MESSAGES
THIS WEEK'S SERMON
The Path to Financial Peace
March 22, 2026
What if the reason you feel stuck financially isn’t because you don’t make enough—but because no one ever taught you how to think about money? There's a tension most people live with: income goes up, but so does stress. We’ve been sold the lie that a higher standard of living leads to a better life, yet many are discovering the opposite—more income, more pressure, more anxiety. If money is a magnifier, then it’s not fixing anything—it’s revealing everything. And until that changes, nothing changes.
But what if there’s a different way to live? God's word sermon lays out a clear framework for financial peace—not through getting more, but through creating margin. With practical wisdom on giving, investing, debt, and long-term thinking, you’ll see how small, faithful decisions today can reshape your future for decades to come. Because this isn’t just about money—it’s about freedom, legacy, and learning to steward what God has entrusted to you in a way that leads to His Glory and our joy.
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PREACHER
Jason Clarke -
PASSAGE
1 Timothy 6:17-19
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Rise Preaching Values
A Christo-Centric Hermeneutic
This may sound complicated, but, what it means is we interpret all of scripture through the life and teachings of Jesus.
We learn this from the New Testament epistles as they interpret all of Scripture through the lens of the Gospel. Without a Christo-Centric Hermeneutic (a.k.a. “Jesus-Centered Interpretation”) we can find ourselves teaching deistic moralism on one end, or feel-good self-help on the other. Ultimately, both fail us practically and eternally. In reality, Jesus is the only hero of Scripture—therefore, Jesus should be the culmination of every single sermon.
Expositional Preaching
What this means is the message of the sermon comes from the meaning of the text. John Stott says this: “To expound Scripture is to bring out of the text what is there and expose it to view. The expositor opens what appears to be closed, makes plain what is obscure, unravels what is knotted, and unfolds what is tightly packed.”
Paul admonishes the young church planter Timothy to “Preach the Word.” The power of preaching does not come from man-made wisdom or creative ideas; the power of preaching is in the Spirit-empowered exposition of the truths of who God is, how He loves, and how we are to respond to His Word. At Rise, we teach both through the books of the Bible and expositionally through themes found within the Scriptures.
Real-Life Application
Lastly, preaching must be applied to our actual, every-day lives. Preaching is not teaching people about the Bible; preaching is teaching people the way of Jesus with the Bible as our only authority.
The power of the Gospel is that it reaches into every aspect of our lives: from marriage and sexuality, to work and purpose, to wounds and broken relationships. When the Bible presents theological truth, it almost always weds that revelation to relational application. To paraphrase James 1:22, we are not just attempting to understand scripture, as followers of Jesus, we are called to live it out.