpacks Habakkuk 1:5–11 exploring how we respond when God answers our prayers in unexpected, painful, or seemingly cruel ways. Drawing from Habakkuk’s lament and God’s shocking response—raising up the ruthless Chaldeans—the message highlights that God is sovereign and intimately present, even when His ways are hard to understand. Though we often want clarity, God offers something deeper: Himself. In seasons of suffering, He doesn’t give easy answers but invites us to behold Jesus—the One who reigns and bleeds. Through lament, trust, and holding on to God’s heart when His plan confuses us, we learn to surrender our expectations and find hope not in explanations, but in His faithful presence.
Aidan Sims preaches from Habakkuk 1:1–4 on the tension of crying out to God in the midst of injustice, suffering, and spiritual fatigue, asking, “How long, O Lord?” He invites us to practice faithful resilience—the Spirit-empowered ability to endure hardship while growing in hope, trust, and obedience—beginning with the honest, biblical prayer of lament. Though the text doesn’t resolve the tension, it points us to Jesus, who enters our suffering and offers lasting hope through his death, resurrection, and promised return.
Matt Murphy draws from 1 Timothy 6 to call the church to a long-haul faithfulness formed through gospel-rooted pursuit and fueled by grace. Using the imagery of drifting from wonder, it reminds us that faithfulness doesn’t happen by accident—it’s cultivated through intentional pursuit of God’s character, truth, and eternal life. Paul charges Timothy to flee sin, pursue virtue, fight for truth, and hold onto life in Christ, all motivated by God’s presence and the promise of Jesus’ return. Though we fall short and drift into distraction, we are not left alone—Christ was faithful first, and His grace empowers our pursuit. Our response isn’t striving in our own strength, but surrendering to the grace of the One who pursued us first. Faithfulness, then, becomes not just a task but a response of love and worship.