The expository teaching of Reforming Truth Church, including Jeremiah Hurt, Joshua Pangborn, and Troy Napier, taught on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings.
Jonah ran from God, went down into the sea, and ended up in the belly of a great fish, and only there did he finally cry out to the Lord. This sermon follows Jonah’s prayer from the depths and shows how God uses trouble to draw His people near. Jonah points us to a better Jonah, Jesus, who went down into death in perfect obedience and out of love for His enemies. And because salvation belongs to the Lord from start to finish, we are secure in Christ, and our good works flow from remembering His mercy rather than from fear. When trouble comes, fly to Jesus.
18 Oct 2026
Jonah 1:1-17
We walk through Jonah’s flight from God’s call to preach to Nineveh, noting how he keeps going “down” (to Joppa, into the ship, into its lowest part) as sin always leads downward. He highlights the irony of Jonah’s orthodox confession of God as Creator of sea and land while living in open contradiction to it, and argues from chapter 4 that Jonah fled because he knew God was merciful and didn’t want Nineveh to repent. Jesus’s three references to “the sign of Jonah” are cited as evidence the story is historical.
The central point is that God pursues Jonah, and so pursues his people. Salvation and sanctification rest on God’s faithfulness, not on the believer’s obedience, and our disobedience cannot thwart his plan. Drawing on Psalm 139, Ezekiel 34, John 10, 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24, and a quote from James Boice, he closes with a self-examination question about where we, like Jonah, are being stubborn or refusing to repent, always tied to Christ as advocate and the assurance that nothing can separate us from God’s love.
11 Oct 2026
Colossians 3:1-17
The sermon traces how Paul grounds the Christian life in what Christ has already done: Colossians 1-2 establish Christ’s sufficiency and that nothing can be added to his work, so chapter 3 moves to “stop being who you used to be, and be who you are.” The sermon uses the law and gospel distinction (including the three uses of the law) to argue that our standing before God rests on Christ’s righteousness, not our performance. When believers fail, as they inevitably will, they rest in Christ as their advocate, citing 1 John 2 and closing with Romans 8’s assurance that nothing can separate us from his love.
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