Sermons
Browse recent messages from Canyon Ridge Baptist Church.
The Church at Thyatira: The Tolerant Church, Part Two | Chris Chadwick | Revelation 2:18-29
Chris Chadwick continues Christ’s message to Thyatira by confronting tolerated false teaching and calling believers to hold fast. Revelation 2:18-29 emphasizes sound doctrine, holy living, steadfast obedience, repentance, and the promises Christ gives to those who overcome.
Listen →The Church at Thyatira: The Tolerant Church | Chris Chadwick | Revelation 2:18-29
Can a church be busy serving others and still tolerate sin? Chris Chadwick examines Christ’s warning to Thyatira, focusing on Revelation 2:18-23, and shows why love, sound teaching, holiness, and repentance must remain together in the life of the church.
Listen →The Church at Pergamos: The Worldly Church, Part Two | Chris Chadwick | Revelation 2:12-17
Chris Chadwick concludes the message to Pergamos with Christ’s call to repentance, His promises to overcomers, and practical warnings for the local church. Biblical truth, mutual accountability, and wholehearted devotion to Jesus must shape the way believers live.
Listen →The Church at Pergamos: The Worldly Church | Chris Chadwick | Revelation 2:12-17
Chris Chadwick examines Christ’s warning to Pergamos and asks whether a church can remain faithful under pressure while tolerating compromise. Revelation 2 calls believers to measure doctrine and conduct by God’s Word and respond to sin with genuine repentance.
Listen →Seeking Things Above | Christian Saldana | Colossians 3:1-4
Christian Saldana explains why believers who are risen with Christ should seek things above, let heaven shape everyday life, and rest in their secure identity in Him. Colossians 3 calls Christians to live with their affections fixed on Christ and their hope anchored in His return.
Listen →Heirs Through Christ | Zane Garza | Galatians 4:1-7
Zane Garza explains how Jesus redeems believers from bondage under the law and brings them into God’s family as sons and heirs. Galatians 4 reveals the fullness of God’s timing, the privilege of adoption, and the freedom and responsibility of belonging to our heavenly Father.
Listen →Following Christ Without Reservation | Furgus Tunnell | Luke 9:57-62
Furgus Tunnell challenges believers to follow Jesus without reservation by obeying promptly, giving Christ undivided loyalty, and refusing to turn back when discipleship costs comfort. Serving Jesus is worth everything we give Him.
Listen →Jesus Came to Seek and Save the Lost | Furgus Tunnell | Luke 19:1-10
Through the account of Zacchaeus, Furgus Tunnell explains that Jesus came on a rescue mission to seek and save people who are lost. Because Christ knew Zacchaeus by name and pursued him with saving grace, believers should share that same gospel mission with people others may overlook.
Listen →The Church at Smyrna: The Suffering Church | Chris Chadwick | Revelation 2:8-11
Christ’s letter to Smyrna shows how believers can face hardship, poverty, and opposition without fear by trusting the risen Lord who conquered death. Chris Chadwick calls the church to reject compromise and remain faithful to Jesus, whatever the cost.
Listen →How to Pray for Others: Part 3 | Chris Chadwick | Colossians 1:9-11
Chris Chadwick concludes the series by examining Paul’s prayer in Colossians 1. Believers can pray that others will be filled with biblical knowledge of God’s will, walk worthy of the Lord, bear spiritual fruit, and receive strength for patient, joyful endurance.
Listen →The Church at Ephesus | Chris Chadwick | Revelation 2:1-7
Christ commended the church at Ephesus for tireless service, endurance, and doctrinal discernment, yet warned that they had left their first love. Chris Chadwick explains how believers can guard against cold religion by remembering, repenting, and returning to wholehearted devotion to Jesus.
Listen →How to Pray for Others: Part 2 | Chris Chadwick | Ephesians 1:15-21
Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 1 teaches believers to thank God for one another and ask for spiritual wisdom, a clearer knowledge of God, and confidence in His resurrection power. Chris Chadwick challenges the church to replace shallow requests with Scripture-shaped intercession.
