King's Cross Church (Moscow, ID)
Episodes
200 episodes
The Foundations of the Righteous | Toby Sumpter
This is a Psalm of encouragement, but it comes in a context in which David’s friends were not being particularly encouraging. And so David models what faithful friendship and encouragement looks like, even when it looks like our enemies and tro...
A Storybook Ending (More or Less) | Toby Sumpter
So we come to the end of Judges, an era of turmoil and apostasy, but still marked by God’s faithfulness to His covenant promises. And so the story ends in a sort of raw hopefulness.We might sometimes feel like we live in a similar time o...
Covenant in War | Toby Sumpter
This chapter continues the story of the corruption of Gibeah and the tribe of Benjamin, with judgment falling on them and on the rest of Israel. This teaches lessons about the covenant, just war, and the difference between punishment and discip...
Horror in Gibeah | Toby Sumpter
The Bible is Rated-R, and that is because it deals honestly with the horror of human sin. This chapter is one of the darkest episodes in all of Scripture, and so it is an opportunity to look our sin straight on. The Text: “And it ca...
Was There No King in Israel? | Toby Sumpter
Today we finish the first of two final horror stories in the book of Judges, final gunshots of warning to God’s people about the chaos that fills a land that turns away from God and His word.The Text: “In those days there was no king in ...
Educational Failures | Toby Sumpter
The final episodes in the book of Judges (17-21) are something like an appendix, describing earlier episodes in the era of the judges to help explain why the whole era was so rough. It’s likely that Samuel was the author of Judges, Ruth, and mu...
A Cruciform Savior | Toby Sumpter
The end of Samson’s life is largely a tale of tragic decline, but even in his sin, the Spirit warns us to avoid his failures. And perhaps most important of all, the Spirit teaches us that it is never too late and God loves to hear and answer th...
A Nation of Fools | Toby Sumpter
It is always encouraging to remember that there have been dark days before. There have been corruptions and conspiracies many times, and God has never been worried. God’s plan has never needed any adjustments. From the beginning, God has been d...
Samson the Bridegroom | Toby Sumpter
The story of Samson is a challenging test, a riddle, a parable. Even as we examine the text, the text is examining us – it is testing and cross-examining our loyalties. Samson is not a tidy Sunday school story. He is a wild man, often driven by...
A Wonderful Savior | Toby Sumpter
The message of the whole Bible is that God’s grace is greater than you can possibly imagine. It is an ocean that has no coasts, no bottom. His mercy endures forever.This story of the birth of Samson is one of the places we are reminded o...
Wisdom with Brothers | Toby Sumpter
Building Christian community is one of the hardest things we are engaged in. The relative progress we have made in this venture is one of the greatest signs of God’s blessing. Only the Holy Spirit can knit people like us together.But it ...
Summer Sins | Shawn Paterson
As we enter the summer season, with all its God-given goodness, we would be wise to consider the unique temptations that accompany it. A wise man plans ahead and prepares. Planning is not just needed for Airbnb bookings and National Park passes...
The Magnificent Trinity | Toby Sumpter
In the evangelical classic The Cross and the Switchblade, David Wilkerson tells the story of his ministry to a street gang and the dramatic conversion of Nicky Cruz, a knife-wielding teenage gang leader. About 20 years later Cruz himse...
Race & the Gospel | Toby Sumpter
Because we live in a time where the dictionary has been ripped up and reassembled every few years and then weaponized against Christians, we live in a time that faces peculiar challenges. And this is overlaid on top of the usual temptations tha...
Vows, History, & Kingship | Toby Sumpter
History is covenantal. This means that Christ is Lord of history, and this means that history is demonstrating the covenant faithfulness of God – that God keeps His promises. This also means that history is the story of God’s personal dealings ...
Hard Words for Hard Hearts | Toby Sumpter
America is in the mess it is in because of our idols. The central shrine is the worship of the individual self. And like ancient Israel when the chickens come home to roost, we sometimes try to cry out to God for deliverance. But we have not ye...
The Curse of Jotham | Toby Sumpter
The story of history from the Garden of Eden on is the great war between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent: God vs. Evil. The story’s climax is the death and resurrection of Jesus, but all of history is revealing this story arc....
Legalism, License, and Liberty In Between | Douglas Wilson
By the grace of God, we have seen a genuine Christian community grow up in our midst over the years. We have wanted to be a Bible people, which means Christian liberty on issues like alcohol, and so we have not allowed the traditions of men to ...
Finishing Strong | Toby Sumpter
Like many great leaders, Gideon does not finish as strong as he begins. He is still listed in Hebrews 11 as one of the great heroes of faith, but there is clearly a decline in faithfulness over the course of his life.The relative faithfu...
The Sword of the Lord & Gideon | Toby Sumpter
This is a very famous story – Gideon’s brilliant victory over the Midianites, but it is also at the same time a story about God’s brilliant war against human pride.Scripture is clear that the fundamental tyranny is sin, and pride is the ...
An Easter Message for America | Toby Sumpter
This nation was built by Protestant Christians – puritans and presbyterians who believed in the sovereignty of God. They believed that God was sovereign over the great movements of nations and civilizations because they believed He was exhausti...