Go Church Sermons Things Jesus Never Said: Week 2, Pastor Nick Callaway
Mar 9, 2026
A fishing story and shark analogy illustrate how temptation hooks us through attractive lures. A challenge to stop trusting shifting emotions and instead follow Jesus as the source of truth. Practical tools are offered: the HALT filter, a phone-based truth audit, and memorizing Scripture to resist deceptive impulses.
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Shark Moment Fishing Anecdote
- Nick Callaway recounts his family’s deep-sea fishing where Ethan’s first cast immediately hooked a shark, illustrating how tempting bait can instantly capture attention.
- The vivid image of “Sam the shark” biting gourmet bait becomes a metaphor for how people bite cultural lures that look good but trap them.
Heart Is A Deceitful Con Artist
- Jeremiah 17:9 declares the heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure, framing the heart as a con artist that cannot be fully trusted.
- Nick uses this Old Testament diagnosis to explain Israel’s cycle of outward religion but inner unbelief, showing timeless relevance.
Science Confirms The Heart's Forging Power
- Nick links modern neuroscience to Jeremiah, citing Daniel Gilbert and Lisa Feldman Barrett to show the mind forges preferences and constructs perception using internal states.
- Example: hungry or tired participants read neutral faces as more negative, proving feelings distort reality.
