Experimental Sermons Podcast

Faithful exposition of God's Word doesn't improve people; it exposes and provokes them.Stay Connected:Follow Pastor Dell on X at https://x.com/jakedell73.Subscribe to Experimental Sermons at https://jwdell.substack.com/.Join us for Sunday worship at https://firstchurchwoodbury.org/. Get full access to Experimental Sermons at jwdell.substack.com/subscribe

In this sermon for Last Epiphany (Year A), we confront the hard truth: compromise with the enemies of God—whether through tradition, experience, or cultural retreat—leads only to defeat.From the commanding voice in the cloud to the Psalms’ call to “Kiss the Son,” the message is clear: listen to Him alone, wield His Word as our weapon, and sing His truth in the face of a crumbling world.Or watch everything—your children, your grandchildren, your country—slip away.Stay Connected:Follow Pastor Dell on X at https://x.com/jakedell73.Subscribe to Experimental Sermons at https://jwdell.substack.com/.Join us for Sunday worship at https://firstchurchwoodbury.org/. Get full access to Experimental Sermons at jwdell.substack.com/subscribe

America is drowning in moral chaos—cities gripped by rebellion, families shattered by lawless ideologies, and the Church too often silent as darkness spreads unchecked. But what if the same light that first broke through Galilee’s ancient gloom is the only power that can restore God’s righteous order today? This sermon pulls no punches: moral softness is crippling the Church and nation alike, yet the cross has real power to heal weakness, boldly rebuke sin, and renew our covenant from the ground up. Listen or read “Restoring God’s Moral Order: From Galilee’s Darkness to Minneapolis’s Rebellion” and discover why repentance isn’t optional—it’s the urgent path forward.Stay Connected:Follow Pastor Dell on X at https://x.com/jakedell73.Subscribe to Experimental Sermons at https://jwdell.substack.com/.Join us for Sunday worship at https://firstchurchwoodbury.org/. Get full access to Experimental Sermons at jwdell.substack.com/subscribe

In John’s stunned question—“Do you come to me?”—we hear the entire gospel: the sinless Son steps into the Jordan not because He needs repentance, but because He comes to us first in sovereign grace, bearing our double curse (the judgment of death for all and the covenant penalties we deserve) so the waters of judgment become the waters of renewal and life. No more clinging to fleshly generation or humanistic striving; only His seeking love descends like a dove, declaring over broken sinners: “This is my beloved Son… and you are mine too.” New episode drops Sunday afternoon—subscribe wherever you get podcasts and join us at the Jordan, where grace finds us before we ever find it.Stay Connected:Follow Pastor Dell on X at https://x.com/jakedell73.Subscribe to Experimental Sermons at https://jwdell.substack.com/.Join us for Sunday worship at https://firstchurchwoodbury.org/. Get full access to Experimental Sermons at jwdell.substack.com/subscribe

Two weeks after Christmas, the trees are curbside trash and the sentimental baby Jesus is boxed away—but what if the real fury boiling in hearts (and statehouses) isn’t over a harmless doll, but a King who demands every throne? Herod smiled, said “that I too may worship,” then plotted massacre to silence the threat.Today, Herod Lamont, Herod Murphy, Herod DeLauro, Herod Tong, and Herod Mamdani hear the same gospel and conspire just as subtly. This Sunday, uncover the biblical opposite of worship—insincere lips hiding murderous intent—and the one explosive doctrine that flips their conspiracy into your unbreakable hope. You can't unhear this.Stay Connected:Follow Pastor Dell on X at https://x.com/jakedell73.Subscribe to Experimental Sermons at https://jwdell.substack.com/.Join us for Sunday worship at https://firstchurchwoodbury.org/. Get full access to Experimental Sermons at jwdell.substack.com/subscribe