This sermon explores the book of Ruth as a portrait of biblical redemption: not merely forgiveness, but being bought back into belonging through God's loyal love (chesed).

Through Naomi’s loss, Ruth’s steadfast commitment, and Boaz’s redeeming action, Pastor Josh traces how ordinary faithfulness becomes God’s means of provision and restoration.

The message shows how personal acts of loyalty and kindness participate in God’s larger rescue story — leading from a small family to the line of David and ultimately to Jesus — and calls listeners to live out that redeeming love today.

This episode explores 1 Peter 2:4–12 and Psalm 127 (with Psalm 128), showing how believers are "living stones"—temples where heaven and earth intersect. It connects the Psalms' prayers to present faith, the vocation of work as worship, and the comfort that God builds, guards, and remains faithful across generations.

Through reflections on parenting, anxiety, and baby dedications, the message encourages trusting God’s partnership in building lives and passing on faith, finding rest and purpose in the reality of God’s presence today.

This sermon explores the Advent theme of peace, focusing on Isaiah 9 and the title "Prince of Peace" (Sar Shalom). It contrasts the violent, fearful world of Jesus' birth with his humble, sacrificial life and explains peace as wholeness, not merely the absence of trouble.

Through Scripture, personal stories of grief and gratitude, and practical challenges, Paster Amy invites listeners to live out Christlike peace by showing kindness, generosity, prayer, and sacrificial love during the Christmas season and beyond.

This episode explores Isaiah 8:19–9:7 and the Advent message: don’t seek spirits or empty optimism but inquire of God. It traces Israel’s dark fear, the prophetic promise of a coming light in Galilee, and the birth of a child called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Drawing on stories from Stockdale to Bonhoeffer, the sermon distinguishes Christian hope from naive optimism, describing hope as waiting with expectation in God’s fulfilled and yet-to-be-completed promise, and calling listeners to live as carriers of light in the in-between.

This episode recounts Joshua 3–4: the priests carrying the covenant step into the Jordan, the waters part, and twelve stones are set up as a memorial at Gilgal to teach future generations.

Interwoven is a Pastor Josh's personal testimony about the 38-year story of Living Word Church — humble beginnings in garages and libraries, community-building, and how those "stones" of memory reveal Gods faithfulness and inspire courage to move forward.

This episode walks through the story of Job — his prosperity, sudden loss, raw lament, and the long debate with friends about suffering and divine justice.

God answers not with explanations but with a whirlwind, inviting Job into wonder and humility; the sermon draws a bridge from Job to Jesus as the true righteous sufferer and the hope of resurrection.

Practical takeaways include honest lament, quiet presence with those who suffer, worship beyond outcomes, and trusting God's wisdom amid mystery.

This message explores the biblical story of the Shunammite woman (2 Kings 4:8–37) and Pastor Amy's reflections on how God begins, sustains, and completes our lives. Using personal anecdotes and Scripture, the message emphasizes making room for God, trusting Him through loss and disappointment, and seeking the promise-maker in times of brokenness.

Listeners are invited to release control, embrace the rock in hard seasons, and allow God to bring restoration and purpose—reminding us that nothing is wasted and God is the promise keeper.

Part 2 in the series "The Way of Wisdom" examines Ecclesiastes as a critical voice in the wisdom tradition, contrasting Proverbs’ ordered guidance with the teacher’s verdict of life as hevel (vapor). Pastor Josh walks through the teacher’s experiment with pleasure, work, and wealth and the repeated refrain that many pursuits feel fleeting and inexplicable.

He highlights three hard realities under the sun—time’s march, universal death, and life’s randomness—then points to the poem “a time for everything,” practical steps to find joy in the present, and the author’s final call to fear God and keep his commandments. It closes by showing how Jesus, as wisdom embodied, gives lasting meaning beyond the mist.