The End of the Beginning: Do I Belong? 9.6.2026 11 am

This sermon explores the universal human need to belong and the questions that arise during life's transitions and endings. The pastor teaches that every ending creates a new beginning, and that doubt is not the enemy of faith -- self-sufficiency is. Drawing primarily from Matthew chapter 10, the sermon challenges listeners to examine what or whom they have truly tied their identity to, arguing that all people belong to something, and that the fruit of those allegiances shows up in how they live. The pastor calls listeners to release false or competing allegiances -- whether politics, status, or self-image -- and return to their identity as claimed children of God, rooted in baptism and secured by Christ's unconditional love.