MATTHEW 16:21-23 – From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
New Testament
This Lord’s Day evening we continue our sermon series titled “Our Union in Christ”. The truth of our oneness in the Lord Jesus is the key to understanding our salvation and the way of living out the Christian life. To those ends, we are looking at the necessity of our union in Christ as well as what this union does for us in our relationship to sin.
We continue casting of our vision for 2018 “to love one another” and we are doing so by obeying the Scripture mandate to “examine ourselves.” In this process, Acts 2:42 is our “surgeon” exposing us to what healthy churches and Christians are committed to – “And they continued steadfast in the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread and prayer.” This Lord’s Day, we are looking at “the apostles’ teaching” and the four ways we are devoted to it – hearing, reading, studying and obeying their teaching.
2 CORINTHIANS 7:1 – Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God. THEME OF THE DAY. GOD’S FEAR AND THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. There is nothing we do in life that lacks a motive. Even the routine things in life. It might be simply just…
ACTS 1:6-8 – So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will…
This Lord’s Day evening we will begin a sermon series titled “Our Union in Christ”. The truth of our oneness in the Lord Jesus is the key to understanding God’s purpose in our salvation as well living out the Christian life as He intends; full of joy, direction, and intimacy with Him. As we grasp our oneness in Christ so we grasp the Christian life.