The Summit Church
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The Summit Church
Sermon messages from Pastor J.D. Greear and the pastoral team of The Summit Church. The Summit is one church that meets in many locations around Raleigh-Durham, N.C.
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The Love of Christ
What drives your life? Whether money, or our children, or the approval of others, we all have something that drives us, even controls us. In this week...
Plastic Sacks and Gucci Bags
The gospel is so beautiful and valuable, yet God chooses to place this great treasure in “jars of clay.” It's almost incomprehensible, really, but it'...
The Wonder of Jesus
When we think about reading Luke 2, our thoughts naturally turn to the story of Jesus’ birth. But what follows is the account of a man named Simeon, a...
Prove Yourself
We've all heard the voice of that inner critic, telling us that we're not enough, that we need to constantly prove ourselves. It's exhausting to try t...
Turn the Cat Around
When we evaluate why many people aren't generous, it's probably not because they're selfish. More likely, they're battling either fear or pride (or ma...
We’re All Nervous When We Talk About Money
Let’s face it: It’s hard to talk about money. But what if we reoriented our perspective on it? In fact, what if we reoriented our entire lives in resp...
Do You Care?
What comes to mind when you think of caring for people? Maybe it’s bringing a meal, writing a note of encouragement, or providing a place to stay for...
The Why of Your Pain
It’s a universal experience: going through suffering but struggling to understand the “why” behind it. In the Apostle Paul’s case, much of the reason...
Hypocrisy: How to Have Wrong Righteousness
A popular criticism often leveled against Christians is that they are hypocrites, meaning that they say one thing but do another. But Jesus addresses...
The Mission of Renewal: 5 Practices
What does a bold, faithful witness to Jesus look like in 2025? After all, we're living in an age where Christianity is increasingly viewed as a proble...
How to Be a Godly Sinner
Psalm 51 is widely known as the psalm in which David confesses his sins related to Bathsheba and her husband. But in this week’s message, Pastor Bryan...
The Great Beginning
The final chapters of the book of Revelation present the end of the world as we know it—but there's also a glorious beginning. In this week’s message...
The Summit's Mission and Message | J.D. Greear
The gospel is beautiful for so many reasons, but one of them is its power to unite people from different cultures, family backgrounds, and circumstanc...
The Familiar Stranger
In this week’s message, Pastor Tyler Staton, our guest preacher from Bridgetown Church, reintroduces us to the person of the Holy Spirit by tracing fi...
A Party, a Battle, a Kingdom, and a Judgment
What do you most look forward to? Maybe it's a vacation that you've been anticipating for a long time, or a new job that you can't wait to start. Mayb...
A Tale of Two Cities
We're all familiar with the experience of being tourists, but exiles? No way. And yet, we are told in multiple places in the Bible to think of ourselv...
Beast Games
If you’ve ever watched a movie with a big reveal the SECOND time, it’s a much different experience. The suspense is gone, and you can be calm, cool, a...
Sweet And Bitter
Judgments. Fire and hail. A beast from a bottomless pit. Taken on their own, quite frankly, these things seem like the stuff of nightmares. In the mid...
Stop Playing Around
No one likes being caught off guard or feeling unprepared. But the truth is, though we don't know the exact time that it will happen, we know that Jes...
Impossible. Difficult. Done.
If you're like most people, once you make it to Revelation 6, you decide your devotional time would probably be better spent elsewhere. After all, wha...
Searching for a Hero
We were created to worship. Even those who claim no interest in religion will inevitably worship something, whether it's fame, wealth, family, or anot...
The View From Heaven
The proper perspective can change everything. What we see is limited by our human nature, and the temptation at certain points in life is to conclude...
Walking in Truth
The art of letter writing is one that has largely fallen by the wayside in today's highly technological society. But taking the time to write a person...
Wake Up, Keep Going, and Stop Being Lame: Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea
“Lukewarm” isn't really a desirable trait in, well, just about anything. After all, is there anyone who actually looks forward to a lukewarm cup of co...
The Enemy Within: Pergamum & Thyatira
There are many threats that the church faces today, but the most dangerous may lie within, in the form of sin that we tolerate and compromise that we...
The Manifold, Robust Worship of the Lamb
In this week’s message from Revelation 5–7, Pastor Mitchel Lee of Grace Community Church speaks about multiethnic unity.
To the Churches in … Ephesus and Smyrna: Beware Small Compromises
We may think that making a small compromise here and there doesn't matter. But the truth is that there is inherent danger in compromising our beliefs...
Unveiled
Ask your friends which book of the Bible they most enjoy reading for personal quiet time, and it's highly unlikely that anyone will choose Revelation....
The Intoxicated Christian
When navigating the currents of this broken, sinful world, our tendency is often to respond like someone rowing a boat (that is, out of our own streng...
Holy Spirit: Let Me Upgrade You
Mention the Holy Spirit and reactions are likely to range from excitement to uncertainty or even discomfort. But for the early church, the Holy Spirit...
The Tabernacle: Space for God
As we close our journey through the book of Exodus, we come to a seemingly anticlimactic ending—the construction of the tabernacle. You might think it...
Let's Try This Again
To one degree or another, we all long for transformation, whether on a physical level or a spiritual one. In this week's message from Exodus 34, Pasto...
Your God Is Too Small
In many cultures around the world, names are a big deal. More than just what someone is called, names often imply identity and even purpose. In this w...
Udderly Wrong: A Moo-ving Tale of Spiritual Rebellion
We tend to read the story of the Israelites making the golden calf and ask, “How could they?” But we fail to realize that what the Israelites were gui...
Consider the Cross: Eternity’s Dividing Line
At Easter, we consider the cross and the resurrection, of course—but this consideration ultimately demands a response from us. It demands that a choic...
The Sabbath: Remember and Rest
Rather than a necessity, the idea of rest can often seem like an unattainable luxury. After all, who has time for rest in a society that prizes consta...
Freedom
We love the idea of freedom, but what does it really mean? Clearly, the freedom offered by the world is drastically different from that offered by Chr...
Why the Big 10
In a secular, post-Christian society like the one we find ourselves living in, the Ten Commandments aren't exactly popular. Cries to "live your own tr...
Church 101
We all have an important role to play in the body of believers. This truth, though seemingly ingrained in us now, was something that God had to intent...
Wilderness U
You aren't likely to find many people who genuinely enjoy tests, but they certainly have a way of revealing where we are lacking in knowledge. In this...