Sermon Summary - Love One Another - Philippians 2:1-4
Paul appeals to the Christian's vertical experience with God through Jesus Christ, and instructs them to allow that experience to drive them to prefer one another in love....
Keep ReadingPaul appeals to the Christian's vertical experience with God through Jesus Christ, and instructs them to allow that experience to drive them to prefer one another in love....
Five Biblical reasons why God ordains suffering: 1) suffering deepens faith, 2) suffering increases your experience of glory in eternity, 3) God uses the suffering of some to help others, 4) sufferings carry the gospel of Christ's sufferings, 5) the gospel's beauty is made clear through suffering...
Paul appeals to the Christian's vertical experience with God through Jesus Christ, and instructs them to allow that experience to drive them to prefer one another in love....
Keep ReadingFive Biblical reasons why God ordains suffering: 1) suffering deepens faith, 2) suffering increases your experience of glory in eternity, 3) God uses the suffering of some to help others, 4) sufferings carry the gospel of Christ's sufferings, 5) the gospel's beauty is made clear through suffering...
Keep ReadingChristians are called to live in a way that is worthy of the gospel of Christ. Faith is the only thing that fits with what the gospel demands, thus demonstrating how worthy the Lord is....
Keep ReadingThis prayer is here for us to pray constantly for ourselves and for each other. It’s radically gospel-centered and radically God-centered, that we would grow in loving God and loving others. ...
Keep ReadingPhilippians 1:6 teaches us what has been known throughout church history as the perseverance of the saints. This biblical doctrine teaches that those who have come to faith in Jesus will persevere in faith to the end because God preserves us....
Keep ReadingAllow God’s grace to go with you, dispensed to us through the Scripture, through God’s word internalized, being applied to the heart by the Spirit. ...
Keep ReadingLuke 22 shows us the most crucial meal ever eaten in the history of the world. This was a critical moment in salvation history, where Jesus will pour out his heart to these disciples, and indeed to all of His disciples. This is a memorial meal the church is to recall often, again and again in its gathering. ...
Keep ReadingJesus promised Paul he would get to Rome, but He didn't promise how. This unexpected journey of storm and shipwreck is a microcosm of the Christian life. ...
Keep ReadingWho are the crazy ones today, those who live for this present world or those who love Jesus and walk with Him in the light of eternity? ...
Keep ReadingThere is no salvation for any of us right now from the justice that we all deserve except through the brutal, gory cross of Jesus from Nazareth....
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Keep ReadingRepentance is a turning of the whole person from sin to holiness, darkness to light, and Satan to God. It involves a change of mind and change of behavior. ...
Keep ReadingThe resurrection is not a matter of private opinion. It is a declared fact of history that confronts every single human being....
Keep ReadingLike Paul, we must trust God’s sovereign, providential hand with every detail of our lives. ...
Keep ReadingWhile stuck in jail for two whole years, Paul models for us how to trust God's strange providence even when He seems to be silent. ...
Keep ReadingThough Felix felt such fear that he was trembling after hearing Paul's preaching, rather than act on those feelings of ultimate reality that were coming over him, he instead squashed them....
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Keep ReadingJesus stands by Paul in his darkest hour with a special intimacy. He stands by His sheep in their hardest times and says, “Take courage.”...
Keep ReadingBiblical saving faith removes any valid grounds for boasting. And that's what's so offensive to us as sinners, and to the Jewish crowd who wanted Paul dead. ...
Keep ReadingOur testimonies are important servants in carrying the gospel to various persons and groups, acting as a bridge connecting our lives to the gospel. ...
Keep ReadingThis passage brings up a huge question for us: is there a pre-ordained, hidden plan of God for each of our lives that we are meant to try and discern before we make choices? ...
Keep ReadingThis Psalm gives three reasons to give thanks: 1) it is good to give thanks to the Lord because of who He is and what He has done for us, 2) because the world will eventually be judged, and 3) because He causes His people to flourish. ...
Keep ReadingShepherds are to guard the flock against false teachers. They do this by knowing the truth of the gospel. ...
Keep ReadingPaul's exhortation to the Ephesian elders is the key to persevering to the end: to not consider this temporal life as more important than faithfulness to the Lord, and the ministry to which one is called....
Keep ReadingPaul was utterly committed to Christ’s church, which led him to revisit the churches in Macedonia and Achaia for the purpose of strengthening the believers and bringing unity to all the churches by collecting an offering for the poor in Jerusalem. ...
Keep ReadingWe must get rid of any desire to control the unseen and the seen through magical sayings, and instead submit to the sovereign lordship of King Jesus. ...
Keep ReadingApollos was a man mighty in the Scriptures, yet humble enough to receive correction from a tent maker and his wife (Priscilla and Aquila)....
