Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | Jonah 2 features Jonah's time in the belly of the fish: his desperate plea, his nuanced prayer, and his renewed perspective. There in the depths of darkness and disobedience, he realizes that even there -- of all places! -- God gave him everything he needed for who God's calling him to be, what God's calling him to do, and where God's calling him to go. Truly, if God is with there, of all places, He is there in all places. And the same is true for us today.

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | At the end of the age, the great battle takes place between Good and Evil, once and for all. According to Revelation 16, it transpires at a place called 'Armageddon.' But what is it? Where is it? Is it a literal place, or is it a grand symbol pointing to an ultimate event? Wherever it takes place and whenever it happens, one thing is sure: the victory is Christ's.

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | The Kidron Valley is arguably the most significant valley in all of ancient Israel because it is layered with history, nuance, tradition, and prophecy unlike any other. And in amazing way, it points to both Jesus and the end of days with absolute hope.

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | Romans is the explanation of Genesis to Jesus, answering the long-awaited question, "How can I be right with God?" The reality is, the desire for righteousness is encoded into people's hearts. We all want to be proven 'right' and 'made right' in the deepest of ways. But as Paul shows us, that righteousness can only provided from the outside, from heaven - not manufactured from within or accomplished from around. A rightness with a perfectly righteous God must only come from Him, by grace, which we receive through faith.

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | God's deliberate answer to the vicious, destructive cycles in Israel was not another law, a better economy, a greater healthcare system, or more opportunity. It was a king. In the background of national chaos and catastrophe, God was quietly working redemption through a wayward family and broken situation. Through this, King David would one day come. And further down, King Jesus would come to ultimately deliver us from the bondage of vicious cycles.

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | Asaph opens up about his own struggle with envy, and how it almost derailed his entire life. As he addresses the assumptions, actions, and accusations that got him there, he warns us about the subtleties of envy that lurk in our heart. But like him, in Christ, we worship can be our last word - the vertical, not the horizontal.

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | The apostle Paul argues that greed is more than just about riches or possession; it's a deep-seated, default-mode spiritual posture that looks to money to meet soul needs in only the way God can provide. He uses three images - a trap, a root, a dagger - to show the nature and danger of greed in our lives.

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | After the people of God enter the land and conquer the land, chapters 13 and 14 mark a new phase in the storyline: their time to inherit the land. As each of the twelve tribes stands by to receive their apportioned territory, one man steps up: Caleb. And based on what little we know about him from the wilderness, we see even more: a faith that hasn't waned one bit.