Pastor Jim uses Jeremiah 6:16 and 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 to stress that true Christian living involves more than just belief—it requires active participation as a member of the church. He argues that membership is a call to unity, diversity, and mutual responsibility, where each person's unique gifts are vital for the health and mission of the entire body of Christ.

This sermon primarily focuses on two main biblical topics: 1) The role of parents as gospel ambassadors based on Micah 6:8, emphasizing justice, mercy, and humility as core qualities that reflect God's character. 2) The importance of understanding that parenting should be driven by grace rather than law, with parents recognizing their own need for God's grace while representing His redemptive work to their children.

The sermon explains that God's design for marriage is based on covenant rather than feelings - while human thinking believes love leads to covenant, God's truth is that covenant leads to deep, lasting love. The marriage covenant provides safety that enables honesty, confession, repentance and healing, ultimately reflecting God's covenant relationship with believers.

This sermon centers on finding supernatural joy in a world filled with pain by grounding oneself in three "marvelous works" of God from Psalm 98. These sources of joy are God's revelation of salvation through Jesus, His unwavering faithfulness to His promises, and the future certainty of His perfect justice.

This sermon on communion teaches that it is both a vertical act of receiving God's grace and a horizontal act of extending that same grace to one another. Grounded in 1 Corinthians 11, the message calls the church to reject division and favoritism, recognizing that true communion is about unity and loving support for all believers.

This sermon on Genesis 2 teaches that marriage, when plagued by self-absorption and apathy, can only find its purpose by pursuing the covenantal oneness that mirrors the Trinity. Ultimately, marriage is a picture of the gospel, meant to reflect Christ's faithful and loving pursuit of His Church.