Category: Sermon Thoughts

  • Praying Psalm 51 – The Prayer from our Service this Morning

    One of the wonderful ways the Psalms are helpful to us is that they model the vertical conversation we can have with our God.  A few years ago we shared Don Whitney’s book Praying the Bible, which shows us how to turn the Psalms and other Scripture passages into prayers.  During our series in the…

  • Smite them Oh Mighty Smiter – Are we to use Imprecatory Psalms

    Psalm 139:19–22 [19] Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me! [20] They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain. [21] Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against…

  • The Incarnation & the Chalcedonian Definition

    The sermon this past Sunday looked at the beautiful story of the virgin conception and birth of Jesus which points us to the great doctrine on the incarnation.  Central to our faith is the reality that God became a human, that divinity put on flesh and dwelt among us.  Central to our faith is the…

  • Jesus, the True and Better

    In the sermon today I mentioned a quote by Tim Keller pointing out how Jesus is the fulfillment of all the promises, prophecies and pictures painted in the Old Testament.  Here’s the quote. “Jesus is the true and better Adam, who passed the test in the garden and whose obedience is imputed to us (1…

  • GIFTED – Study Guide for Series on Spiritual Gifts

    We have created a study guide for our series that begins tomorrow on the topic of Spiritual Gifts.  Our series will cover 1 Corinthians 12-14 over seven weeks.  The topic of Spiritual Gifts can be divisive and difficult, yet it is necessary and has a rich series of texts in Scripture.  This guide goes a…