Sermon
I Dare You to Move
Stonebrook Community Church
Speaker: Matt Heerema
November 30, 2025 · 26 min
Summary
Solomon teaches from Ecclesiastes 11 that because God sovereignly controls all outcomes, believers should take calculated risks, try new things, and work diligently despite uncertainty. Young people especially are urged to embrace life boldly, remembering they will answer to God for their choices.
Highlights
The worst that can happen when you try something is the thing that's going to happen if you don't try anything. So you got to stand up and take risks and try things.
We're safe to try things and fail because our identity is now not in our sense of self-worth, but rather our sense of meaning in our life is found in the fact that we now belong to Christ.
Trust God. Trust his promises. Trust his commands. He has made his will for you abundantly known. Not what career you're supposed to go into. Not who you're supposed to marry. But how you're supposed to operate when you're figuring those things out.