Sonrise Church-Utah Sermons

Practical, biblical preaching from Sonrise Church in West Valley City, Utah. Pastor Chris Thompson teaches through Scripture each week, drawing out timeless truth for everyday life. Whether you've walked with Jesus for decades, are returning to faith, or are still asking the first questions, there's a place for you here. New sermons posted Mondays from our Sunday gatherings. Learn more or join us in person at sonrisebc.org.

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  Episode #17

  17-Ephesians: "MEASURE TWICE: Wisdom Is Skill, Not Information" | Ephesians 5:15-21

  Aug 19, 202643 minS1

  In Ephesians 5:15-21, Paul tells a church to take a hard look at its own ordinary life. Not its Sunday. Its Tuesday.The first time Scripture says God filled a man with wisdom, that man is a craftsman. Exodus 35: Bezalel, filled with the Spirit of God in wisdom, to cut jewels, carve wood, and work in gold and silver and bronze. Not a scholar. A metalworker. That is the word Paul reaches for here, and it changes what he is asking of us.Wisdom in Scripture is skill, not information. You are not wise because you have accumulated. The religious leaders of Jesus' day knew more of the Old Testament than anyone reading this, and they crucified the Savior they had waited for. Wisdom is competence at living, and most of us feel unskilled at exactly that. At relationships. At raising children. At following Jesus on a Tuesday.Which is why one word here gets misheard. "Circumspectly" sounds like caution and tiptoeing. The Latin underneath is plainer: circum, around, and spectare, to look. Look around yourself. A tightrope walker is careful because he is afraid of falling. A machinist is careful because the part has to match the specification. One is governed by fear, the other by a standard. Paul is not calling for a nervous Christian life. He is calling for an accurate one.From there he moves fast. Buy the opportunity in front of you, because the hour will be spent either way. Understand the will of the Lord instead of drifting through it. Stop wasting yourself. Be filled with the Spirit, sing to one another, give thanks always for all things.Then comes the line that will sit with you. Submitting to one another in the fear of God. That is a formation word, troops in order, each man in his place, and you are the one placing yourself lower. It is voluntary. It is not obedience, and it is not inferiority, because position is not value. In chapter one, God put all things under Christ's feet. In Philippians 2, He emptied Himself and took the form of a servant, and He was exalted because of it. He did not hold the high position instead of taking the low one. He reached it by way of the low one.If you have ever felt unskilled at living this Christian life, this message is for you.Key Texts: Ephesians 5:15-21; Matthew 5:22; Exodus 35:30-33; Matthew 28:19-20; James 1:2-4; Psalm 33:3; Ephesians 1:22; Philippians 2:5-11

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  Episode #16

  16-Ephesians: "WALK AS LIGHT: Nothing Left to Hide" | Ephesians 5:8-14

  Aug 10, 202643 minS1

  In Ephesians 5:8-14, we watch Paul say something the city of Ephesus was not built to hear. Their religion ran on concealment: spells guarded as secrets, initiations sworn to silence, power located in whatever stayed hidden. Paul tells the church the opposite. You were once darkness. Now you are light in the Lord. So walk like it.Notice the order. Paul does not tell the Ephesians to manufacture light. He tells them what they already are, and only then tells them how to walk. Identity comes first, and obedience follows it.From there Paul opens the fruit: goodness that actively does good and is willing to confront as well as comfort, righteousness that grows from within rather than a summit to be climbed, and truth, which the Ephesians heard as un-hiddenness. That is the shape of a believer walking in the light. A life with nothing in it that needs hiding.This message also corrects a misconception that has done real damage. "Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them" is not a license to police people. The "them" being exposed is the works. Paul is addressing believers in unrepentant sin, Matthew 18 comes first, and Galatians 6:1 sets the aim: restoration in a spirit of gentleness. And the exposing itself is mostly quiet. The couple that waited, the giver who lives below their means, the person who refuses to feed a grudge. Light does not have to argue. It only has to be present.Then comes the call in verse 14. "Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light." If you are a believer who has wandered back into the graveyard and started living like one of the dead, hear this carefully: you are not lost and you are not being saved a second time. You are sealed for the day of redemption. The call is not to grope your way back. Stand up, and the light comes to you. The Father runs while the son is still a great way off.If there is something you have been keeping in the dark, this message is for you.Key Texts: Ephesians 5:8-14; Ephesians 1:7, 1:13-14, 4:30; Galatians 5:19-23; Galatians 6:1; 1 Corinthians 5:9-13; Matthew 18:15-17; Acts 19:18-20; Philippians 4:8; Romans 1:20-23; Luke 15:20Sonrise Church-Utah | Ephesians Series, Part 16 Learn more about Sonrise Church-Utah: www.sonrisebc.org Support Sonrise: https://sonrise-bc.churchcenter.com/giving Download our App: https://sonrisebc.org/app/ Streaming License: CSPL166462 CCLI License: 646243 Study Questions: https://sonrisebc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Sermon16_WalkAsLight_LifeGroupStudy.pdf#Ephesians5 #WalkInTheLight #ChildrenOfLight #FruitOfTheSpirit #BibleTeaching #ExpositoryPreaching #Discipleship #ChristianLiving #Holiness #SoundDoctrine #Repentance #Restoration #Sermon #Jesus #SonriseChurch

