Sermon Summary: This sermon addresses the critical need for the modern church to understand and operate in the gifts of the Holy Spirit (pneumatikos). Pastor Luke challenges the common Western church paradigm that emphasizes the Father, Son, and Holy Bible while neglecting the active ministry of the Holy Spirit. He argues that without the Spirit's empowerment and gifts, the church becomes weak and incapable of facing contemporary challenges or fulfilling the Great Commission. The message calls believers to move beyond theological knowledge alone and step into supernatural power through being filled with the Holy Spirit. The sermon emphasizes that every Christian receives spiritual gifts not for personal benefit but for the common good of the church, and that these gifts are essential tools for building a church that can withstand evil and advance God's kingdom until Christ's return.

This sermon from 1 Corinthians 11 addresses the importance of worshiping God freely while maintaining order and respect in corporate worship. Pastor Luke emphasizes that Paul's corrective epistle to the Corinthian church calls believers to imitate Christ-followers rather than worldly standards. The message explores the cultural context of head coverings and worship practices, explaining how Paul sought to remove distractions that hindered genuine worship. The sermon stresses that true worship requires both theological truth and Spirit-led expression, warning against both dead orthodoxy and unbiblical practices. It concludes with a call to participate in authentic Christian community through small groups while remaining firmly grounded in Scripture, distinguishing between orthodox teaching (within Scripture's boundaries) and apostate teaching (outside Scripture's boundaries).

This inaugural sermon at Salt and Light's new facility focuses on the spiritual disciplines of giving, praying, and fasting as means of emptying ourselves to be filled with God's Spirit. Drawing from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, the pastor emphasizes that God is doing a new thing through His church, but this requires believers to develop a secret faith—one that isn't performed for public recognition but practiced in private devotion. The core message challenges the Western church's tendency toward mental assent and public displays of faith while neglecting the secret, intimate relationship with God that produces pure motives and powerful spiritual fruit. Jesus assumes His followers will give, pray, and fast—not for recognition, but in secret where the Father sees and rewards. The sermon calls the congregation to pursue clean hands, pure hearts, and single-mindedness throughout 2026.

Pastor Luke addresses the church's struggle with duplicity—living divided lives between devotion to God and attachment to worldly idols. Drawing from 1 Corinthians 10:14-30, he challenges believers to flee from idolatry and live consecrated lives of singularity rather than duplicity. The sermon emphasizes that God is a jealous God who demands complete devotion and will not share His people with other pursuits. Paul's correction to the Corinthian church mirrors the contemporary Western church's need to resist cultural pressures and live fully surrendered to Christ. The message stresses that God's power flows through purity, humility, and consecration—not talent or accomplishment. True worship requires both Spirit and Truth, and believers must posture themselves with serving hands rather than seeking the upper hand. The call is to empty ourselves before God so He can fill us, recognizing that spiritual warfare often indicates we're moving in the right direction for God's kingdom.

This Advent sermon focuses on the birth of Jesus Christ as the fulfillment of God's eternal Word and sovereign plan. The pastor emphasizes that Christmas is fundamentally about God meeting humanity's greatest need—salvation—by sending a Savior rather than a reformer, judge, or soldier. The message challenges believers to reorient their imagination around God's sovereignty and power, recognizing that He orchestrates human affairs to accomplish His purposes. Central to the sermon is the principle that Christians must "believe first, see second"—a counter-cultural stance that calls believers to trust God's Word before seeing evidence. The pastor urges the congregation to slow down during the Christmas season and huddle around the Christ child, gazing upon the profound mystery of God's love demonstrated through the incarnation, rather than being distracted by the cultural trappings of the holiday.

This sermon explores how God uses both provision and warning from the Exodus story to teach Christians about faith and dependence on Him. The message emphasizes that God doesn't just calm storms—He sometimes creates them to rescue believers from self-reliance. Drawing parallels between Old Testament Israel and New Testament believers, the message challenges the congregation to trust God for daily provision rather than seeking false security through self-sufficiency. The sermon confronts the modern Christian tendency to expect an "easy" faith journey, reminding believers that spiritual warfare and resistance are evidence of God's presence and anointing, not His absence. Ultimately, the message calls Christians to rely completely on God's provision and timing rather than attempting to control circumstances or secure their own futures.

This sermon explores Paul's teaching in 1 Corinthians 8 about the tension between Christian knowledge and Christian love. Pastor Luke addresses how the Corinthian church struggled between legalism and libertinism, emphasizing that knowledge without love indicates a lack of true understanding. The message centers on agape love—God's unconditional, divine love demonstrated through Jesus Christ—as the foundation for how Christians should exercise their freedom. Rather than asserting our rights, believers are called to sacrificially love others by considering how our actions might affect weaker brothers and sisters in faith. The sermon challenges the modern tendency toward idolatry, not just of physical objects but of approval, control, comfort, and security, reminding the congregation that true security and identity are found only in God's presence.

This sermon explores Paul's teaching in 1 Corinthians 7 regarding marriage, singleness, and celibacy, emphasizing that both legalism and licentiousness represent worldliness that compromises Christian faith. The core message challenges believers to align themselves with God's value system rather than cultural norms, particularly in the context of marriage and family life. The message emphasized that marriage is designed not primarily for happiness but for holiness, exposing pride and unforgiveness while forcing spiritual maturity. Single and celibate believers are affirmed as equally valuable in God's kingdom. The sermon emphasizes that worldly troubles in marriage—financial strain, intimacy issues, child-raising disagreements, and spiritual attacks—can only be resolved by aligning with Scripture rather than worldly values. Ultimately, God's grace empowers believers to fulfill whatever He commands, whether in marriage or singleness.