Sermons from 2015 (Page 2)
The Enemy Within: Remnant Sin
Galatians 5:16-26
Sanctification: Growing in Grace
Hebrews 12:14 Well, our topic tonight is sanctification, and we’re really going to begin a discussion that starts tonight and will last for four weeks. We’re going to talk about sanctification tonight, what it is, and how it works, and then understanding that sanctification is our growing in grace, our struggling with sin. The next three weeks, we’ll look at enemies of the Christian. The Confession of Faith says that our three enemies are the world and all its systems,…
Reformed and Always Reforming
Nehemiah 13 And so at the end of Chronicles, we see that Israel has already been exiled by Assyria, maybe 75 years, 100 years earlier. But we find that Judah, the tribe of Judah in Jerusalem, they’ve been exiled to Babylon. and also the city of God and the temple have been destroyed. And so in Ezra and Nehemiah we see that after some time God sends three waves of people back to Judah, back to Jerusalem to repair the…
Will the Church Endure
Galatians 6:11-15 See with what large letters I have written to you with my own hand. As many as desire to make a good showing in the flesh, these would compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. For not even those who are circumcised keep the law. but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. But God forbid that I should boast except in…
Keeping Christ Fresh on Our Minds
1 Corinthians 11:17-34 Our reading from the New Testament today is found in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. It’s in chapter 11, beginning at verse 23, and we’ll read through 26. This is one of Paul’s several letters to the Corinthians. We think there may be two more. We only have two of them. But they were a church troubled greatly in many ways. They came to faith in Christ, but they remained very worldly. and their worldliness caused…
Saving Faith
Acts 26:12-18 Okay, so tonight’s topic is saving faith. We’re making our way through the order of salvation. We’ve looked at union with Christ and how it’s an overarching theme in salvation that we are united to Christ in his election. We’re united to Christ in his sufferings and his death. We’re united all the way through to the end of the world. of salvation and that in life and in death, as we confessed from the Heidelberg Catechism this…
Keeping Christ Fresh on Our Minds
1 Corinthians 11:17-34 Our reading from the New Testament today is found in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. It’s in chapter 11, beginning at verse 23, and we’ll read through 26. This is one of Paul’s several letters to the Corinthians. We think there may be two more. We only have two of them. But they were a church troubled greatly in many ways. They came to faith in Christ, but they remained very worldly. and their worldliness caused…
I Pledge Allegiance to Jesus Christ
Hebrews 1:4-14 If you opened your copy of the newspaper today, you read of various events for the upcoming holiday. You know that holiday, Halloween. There are corn mazes and these places where they have haunted houses and all sorts of scare events. And it reminded me of a family tradition we have with our children. We like to go to the corn mazes. We like to go to these farm fields where the farmer has cut out a maze…
Convinced and Converted
Matthew 22:1-14 We continue tonight our study on the Christian life, and our topic tonight is effectual calling. And I’ve titled it, Convinced and Converted, because that’s how the shorter catechism speaks of effectual calling. But we’ve read from Matthew’s gospel, chapter 22, the parable of the feast the king gives. We’ve read from Romans chapter eight, verse 30, John 644, and from Acts 16, 14, we’ll also include some other scriptures as we go along. Let’s start, though, by,…
The Glory of the Son
Hebrews 1:1-4 If you have been diamond shopping before or maybe in the market for precious jewels, you have no doubt visited the jewelry store. You have spoken with the gemologist or the person who is knowledgeable of these things. And you have seen a gem, a diamond, or some precious stone under the scope, under the magnifying glass. And you study this stone and this person tells you all the facets all of the intricacies, all of the unique…
Jesus Has Spoken
Hebrews 1:1-2 Our reading from God’s Word today is from the book of Hebrews from chapter 1 verses 1 and 2. We’ll be beginning a new series on the book of Hebrews today. We’ll make our way through it verse by verse and there’ll be some breaks and things for Thanksgiving and homecoming and other sort of events. But the book of Hebrews is one of the most magnificent books in the New Testament. It is a book that we…
Jesus Has Spoken
Hebrews 1:1-2 Our reading from God’s Word today is from the book of Hebrews from chapter 1 verses 1 and 2. We’ll be beginning a new series on the book of Hebrews today. We’ll make our way through it verse by verse and there’ll be some breaks and things for Thanksgiving and homecoming and other sort of events. But the book of Hebrews is one of the most magnificent books in the New Testament. It is a book that we…