Sermon
Your Life: By Jesus for Jesus
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Speaker: John Elmore
February 23, 2026 · 41 min
Jesus / ChristologyDiscipleshipGospelChurch / EcclesiologyColossians 1:15–231 Corinthians 12Romans 1
Summary
Teaching through Colossians 1:15–23, the pastor argues that Christians often live with a "single mentality in a married reality"—pursuing autonomous self-rule despite being covenantally bound to Christ. The sermon unfolds Christ's supremacy in three movements: over all creation, over the church, and over each believer individually, calling listeners to surrender all areas of life to His lordship.
Highlights
The secret to every marriage issue is that one or both of you are living with a single mentality when living in a married reality.
We have agency but we do not have autonomy—we have what you might say is a God-rule; we do not live for ourselves anymore, rather we live for God.
I believe many are saved; I think fewer are surrendered. We're content to be like, 'Yeah, you can save me from hell when I die, but I will live my life this side of the grave for me.'