Ultimate Outcomes
Ultimate Outcomes is a non-profit organization founded on the fruit of the 30-plus years Pastor Richard Elwell and his wife Marty spent in church ministry, developing sermons and Bible studies that would help their congregants discern and apply God’s truth. Richard was a firm believer that the outcomes in our lives result from what ideas we believe and follow.
Episodes
What is your experience with God like? How have you experienced him and what is your experience with him, like? Is our experience with God, and relating to God more like relating to a theoretical idea? Or is our experience with God actually, touching the eternal? Do we really have, an experiential knowledge of God, or do we just have ideas about him in the abstract?
Has everything that you've put your faith in is everything that you have believed in actually, turned out to be true in your life? Has everything that we have put our faith in turned out to be, reliable? What happens to us, when we believe in what turns out to be a lie? What happens to us when we believe what turns out to be true? Is what we put our faith in a determiner of the condition, or consequence of our lives? Is it importan...
Why do we love? And where does our ability to love actually come from? In this message from 1 John 4:19–21, we discover that all love begins with God. His love is not merely an example for us to follow, it is the very foundation of reality and the source of every act of goodness. Because God first loved us, we are able to love Him and love others. This sermon explores how God’s preceding love shapes our purpose, transfo...
Fear is something everyone experiences... but what if God’s love is the answer to overcoming it? In this message from 1 John 4:13–18, we explore the relationship between fear and love and discover how the gospel transforms our perspective on both. While the fear of God can be the beginning of wisdom, it is not meant to be the end of our journey. Through the cross of Jesus Christ, God provides forgiveness, acceptance, an...
Why did God send His Son into the world? What was His ultimate purpose in such a costly act of love? In this message from 1 John 4:7–12, we explore one of the most profound truths in Scripture: God is love. More than an emotion, biblical love is goodness in action, God continually working for the benefit of His creation. This sermon reveals that God's love reaches its intended purpose when it flows through His people to other...
How do we know what's true in a world filled with competing voices, opinions, and spiritual claims? In this message from 1 John 4:1–6, we explore the biblical call to “test the spirits” and develop spiritual discernment. The sermon emphasizes that our lives are shaped by the ideas we believe, making spiritual truth more important than ever. Using Jesus Christ as the ultimate standard of truth, we learn how to reco...
What is love, really? In this message from 1 John 3:16–24, we explore the biblical definition of love and discover that love is far more than a feeling or emotion. According to Scripture, love is sacrificial action. Looking to the cross of Jesus Christ as the ultimate example, this sermon challenges us to move beyond words and affection toward selfless service that benefits others, even when it costs us something. We’ll...
What we love and what we hate reveals more about us than we may realize. In this message from 1 John 3, we explore the contrast between Cain and Abel, the children of God and the children of the devil, life and death, love and hate. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil, and our response to Christ exposes the condition of our hearts. Are we drawn to righteousness or repelled by it? Discover how genuine faith produces a love ...
God’s incredible love has made us His children and secured a future beyond anything we can fully imagine. When we fix our eyes on Christ, it gives us the hope of eternity and the power to shape and purify how we live today.
Discover how deception and false ideologies can become our greatest spiritual danger, and how believers are equipped through Christ—the Anointed One—to discern truth, stand firm in faith, and resist the lies that seek to lead us astray.
This sermon explores the question of what we are truly devoted to, arguing that people are shaped by what they love most. Using 1 John 2:15–17, the message contrasts loving the temporary things of the world with loving God, emphasizing that worldly pursuits like pleasure, fame, and pride can never fully satisfy because they are finite and passing away. The sermon ultimately points to Jesus Christ as the only source of lasting...
True freedom from guilt comes through confession and repentance, made possible by Jesus Christ, who paid the price for sin. God remains both just and merciful because Jesus took on the punishment we deserve. When we admit our guilt, Christ advocates for us and applies His atonement to our lives.
The call to action is clear: stop hiding, start confessing, and trust that God will faithfully forgive and transform.
In this message from 1 John 2:3–8, we explore how authentic Christianity is never meant to become dull or routine. Though God’s truth is ancient and unchanging, it becomes fresh and alive as we obey Christ and apply His love in everyday life. This sermon challenges us to rediscover the wonder of knowing Jesus, walking in obedience, and becoming more like Him through lives marked by love and selflessness.
Believers are called not just to walk in the light but to be the light, reflecting God’s nature so that others can see Him through their lives.
This sermon launches a series on authentic Christianity rooted in 1 John. The central question is: What does it mean to be a true, authentic Christian?
The message confronts false ideas about Jesus, specifically the ancient Gnostic belief that denied Christ’s physical reality and used that distortion to excuse sinful living. In response, the Apostle John establishes a firsthand, eyewitness account of Jesus, someone who was see...
In our powerful conclusion to the “Are You Listening?” series, Richard opens Isaiah 55:6-13 and asks a life-changing question: In a world where nothing is truly secure, jobs, health, possessions, is there anything you can have absolute confidence in? The answer is yes: God’s Word.
He gives us a stirring reminder that whatever God’s Word has done in you will last forever and whatever it is still doing will nev...
Abraham believed God's promise he left everything by faith, seeking a heavenly homeland whose designer and builder is God (Hebrews 11). In a world chasing empty utopias, his obedience gave us the Ten Commandments' justice, true liberty, and Jesus as the Builder. What voices are you listening to for a better life?
Anyone who turns, listens, and seeks Wisdom like hidden treasure (Proverbs 2) will dwell securely, protected, and at peace, no matter how foolish the culture around them. our lives are largely the consequence of whose voice we choose to tune into God’s or our own.
Everyone claims to speak truth but not every voice is from God.
This message from 1 John 4 challenges us to test the voices we listen to, recognize false teaching, and become people who know the voice of Christ.
James calls believers to be “quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,” emphasizing that merely hearing God’s Word is not enough. Real spiritual growth happens when the Word becomes “implanted” in us through obedience and practice. Hearing without doing leads to self-deception and forgetfulness, like looking in a mirror and immediately forgetting what you saw. But those who listen carefully an...
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