You were not born in the wrong generation. You were not a mistake.

In a culture that runs on comparison and anxiety, both of those lies are easy to believe. But when the Apostle Paul finds himself stuck in Athens, just waiting on friends who haven't caught up yet, he ends up preaching one of the most famous sermons in the New Testament, and it starts with a simple, massive truth: God has you where you are on purpose.

This message walks through Acts 17:16-34, Paul's address to the philosophers of Athens at the Areopagus, and asks what it actually looks like to live like you were placed exactly where you are for a reason, not by accident, and not a generation too late.

In this sermon:

Be Faithful Where You Are. Why Paul's distress at Athens' idolatry wasn't self-righteousness but heartbreak, how the same three worldviews he  ...