In this message, Pastor Matt instructs us why God gave Israel food laws, and why the Christian does not need to follow them now: 1. Because Christ’s touch sanctifies 2. Because Christ unites all people 3. Because Christ defeats death A Further Defence of Bacon Yes, I already preached a sermon called “In Defence of…
The Reality of Death We believe that late one Friday almost 2,000 years ago, a largely unremarkable corpse of a crucified Jew was laid in a cold, hard tomb. He had said, “It is finished.” He had breathed his last. His heart stopped beating. Without blood flow, all the cells in his body began to…
In this message, Pastor Matt informs us of three ways we can grow the love of God in our hearts. 1. By seeing God 2. By knowing God 3. By loving as God defines loveAuthentic Love What Is Authenticity? What is authenticity? What is real and from the heart? In an age where everyone is…
In this message, Pastor Matt describes three things God accomplishes through our sin. 1. God works through our sins to reveal his grace 2. God works through our sins to draw us to Christ as our intercessor 3. God works through our sins to draw us to Christ’s sufficiency
In this message, Pastor Ben takes us through Deuteronomy 8, and three signs of God’s covenant grace. 1. The discipline of the wilderness 2. The abundance of the Promised Land 3. The warnings against pride Remembrance: What Does It Mean to Truly Remember? What Does It Mean to Truly Remember? Remembering in Scripture is not…
In this message, Pastor Ben describes three key attributes of God’s covenant love. 1. God’s love tolerates no rivals for his people’s affection 2. God sanctifies and blesses those he loves 3. God empowers those he loves for obedience Thanks be to God for the reading of His Word. If you have a bulletin, there…
Deuteronomy 6 – Getting God’s Law into Your Heart Okay, Deuteronomy 6. Very simple message today: getting the law into your heart — or, said another way, getting God’s way of how to live into your heart. The Ten Commandments and the Covenant Last week we learned that the Ten Commandments are not primarily “law”…
Introduction: The “Ten Words” and the Decalogue Last week I explained how the Ten Commandments can give the impression that they’re just a list of rules. I suggested trying to think of them as the “Ten Words.” Then, on Monday morning, I realized there’s already a name for that: the Decalogue. “Deca” means ten, and…
In this message, Pastor Matt informs us how the Ten Commandments are the basis for how the redeemed people of God must live. 1. They contain the gospel 2. They are spiritual (concerned with our hearts and our actions) 3. They teach us how to love. Are the Ten Commandments Bad? That is actually the…
In this message, Pastor Matt discusses the three things we want from our idols (control, deliverance, transcendence), and how these things are only found in worshipping and serving the one true God. Introduction and Approach to Deuteronomy As we continue through Deuteronomy, I am not going to explain every single thing in every single verse—that…