As we continue to tell the story of how the Christ child was born, we need to take into account the story that his birth place had already been telling for centuries. That small town provided the perfect ...
Black Bethlehem
A Chalcedon Christmas #3
Sermon Video Introduction: At the beginning of Hebrews 3, we are told that Jesus Christ is the Apostle and High Priest of our confession. As an apostle, sent from the Father, He represents God ...
A Chalcedon Christmas #2
Sermon Video Introduction: As we reflect on the mystery of the Incarnation, we have to recognize that we are dealing with a staggering miracle. And the miraculous aspect of it has to do with what ...
A Chalcedon Christmas #1
Sermon Video Introduction : In our denomination, all churches are required to adopt three creeds into their statement of faith. Those three are from the time of the early church, and are the Apostles ...
Thanksgiving 2021
I want to take just a moment to recount the Lord’s goodness to me. Just as unexpressed honor is dishonor, so also unexpressed gratitude is ingratitude. One of the things that the psalmist knew how to do was itemize (e.g Ps. 136). The only reference I will make to the tumultuous times in which we …
The Holy Spirit and a Sound Mind/Pentecost 2021
Sermon Video Introduction: One of the common mistakes that Christians make as they think about the Holy Spirit—who was poured out upon the Church at Pentecost—is the mistake of depersonalizing ...
Resurrection Authority/Easter 2021
Sermon Video Introduction: Because Jesus rose from the dead, in fulfillment of the words of the ancient prophets (Acts 3:24), and because He did so in fulfillment of His own confident pronouncements ...
I Adjure You by the Living God
Good Friday 2021: The story of our Lord’s passion is a story that is saturated in ironies. One of those ironies is found in how the high priest got Jesus to speak at His trial, and what the Lord ...
And Famously Wrapped in Swaddling Clothes
Christmas Eve 2020: If we understand the message of Christmas rightly, we understand it not only as the celebration of the birth of the Christ, but also as the starting point or birthplace of our faith. According ...
Advent and Angels
Introduction: One of the more obvious things about the Christmas story (as Scripture records it) would be prevalence of angels in it. The angel Gabriel appears to Zechariah to tell him about the birth ...