Keep ReadingPaul adapts his approach, but not the gospel. He first finds common ground with his audience in Athens before proclaiming God the Creator, Jesus' resurrection, and the call to repentance. ...
Keep ReadingContemplating God, something that should be a constant in our lives as believers, is something that we learn from Abraham here in Romans 4. ...
Keep ReadingI hope that giving this explanation will be helpful for anybody who, like me growing up, doesn’t know what “going to church” actually entails. ...
Keep ReadingThe Holy Spirit's guiding brings Silas, Timothy, and Luke into Paul's life as he begins his second missionary journey. The Holy Spirit then prevents them from going to Asia and Bithynia, ultimately revealing through a vision given to Paul, that they are called to preach the gospel in Macedonia. ...
Keep ReadingGod is sovereign over planting churches, and over saving souls. He does it through the gospel being faithfully preached. God opens the hearts of some to respond with faith, while others reject the gospel because of the hardness of their hearts. Lydia did not open her own heart; the Lord opened her heart. ...
Keep ReadingSpiritual maturity requires standing firm on core gospel issues, but favoring love and unity over disagreement on non-essentials. There are times when conceding to others' consciences is right, wise, and loving. ...
Keep ReadingPaul and Barnabas return to the cities they preached in, not as evangelists, but as shepherds to organize the believers into churches with elders. ...
Keep ReadingIn this passage, there are 4 lessons about the gospel that we are to learn: 1) God has an elect people, 2) the gospel is about the glory of God foundationally, 3) the Biblical gospel wipes out all human boasting, 4) the gospel divides ...
Keep ReadingOur gospel witness brings us constantly into a battle with the enemy of salvation in Jesus Christ. Therefore, as believers, we need to grasp how he works (his schemes), in order to do spiritual battle against him. ...
Keep ReadingActs 13:2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."...
Keep ReadingGod is sovereign over both the death of the apostle James, and the miraculous deliverance of the apostle Peter. This drives the church to earnest prayer, and God is glorified in answering their prayers. ...
Keep ReadingThe way of salvation is always twofold: 1) the content and clarity of the gospel of Jesus, and 2) the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit falling in order to save souls. ...
Keep ReadingThe way of salvation is laid out in this passage: God is offering to make peace with rebellious sinners through Jesus Christ. ...
Keep ReadingJesus healed the bedridden man Aeneas, raised Dorcas from the dead, and then saved many persons with the gospel. ...
Keep ReadingGod uses persecution as a means to purify His church and for the spread of the gospel through evangelism....
Keep ReadingThrough the salvation of Saul of Tarsus, we know that no one is outside hope of the Lord's salvation. Paul’s unlikely conversion to Christ should bring us great encouragement. ...
Keep ReadingDoes God speak to His people today? Biblically, there is no reason that the Holy Spirit would now be silent in personally guiding His people like He did Philip. The Bible does not rule out the special guidance of the Holy Spirit; it advocates it. ...
Keep ReadingThe Holy Spirit fell upon the Samaritans and they saw the grace of God in Jesus. Simon however, was blind to this, and only saw the manifestations of the Spirit and focused on what he could gain from them. ...
Keep ReadingStephen is a model for how God gives special grace in dying to those who belong to Christ. We should be encouraged, that as Jesus supported Stephen in the process of dying, His grace will be sufficient for us too. ...
Keep ReadingStephen preached that Jesus was the fulfillment of Moses, the Law, the customs, the temple, and the sacrificial system, rendering those things unnecessary now that the reality has come. ...
Keep ReadingThe great fear that came over the whole church and over all who heard the fate of Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:11) made this a church that unbelievers would not dare to attend. The powerful, consistent, regular signs and wonders in this passage and throughout the book of Acts were unprecedented in church history. ...
Keep ReadingIn order to boldly speak the truth of the gospel, we must have communion with the resurrected Lord Jesus, by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, over the truth of God’s word....
Keep ReadingWater baptism portrays and dramatizes forgiveness of sins and union with Christ by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. ...
Keep ReadingActs 2:14-41 is the very first Christian evangelistic sermon. 4 ways that God has authenticated Jesus of Nazareth as Lord and Messiah: His life, death, resurrection, and exaltation to the right hand of the Father. ...
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Keep Reading(Matthew 3:1-10) Main point: Baptism is to be obeyed by every person who has come to saving faith in Jesus Christ. ...
Keep Reading(1 Peter 3:18-22) Main point: Baptism is the outflow of saving faith, not the cause of saving faith. ...
Keep ReadingLove and Guard the Truth (2 John) 2 John is like a brief summary of several of the points in 1 John. So consider this a refresher of 1 John. God's commands, truth, and love among believers are key points once again. A new point made in this letter: don't provide hospitality to false teachers. (v. 1) This letter is written to "the chosen lady and her children," possibly a...
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