Philippians (16): Sermon Video Introduction: We come now to the conclusion of Paul’s letter to the Philippians. The theme of this passage is the importance of contentment, in the context ...
The Meaning of Contentment
That Passes Understanding
Philippians (15): Sermon Video Introduction: Paul is following his typical pattern here. He loves to conclude his epistles with a set of rapid-fire exhortations, which is what he is doing here ...
Likemindedness at the Pinch Point
Philippians (14): Sermon Video Introduction: Everybody thinks that likemindedness is a wonderful thing, and everyone approves of it in the abstract. Behold how pleasant it is when brethren ...
Inescapable Partaking
A common mistake with regard to the Lord’s Table is that of thinking that something is happening here that never happens anywhere else in the world. But it would be more accurate to say that the thing that distinguishes this Table is with whom it happens . . . not what happens. This is what …
Let God Be True
One of the things we must always remember to do is to distinguish what baptism means objectively—apart from any sincerity or insincerity on the part of those administering, receiving, or observing it. And what baptism means is union with Christ. Those who are baptized into Christ are baptized into His death (Rom. 6:3). If you …
Colonies of Heaven
Philippians (13): Sermon Video Introduction: After the Lord’s resurrection from the dead, He established to His disciples that He was in fact alive forever, and then He ascended into the ...
Brothers and Business Deals
Sermon Video Introduction: By the grace of God, we live in an industrious community of Christians, and it has to be said that this has had a very predictable result. Not unrelated, we are also ...
Honoring God in Personal Finances
Introduction: Martin Luther once said that a man needs to be converted twice. The first conversion is that of his heart, and the second one is of his wallet. What we are going to be addressing here ...
Hard Work and the Sabbath
Sermon Video Introduction: Our elders recently decided that at the beginning of this academic year we were going to have a three-week series of messages on practical Christian living, with different ...
Forgetting What Lies Behind
Philippians (12): Sermon Video Introduction: One of the great things I learned from my father is that “God takes you from where you are, and not from where you should have been.” All of ...