Don't Hide From Your Flesh

Chris Holm | SEP 13, 2026

Scripture: Pursuit

Categories: Serving Others, The Gospel and Salvation, Faith and Trust

Sermon summary

We wrapped up our Pursuit series this week by landing on our last core value, living the gospel. It would be easy to turn that into another list of things we're supposed to do. Serve more. Give more. Share our faith more. Instead we asked a different question. Why would anyone actually do any of that with no strings attached?

John 1 tells us the Word became flesh. God didn't send us an idea, he sent us a body, something with a pulse. That same logic shows up in Isaiah 58, where God tells his people not to hide from their own flesh, meaning the hungry and homeless person standing in front of them is just as human as they are.

We also talked about what faith really is. Not a certainty score we have to defend, but a relational trust we live inside of, closer to a marriage than a debate. We watched Jesus stand in front of Pilate claiming to be the truth while Pilate asked what truth even meant anymore.

Our whole life gets built on one center, Jesus Christ crucified. Everything else we hold with an open hand.

Scripture references: John 1:14, Isaiah 58:6-7, John 14:6, John 18:37-38, James 2:15-17, John 5:39, 1 Corinthians 2:2

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