The Church of Canton

The Attributes of God: God is Sovereign

Isaiah reveals a sovereign God who alone rules over all things, contrasting His power and faithfulness with the emptiness of idols, and calling His people to trust Him even in exile and uncertainty. This message unpacks how God’s sovereignty works alongside our free will, inviting us to surrender control, trust His purposes in every circumstance, and live with confidence that He is always working for our good and His glory.

The Attributes of God: God is Love

God’s love is often misunderstood as either too easy or too hard, but while it is freely given by grace, it came at the ultimate cost—the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This message unpacks how God’s love pursues us, meets us in our brokenness, and calls us to receive it by faith, be transformed by it, and reflect it to the world.

Good Friday

As we remember Good Friday, Jesus’ final seven statements from the cross reveal forgiveness, salvation, compassion, suffering, and ultimate triumph. In His last words, we see the heart of the gospel—and the invitation to trust, follow, and live transformed by His finished work.

The Attributes of God: God is Gracious

This sermon unpacks how God’s grace isn’t just forgiveness—it’s His active power in our everyday weakness, giving us what we don’t deserve while withholding what we do. Through Paul’s story, we’re reminded that real strength isn’t found in having it all together, but in trusting that even when the struggle doesn’t go away, God’s presence and grace are more than enough.

The Attributes of God: God is Merciful

This message unpacks God’s mercy as the heart of who He is—shown through His love, compassion, and grace. It highlights how mercy and truth always go together: God doesn’t ignore sin, but He meets us with forgiveness and a clear path forward.
From Moses to Jesus to the cross, we see that God’s mercy isn’t just a one-time gift—it’s something we live in daily. It calls us to repent, trust Him, and reflect that same mercy to others.
A simple but powerful reminder: what God is holding back is what we deserve—and what He offers instead is grace, renewal, and new mercy every single day.

The Attributes of God: God is Just

God’s justice is perfect, rooted in His righteous character, and carried out in His timing and ways—not ours—calling us to trust Him rather than take matters into our own hands. At the cross, God fully satisfies justice and extends mercy through Jesus, proving that while we may not understand His justice, we can rely on it completely.

The Attributes of God: God is Righteous

God’s righteousness means that everything about Him—His character, His decisions, and His judgments—is perfectly right, pure, and just. Because He is righteous, sin creates separation from Him, and by His holy nature He must turn from unrighteousness. Yet through Jesus Christ, who embodies God’s righteousness, our sin is exchanged for His perfection so that by faith we can stand before God declared righteous and live lives that reflect His character.

The Attributes of God: God is Transcendent and Immanent

At the center of who God is, there’s His heart—He doesn’t just want us to know about Him, He wants us to actually know Him and experience His love. He’s way bigger than us and beyond everything, but He’s also close to the broken and hurting at the same time. The real question is whether we’ll stop keeping Him at a distance and, through Jesus, let the God who’s above all come close to our lives.

The Attributes of God: God Does Not Change

God does not change—His holiness, His love, His justice, His mercy, and His promises are constant and unshakable. That’s our security, because if He could change, we couldn’t trust our salvation or our future. But while God stays the same, we are the ones meant to change—growing, repenting, surrendering, and becoming more like Christ in the steady presence of an unchanging God.

The Attributes of God: Pursuing Holiness

God wants us to truly know Him—and when we do, we see that He is completely holy. His holiness exposes our sin, leads us to repentance, cleanses us through Christ, and then calls us to live differently.
Salvation removes the barrier forever, but the rest of our lives are about pursuing holiness daily—choosing our eternal inheritance over temporary cravings. We’re declared holy in Christ; now we learn to live like it.