If the church is going to speak to people weary of religion, it will not be by offering better techniques or louder certainty, but by daring to say what Paul so plainly said: Christ is enough.
02/26/26
Surveying Scripture, it is an immense comfort to know we’re not alone in our sinfulness.
02/25/26
Christian faith is never a solitary possession. When the congregation confesses, the old speak for the young, the strong for the weak, and the clear-voiced for the trembling.
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08/02/20
God’s goal in all this is that His call to repentance impacts our lives by turning us to find peace and joy in Christ.
08/02/20
It is important to see how the LORD does NOT answer the questions Job and his friends have been wrestling with.
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08/02/20
Here we have the other major theme within Romans: God will have mercy on whom He has mercy, and He will have compassion on whom He has compassion
08/02/20
If the feeding of the 5000 invited an emphasis on Jesus’ COMPASSION, this week’s miracle invites a sermon focused on Jesus’ AUTHORITY.
07/31/20
Your prayers are not what make you acceptable in his sight. You have already been made acceptable through the blood of Christ.
07/30/20
There is no justification except by faith alone. The radical forgiveness itself puts the old to death and calls forth the new.
07/28/20
In Christ Jesus, through faith, we’ve received everything we need for our bodies and lives, and life eternal.
07/27/20
These words not only rescue and defend; they also attack.
07/27/20
I rededicated my life as many times as I could when the guilt was unbearable. I would read my Bible more and pray more, yet I still struggled. I knew deep down, I was breaking God’s heart with my failure at being his child.
07/26/20
New normals are always sneaking up on us. Preachers ignore them to their peril and the peril of our hearers.
07/26/20
Jesus’ miracle in this sermon, then, is a type of the compassion He has for your hearers. While they certainly have many physical needs, your hearers also (more fundamentally) need Jesus’ mercy and forgiveness.
07/26/20
The lifeblood of Christ is the treasury that defines personal worth – your worth, my worth. Preach that; the price tag on your soul.
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