Sermon Video Introduction: As many of you know, it is our custom to have a “state of the church” message around the beginning of each new year, and that message will be coming next week. But, ...
Mistaken Faithful Prayer
These Our Turbulent Mercies
Sermon Video Introduction: A little over a week from now, we will be selecting our next president. In preparation for this, and because Christ is Lord of everything we do, we need to consider ...
Boldness When It Counts
Sermon Video Introduction: One of our generation’s hackneyed cliches is the one about “speaking truth to power.” The problem with it is that we almost always get everything backwards, and ...
Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve/To Think Soberly
Sermon Video Introduction: The sons of Adam and daughters of Eve have always had to deal with the presence of sin, at least since the third chapter of Genesis. We have to “budget” for it, ...
Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve/Young Men and their Strength
Sermon Video Introduction: As we seek to address the marital dislocations that confront us in every direction, remember that we want to do so in a way that respects the men, particularly the young ...
Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve/True Counterculture
Sermon Video Introduction: It is the central duty of every Christian preacher to preach Christ, and to do so in way that cannot be confused with anything else. Our normal procedure for doing this ...
Blood, Sap, and Salt
Sermon Video Introduction: As we look at the state of the culture around us, we sometimes feel like we are locked in the graduate school of sin, in what appears to be some kind of demented calculus ...
When Desire Divides
Sermon Video Introduction: You should recall that at our previous joint worship service earlier this summer, the emphasis was on two kinds of unity. The first is a unity that we are given by grace, ...
Unity in Two Forms
Sermon Video Introduction: As the church of God grows and increases in the world, there will always be problems that are associated with that increase. You cannot have growth in this fallen world ...
What Worship Accomplishes
Sermon Video Introduction: We ascend into the heavenlies in our worship and meet with our God there (Heb. 12:22). But this heavenly worship is not something that has somehow run fearfully away ...