Sermon
Reclaiming Ambition: From Towers to Altars
Center Church
Speaker: Ben Saunders
April 13, 2025 · 48 min
Summary
Genesis 11 presents the Tower of Babel as a cautionary tale about pride and misplaced ambition. The sermon explores how ambition without submission to God's lordship leads to ruin, examining the three underlying dynamics: the power of language, the pride beneath human plans, and God's merciful judgment. Listeners learn to evaluate their own lives through the lens of what they're building and for whom.
Highlights
Ambition without submission to the lordship of Jesus Christ will always lead to ruin.
Selfish ambition builds towers where godly ambition builds altars, and only one of those is gonna last, and I promise you, it's not the tower.
Jesus didn't climb a tower to make a name for himself. He descended into death to give you and I a name.