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  Episode #15

  15-Ephesians: "Become Imitators: Why Grace Never Cancels the Commands" | Ephesians 5:1-7

  Aug 4, 202645 minS1

  In Ephesians 5:1-7, Paul hands the church six more commands and immediately exposes the misconception that has crushed so many believers: the idea that if God commands something, then obedience must be what saves you. It is not. Salvation has always been by grace alone, through faith alone (Ephesians 2:8-9). So what are the commands for?Paul answers by starting with a child. "Be imitators of God" is better read as become imitators, because this is a process, not a finished product. A child grows into their own person, yet the Father's character shows up in them. Want to see what imitating God looks like? Look at Jesus, who walked in love all the way to an offering and a sacrifice.Then Paul gets close. He names what should not even be named among the saints: fornication, uncleanness, covetousness. He addresses what we say and what we laugh at: filthiness, foolish talking (godless talk, conversation conducted as though God is not there), and coarse jesting (the quick-witted innuendo our culture actually admires). And he warns us about voices with empty words who promise that none of it costs anything.Here is the pastoral clarity so many believers miss: the wrath of God in verse 6 is aimed at the sons of disobedience, not at God's children. The believer's inheritance is sealed and guaranteed (Ephesians 1:13-14; 1 Thessalonians 5:9). But a believer who partners with the deceivers still loses: usefulness, household peace, credibility of witness, eternal reward, and the Father's loving discipline.You are not saved by the commands. You are saved into a family, and the family has a resemblance. So do not be partakers with them.Key Texts: Ephesians 5:1-7; Ephesians 2:8-9; Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 5:16, 19-23; John 15:13; Romans 6:1; 1 Thessalonians 5:9; Hebrews 12:6; 1 Peter 2:11 Learn more about Sonrise Church-Utah: www.sonrisebc.org Support Sonrise: https://sonrise-bc.churchcenter.com/giving Download our App: https://sonrisebc.org/app/ Streaming License: CSPL166462 CCLI License: 646243 Study Questions: https://sonrisebc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Become_Imitators_LifeGroup_Study.pdf#Ephesians5 #BecomeImitators #WalkInLove #GraceAlone #Sanctification #BibleTeaching #ExpositoryPreaching #ChristianLiving #Holiness #Discipleship #NKJV #SonriseChurchUtah #Sermon #ChristianSpeech #EphesiansSeries

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  Episode #14

  14-Ephesians: "Put Away: How the New Man Lives" | Ephesians 4:25-32

  Jul 20, 202641 minS1

  In Ephesians 4:25-32, we watch Paul dress the new man for everyday life. Because believers have put off the old man and put on the new, our lives must now be marked by truth instead of lying, for we are members of one another. Paul teaches that anger, even when it is not sin, has a curfew; left unaddressed, it festers like an untreated wound and gives place to the devil. The one who stole must steal no longer, but labor, so he has something to give to him who has need. Corrupt, diseased communication must give way to words that are good for necessary edification, words that impart grace to the hearers.And behind it all stands a sobering reality: our conduct can grieve the Holy Spirit of God, the very One by whom we were sealed for the day of redemption. This message calls the church to put away bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, evil speaking, and malice, and to be kind, tenderhearted, and forgiving, even as God in Christ forgave you.Key Texts: Ephesians 4:25-32; Zechariah 8:16-17; John 8:44; Matthew 12:25; 2 Thessalonians 3:10-15; Ephesians 1:13-14 Learn more about Sonrise Church-Utah: www.sonrisebc.org Support Sonrise: https://sonrise-bc.churchcenter.com/giving Download our App: https://sonrisebc.org/app/ Streaming License: CSPL166462 CCLI License: 646243 Study Questions: https://sonrisebc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/PUT-AWAY-Life-Group-Bible-Study.pdf#Church #BibleTeaching #Ephesians4 #NewMan #SpeakTruth #Forgiveness #HolySpirit #ChristianLiving #Discipleship #SoundDoctrine #Jesus #ChurchUnity

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  Episode #13

  13-Ephesians: "But You: No Longer Walking Like the World" | Ephesians 4:17-24

  Jul 13, 202640 minS1

  In Ephesians 4:17-24, Paul draws a line in the sand. On one side stands the old Gentile walk: minds full of power but empty of purpose, understanding locked in moral blackout, hearts so callused they have lost all feeling, and appetites that consume people as objects. On the other side stand believers who have learned Christ. Not a philosophy about Him; the Person Himself, the curriculum of the new life.In this message, we walk through Paul's diagnosis of the mind without God and his prescription for the people of God: put off the old man, be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man created according to God in true righteousness and holiness. Renewal is not a one-time event. It is a continuous partnership with the Holy Spirit, and where God commands, God provides the means.If you have ever wondered why the same evidence leads people to opposite conclusions, or why old thought habits keep creeping back, this message is for you.Key Texts: Ephesians 4:17-24; Romans 1:20; Romans 6:6; Ephesians 2:21🌐 Learn more about Sonrise Church-Utah: www.sonrisebc.org💒 Support Sonrise: https://sonrise-bc.churchcenter.com/giving📱 Download our App: https://sonrisebc.org/app/🎥 Streaming License: CSPL166462🎵 CCLI License: 646243📖 Study Questions: https://sonrisebc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/13-But-You-Life-Group-Study.pdf

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