When Israel failed to live as the Called-Out Kingdom God desired, he sent them back into the world, via the exiles. But God still expected holiness in their exile. What can we learn from God’s expectations for exiled Israel, and from Israel’s example of living in a nation that did not know or love Yahweh?
(Preaching on the way the church interacts with the world around it. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on January 18, 2026.)
In our study of how the church can or should interact with the world around it, a consideration of the holiness and special nature of Israel can be instructive. How did God instruct Israel to live and order society differently than the nations around them, and how do these differences matter or apply today?
(Preaching on how the church interacts with the world. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on January 11, 2026.)
This is the first lesson in a series on how the church can or should interact with the world around it, in politics, culture, social pressures, communities, etc. In this first sermon we consider the way God has always called his people out of the world to be something special or different, and lay the groundwork for what is to come.
(Preaching on the church in the world. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on January 4, 2026.)
Watts in the Word 