My 8/17/14AM sermon, God’s Salvation from Romans 9:6-13, is now online. My aim was to wow everyone with God and His amazingly gracious saving acts towards those who don’t deserve them. We all need God’s salvation, He acts to save and it’s not based on our merit. I’m hoping you had a great Lord’s Day exalting Christ. Have a great week.
Weekend Recap – Religious Unbeliever
My 8/10/14AM sermon, Religious Unbeliever from Romans 9:1-5, is now online. This sermon sought to explain how relating to God by faith in Christ is the greatest pursuit of your life, even over and above any religious privilege. This is also the passage that many in Crestview will be studying as they review this sermon tonight in Small Groups (Romans 9:1-5 Talksheet). I’m hoping this sermon not only helps promote faith in Jesus, who is God over all and blessed forever, but fires your heart of love for unbelievers. Blessings.
Weekend Preview – Making Assumptions
I came across this cartoon that relates to the passage we will look at this coming Sunday:
Making assumptions can be a dangerous thing. This is certainly true for religious people. Join us this Sunday as we continue to explore the book of Romans and see some assumptions people made that clouded reality.
And, while you’re at it, maybe read this week’s passage, Romans 9:1-5.
Weekend Recap – Unbreakable Security
My 8/3/14AM sermon, Unbreakable Security from Romans 8:31-39, is now online. The sermon sought to simply ground all people in the unbreakable secure, life-giving foundation that we have in Jesus Christ our Lord. This passage was stirring and moving and personally encouraging, that no matter what face in life, we have hope. So, grab this sermon and find encouragement through it. And, if you were at Crestview this morning, what was the effect of this sermon on your life?
Hope you have a great week.
Weekend Recap – Suffering To Glory
My 7/27/14AM sermon, Suffering to Glory from Romans 8:17-30 is now online. All around us we see that the most precious, most beautiful things come at a cost. It shouldn’t surprise us, therefore, that on the believer’s march to glory, we see suffering. This sermon was an attempt to give confidence and assurance to those who walk this path, that God may extend the grace needed for this journey to people through His Word. I hope it’s encouraging to you.
Weekend Recap – Real Life
My 7/20/14AM sermon, Real Life from Romans 8:1-17, is now online. Romans 8 is a high point in the Bible and I did my best to summarize the main themes and thrusts of this section. God is holding out real life to us in the Gospel. This means we live free, have hope and are adopted. I hope this sermon encourages you and I hope you had a productive Lord’s Day.
Weekend Recap – Law and Sin
My 7/13/14AM sermon, Law and Sin from Romans 7:7-25 is now online. We don’t like God’s Word to do the work of exposing the sham of our lives, so we try and discount what the Bible says. However, as this passage shows, the law was meant to make us aware of how separated we are from God so that we might flee from sin and run to our Rescuer. This sermon sought to wrestle in these realities. I hope it helps you and encourages your living in this world.
Weekend Recap – Married To Christ
My 7/6/14AM sermon entitled Married to Christ from Romans 7:1-6 is now online. It was great to be back in the pulpit after some time of vacation with my family. My sermon picked up my exposition of Romans where I left off before vacation. Paul’s point in the early parts of Romans 7 is that we’re all married to something (either the law or gospel) and only one leads to life. I hope you’ll listen and be encouraged to explore the depths of what the Gospel has done for you.
The “Backstory” of Your Call To Holiness
From the Gospel Transformation Bible on Romans 6:20-23:
These brief verses give the “backstory” of the sanctification promised in the preceding verses. Before the gospel is received, sin has the upper hand (v. 20). There is no way out, and deep down we sense this (v.21). The gospel makes God our Master, produces his fruit in our lives, and sets us on course for the age to come (“eternal life”; v. 22). We do not dread sin’s bitter payoff. There is rejoicing in God’s “free gift” (v. 23). All is of grace.
This is part of a section of Scripture we’ll be exploring this coming Sunday. I hope you come thirsty for more…
Weekend Recap – Freed From Sin
My 6/8/14AM sermon, Freed from Sin out of Romans 6:1-14, is now online. It seems clear to me that grace is on the move in the lives of believers to inform the way they live. And, this passage shows how grace is on the move to change believers so that they are rooted on the proper foundation of union with Christ and called from the sinful allurements of this age to the deeper, full-of-life, eternal reality of holiness before God. This sermon sought to engage this idea and I hope it’s helpful to you.