Listen →The Glorified Christ | Chris Chadwick | Revelation 1:9-20
Chris Chadwick walks through John’s vision of the risen Jesus standing among the churches. Seeing Christ in His holiness, authority, and compassion produces reverent worship, comfort in trials, and a renewed commitment to magnify the King above everything else.
Listen →Praying for Others: Part One | Chris Chadwick | John 17
Chris Chadwick uses Jesus’ prayer in John 17 to show believers how to intercede meaningfully for one another. Biblical prayer moves beyond surface requests to seek spiritual protection, genuine unity, and sanctification through God’s truth.
Listen →Someone You've Got To Meet! | Chris Chadwick | Revelation 1:4-6
Chris Chadwick presents the exalted Jesus Christ of Revelation 1:4–6—the faithful witness, risen Lord, and sovereign King. Believers receive grace and peace from the Triune God and can rest in the assurance that Christ has loved, cleansed, and brought them near to God.
Listen →An Introduction | Chris Chadwick | Revelation 1:1-3
Chris Chadwick opens a study of Revelation by presenting it as the unveiling of the sovereign, glorified Jesus Christ—not an overwhelming mystery. Revelation 1:1–3 calls believers to trust God’s authoritative Word, receive its promised blessing, and live faithfully in light of Christ’s return.
Listen →Counterfeit Spirituality | Christian Saldana | Colossians 2:18-23
Christian Saldana warns that counterfeit spirituality may appear humble while producing pride, bondage, and distance from Christ. Colossians 2 calls believers to reject man-made rules and mystical substitutes, hold firmly to Christ, and pursue genuine spiritual growth in Him.
Listen →The Conflict of the Ages | Burnie Lund | Job 1:6-2:10
Burnie Lund examines the cosmic conflict revealed in Job 1–2 and shows how God displays His wisdom and glory through earthly trials. Even in loss and hardship, believers can rest in God’s sovereign limits, redemptive purpose, and unchanging faithfulness.
Listen →Why We Serve | Casey Trudell | Ephesians 3:1-14
Casey Trudell traces Paul’s ministry in Ephesians 3 and explains why Christians serve even when service is costly. God’s grace, the revealed mystery of the gospel, and the privilege of building up Christ’s church give believers a purpose greater than comfort or recognition.
Listen →Real Community | Casey Trudell | 2 Timothy 4:16-18
Using Paul’s final testimony in 2 Timothy 4, Casey Trudell addresses the disappointments and difficulties that come with Christian community. Because the Lord remains faithful when people fail, believers can commit themselves to loving Christ’s church and building honest, enduring relationships.
Listen →Made Right in Christ | Christian Saldana | Colossians 2:11-15
Christian Saldana shows from Colossians 2 that believers are made new, forgiven, and complete through Christ rather than religious ritual or human effort. Jesus has canceled the record of our debt and triumphed openly over every spiritual power.
Listen →Family Matters | Zane Garza | Galatians 3:15-29
Zane Garza explains how God’s covenant promise to Abraham is fulfilled in Jesus Christ and can never be overturned. The law reveals our need and leads us to the Savior, while faith in Christ brings believers from every background into one family.
Listen →The Just Shall Live by Faith: Part 3 | Burnie Lund | Hebrews 10:18-39
Burnie Lund explains how Hebrews 10 calls believers to put faith into action through confidence in Christ, steadfast hope, faithful church involvement, and endurance. The message answers the practical question, “What am I supposed to do?” by showing how the just live by faith day by day.
Listen →Remember When | Zane Garza | Galatians 3:1-14
Looking at Paul’s letter to the Galatians, this sermon encourages us to remember the day we first trusted Jesus and return to a vibrant, active faith. True salvation and daily Christian living come not through legalistic works, but by grace through faith alone. Like Abraham, let us trust God wholeheartedly and live out His love in our everyday lives.
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