Whether you're reflecting on personal growth or seeking direction for the year ahead, this message will uplift and equip you to step into 2025 with hope and resolve.

Pastor Frank encourages listeners to examine their own lives, asking how they can serve with courage, grace, and a heart fixed on Jesus. This sermon is a call to embrace our God-given purpose and finish the race with joy.

Through vivid storytelling and theological insight, Trae explores the faith of Elizabeth and Zechariah, the miraculous nature of John's arrival, and the power of Zechariah’s prophetic song, the Benedictus. He challenges listeners to embrace their calling as voices preparing the way for Jesus, just as John did.

Whether you're reflecting on the Advent season or seeking encouragement to step into your divine purpose, this sermon will leave you inspired and ready to proclaim the hope and salvation found in Christ.

Through biblical insight and practical application, Pastor Frank highlights the importance of not just hearing God’s Word but putting it into action. This sermon serves as both a wake-up call and a source of hope, encouraging listeners to evaluate their faith and commitment in light of eternity.

Tune in to discover how living in obedience to Jesus anchors us in life’s storms and prepares us for the Kingdom of Heaven.

Of course you have!

 That is what Pastor Frank unpacks, discerns, and understands in this special one-night Wednesday class at Redemption Church Arcadia.

Over the four weeks of January 2024, we will journey into one of the prominent wisdom literature books of the Hebrew Bible: Proverbs. The book of Proverbs is a compilation of time-tested wisdom that brings life to the one who implements it and disaster for the fool who shuns it. Its 31 chapters are written to describe the wise person and the foolish person, then to try to persuade the person who has yet to decide which one he or she will embrace to land on the side of wisdom.

Proverbs had been described as “goads and nails.”  What does that mean?

(1) A goad is what a shepherd uses to keep his or her sheep from straying away from the right path – to keep the sheep from drifting into foolishness that could eventually endanger their life. We all know how foolish sheep – we – can be. Proverbs gently, but with beautiful and strong rhetoric, pushes us toward life-giving wisdom and away from life-endangering foolishness. Only the fool believes they do not need wisdom. That’s why we need the goad.

(2) Nails refers to the fact that you and I need a solid, sturdy foundation on which to build our lives. In 1 Corinthians Chapter 1, Paul reminds us that Jesus IS wisdom – the incarnation of all that leads us into life. In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus Himself also teaches that the wise person is the one who builds his house (life) on the sturdy foundation of a rock, not sand.

Join us as we discuss and deliberate the instruction, correction, and joyful implementation of God’s wisdom in our lives.

Over the four weeks of January 2024, we will journey into one of the prominent wisdom literature books of the Hebrew Bible: Proverbs. The book of Proverbs is a compilation of time-tested wisdom that brings life to the one who implements it and disaster for the fool who shuns it. Its 31 chapters are written to describe the wise person and the foolish person, then to try to persuade the person who has yet to decide which one he or she will embrace to land on the side of wisdom.

Proverbs had been described as “goads and nails.”  What does that mean?

(1) A goad is what a shepherd uses to keep his or her sheep from straying away from the right path – to keep the sheep from drifting into foolishness that could eventually endanger their life. We all know how foolish sheep – we – can be. Proverbs gently, but with beautiful and strong rhetoric, pushes us toward life-giving wisdom and away from life-endangering foolishness. Only the fool believes they do not need wisdom. That’s why we need the goad.

(2) Nails refers to the fact that you and I need a solid, sturdy foundation on which to build our lives. In 1 Corinthians Chapter 1, Paul reminds us that Jesus IS wisdom – the incarnation of all that leads us into life. In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus Himself also teaches that the wise person is the one who builds his house (life) on the sturdy foundation of a rock, not sand.

Join us as we discuss and deliberate the instruction, correction, and joyful implementation of God’s wisdom in our lives.

Over the four weeks of January 2024, we will journey into one of the prominent wisdom literature books of the Hebrew Bible: Proverbs. The book of Proverbs is a compilation of time-tested wisdom that brings life to the one who implements it and disaster for the fool who shuns it. Its 31 chapters are written to describe the wise person and the foolish person, then to try to persuade the person who has yet to decide which one he or she will embrace to land on the side of wisdom.

Proverbs had been described as “goads and nails.”  What does that mean?

(1) A goad is what a shepherd uses to keep his or her sheep from straying away from the right path – to keep the sheep from drifting into foolishness that could eventually endanger their life. We all know how foolish sheep – we – can be. Proverbs gently, but with beautiful and strong rhetoric, pushes us toward life-giving wisdom and away from life-endangering foolishness. Only the fool believes they do not need wisdom. That’s why we need the goad.

