Ty Parkins - 7/22/26

What if the way we treat people in moments of embarrassment or failure is actually a reflection of how well we understand the gospel? This message opens with a striking contrast between two scenes: a man who drops his phone in church and is met with cold stares and sharp words, and that same man who later drops a drink at a bar and is met with laughter, grace, and a round of drinks on the house. The uncomfortable truth is that the bar showed him the love the church failed to give.

From there, we are drawn into Matthew 7, where Jesus challenges us to examine the beam in our own eye before we concern ourselves with the speck in someone else's. The message is clear: those of us who carry the heaviest burdens of sin are often the quickest to point fingers at others. This is not just a call to silence our criticism. It is a call to honest self-examination and genuine humility. We are invited to ask ourselves whether our judgment of others is really just a way of avoiding a hard look in the mirror.