The Foundation of a True Church
1 Thessalonians 1:1-5 As we turn our attention to God’s word this morning, I’d like you to open your Bibles to Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonian church, 1 Thessalonians. 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10. “Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your…
The Lineage of the Last Adam
Luke 3:23-38 One of the joys of expository preaching is that you get to be exposed to all different portions of Scripture. Not many preachers would on their own choose to preach through genealogies, but expository preaching is a method of preaching that requires you to move verse by verse, passage by passage through the Scripture. So, I’m forced to do this, but gratefully so. I am very much encouraged by this passage and I hope you are as…
The Covenantal Divide: The Anointing of Jesus
Luke 3:21-22 Jesus baptism was the context of his anointing by God for the unique role and the special ministry as Israel’s Messiah. And I just want to start by reading those two verses, you know, we talked about this last week, but we’re going to finish it up here today. We’re gonna start by reading those two verses, then I’ll make a few comments just by way of review. It says in Luke 3:21, “Now when all the people…
The Covenantal Divide: The Baptism of Jesus
Luke 3:21-22 These are monumentally important verses. These two verses here really represent a high point in redemptive history. This is a zenith that marks the division between the two covenants of the Bible, very, very important text. This is what you might call a watershed text. I’m calling these two verses, Luke 3:21 to 22, the covenantal Divide. The covenantal divide. And for this week, we’re going to consider the role of Jesus’ baptism in that divide, and next…
Reacting to Words of Warning
Luke 3:15-20 Women are learners, they’re students of Scripture, and Luke acknowledges that all the way through the Gospel. Christ acknowledges that in his ministry to women directly. But our passage today has nothing to do with women. It’s got to do with people. So if you are “a people,” it has to do with you. We’re going to go back to our study of Luke’s Gospel. I’m actually going to start in John chapter 10. If you turn to…
How to Preach Repentance, Part 3
Luke 3:10-14 This is really the fifth message in a, in this series. So we’ll start back where we started a few weeks back in Chapter 3, verse 1. Follow along as I read Luke 3:1 and following. “In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias, the tetrarch of Abilene, during the…
An Excellent Woman
Proverbs 31 Audio from the Women of God conference hosted by Grace Church in Greeley, CO
The Design of a Woman
Selected Scriptures As I prepared to address you this evening, I came across um, an insightful article written by a woman named Erin Davis. It was entitled, “Why I’m Sick of Women’s Conferences.” That piqued my interest. And I thought, “Boy, I oughta make sure I don’t make any of the mistakes that she mentions in planning this.” So she began her article with this complaint, here’s what she said, “There is a message I hear at most women’s conferences…
How to Preach Repentance, Part 2
Luke 3:10-14 As we pointed out last week, the call to repentance is considered by many today to be something that is an addition to the Gospel, rather than the essence of the Gospel itself. For anyone to insist that there must be fruits of repentance, like John commands here, or that there must be works accompanying genuine faith that is considered by many evangelicals today to be the very essence, not of the Gospel, but of legalism. To many…