(2) Nails refers to the fact that you and I need a solid, sturdy foundation on which to build our lives. In 1 Corinthians Chapter 1, Paul reminds us that Jesus IS wisdom – the incarnation of all that leads us into life. In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus Himself also teaches that the wise person is the one who builds his house (life) on the sturdy foundation of a rock, not sand.

Join us as we discuss and deliberate the instruction, correction, and joyful implementation of God’s wisdom in our lives.

Over the four weeks of January 2024, we will journey into one of the prominent wisdom literature books of the Hebrew Bible: Proverbs. The book of Proverbs is a compilation of time-tested wisdom that brings life to the one who implements it and disaster for the fool who shuns it. Its 31 chapters are written to describe the wise person and the foolish person, then to try to persuade the person who has yet to decide which one he or she will embrace to land on the side of wisdom.

Proverbs had been described as “goads and nails.”  What does that mean?

(1) A goad is what a shepherd uses to keep his or her sheep from straying away from the right path – to keep the sheep from drifting into foolishness that could eventually endanger their life. We all know how foolish sheep – we – can be. Proverbs gently, but with beautiful and strong rhetoric, pushes us toward life-giving wisdom and away from life-endangering foolishness. Only the fool believes they do not need wisdom. That’s why we need the goad.

(2) Nails refers to the fact that you and I need a solid, sturdy foundation on which to build our lives. In 1 Corinthians Chapter 1, Paul reminds us that Jesus IS wisdom – the incarnation of all that leads us into life. In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus Himself also teaches that the wise person is the one who builds his house (life) on the sturdy foundation of a rock, not sand.

Join us as we discuss and deliberate the instruction, correction, and joyful implementation of God’s wisdom in our lives.

Throughout the Bible the Trinity has revealed Himself through the triune of unity. Salvation? All three. Discipleship?
All three. Sanctification? All three. But there is one event that although all three persons acted as one God, only one person of the Trinity took on a new nature. That is the Incarnation. As a bride has her mother and sister help her put on her wedding dress, the Eternal Father and Eternal Spirit helped the Son put on flesh. All three persons have been present and active throughout history culminating in the crescendo of God revealing Himself in the incarnation.

Here, Pastor Frank continues our Advent 2023 series, Becoming Flesh, looking at Colossians 1.

Throughout the Bible the Trinity has revealed Himself through the triune of unity. Salvation? All three. Discipleship?
All three. Sanctification? All three. But there is one event that although all three persons acted as one God, only one person of the Trinity took on a new nature. That is the Incarnation. As a bride has her mother and sister help her put on her wedding dress, the Eternal Father and Eternal Spirit helped the Son put on flesh. All three persons have been present and active throughout history culminating in the crescendo of God revealing Himself in the incarnation.

Here, Pastor Trae continues our Advent 2023 series, Becoming Flesh, looking at the incarnation through the lense of the Holy Spirit.

Throughout the Bible the Trinity has revealed Himself through the triune of unity. Salvation? All three. Discipleship?
All three. Sanctification? All three. But there is one event that although all three persons acted as one God, only one person of the Trinity took on a new nature. That is the Incarnation. As a bride has her mother and sister help her put on her wedding dress, the Eternal Father and Eternal Spirit helped the Son put on flesh. All three persons have been present and active throughout history culminating in the crescendo of God revealing Himself in the incarnation.

Here, Pastor Tyler continues our Advent 2023 series, Becoming Flesh, looking at the incarnation through the lense of Jesus Christ the Son.

Throughout the Bible the Trinity has revealed Himself through the triune of unity. Salvation? All three. Discipleship?
All three. Sanctification? All three. But there is one event that although all three persons acted as one God, only one person of the Trinity took on a new nature. That is the Incarnation. As a bride has her mother and sister help her put on her wedding dress, the Eternal Father and Eternal Spirit helped the Son put on flesh. All three persons have been present and active throughout history culminating in the crescendo of God revealing Himself in the incarnation.

Here, Pastor Frank begins our Advent 2023 series, Becoming Flesh, looking at the incarnation through the lense of God the Father.

God delights in giving us his kingdom. Therefore, we don’t live for the here and now only. Instead, we use our resources to invest in eternal treasure. This blesses us even now, because our hearts follow our money.

We are not masters of our money, but stewards of God’s money. God is the master, and we must live as faithful and wise stewards, eager and ready for his return.

In the ‘Parable of the Rich Fool,’ Jesus reframes the value of wealth and riches. Far more valuable than worldly wealth is being rich toward God. 

Relating well to money isn’t about the amount of money a person has, but about how content a person is with what he has. Jesus wants his people to be content because he is a trustworthy provider.