Jesus is the Greatest – by Justin Renton
February 22, 2026
Sermon recap:
Imagine learning about Jesus for the first time. He is the sole mediator, the great high priest who surpasses Moses. He's the radiance of God's glory, greater than the angels, and he holds the universe together. He is the Lord of lords and the King of kings. He is the greatest. What happens when you lose that allegiance to Jesus? You cannot renegotiate the terms of peace to have a relationship with him. We need to reaffirm Jesus as Lord and King, build accountability and a community and walk in the power of the Spirit. Jesus is waiting for honest surrender. If you missed the service, you can watch it in full on our YouTube channel. The sermon starts at 1:02.
Because Jesus reconciled us to God through the cross, we are called to pursue reconciliation with God, one another, and the world around us.
Jesus reconciles us to the Father and teaches us to extend his grace, helping us forgive one another, heal relationships, and walk together in peace.
The physics of the pendulum Picture an old grandfather clock in a quiet hallway. Its long brass pendulum swings steadily: tick, tock, tick, tock. Now give that pendulum a hard shove to the right. It does not simply glide back to the center and stop. It races right past the middle and sways just as far to the left. Left to its own momentum, a pendulum never rests at either extreme; it finds peace only when it hangs still at the center, held by gravity and its fixed point. The church behaves in much the same way. Push her too far toward one side of a truth and she does not gently settle into balance, she swings. Often for a whole generation toward the opposite error, and then back again, wounding people at both ends of the arc. And here is the crucial thing the clock teaches us: the pendulum comes to rest not by being frozen in place, but by being held. Balance is not the absence of force; it is the fixed point that keeps opposing pulls in tension so that the weight can finally hang still.