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Main Idea: Knowing what foolish worship looks like can help us worship wisely.  At this point in Ecclesiastes, Solomon turns his eyes upward toward God, more so than he has already. He directly commands his readers to be careful ...

Main Idea: Correctly understand sin to clarify those who are truly Christians and motivate you to purify yourself from sin. Consider the practice of sinConsider the severity and source of sinRemember why Chri...

Main Idea: Malachi exhorts the priests to be faithful by showing them the gravity of unfaithfulness and the glory of the priesthood. The passage also points to the grace of the Faithful Priest. Call to Faithfulness (...

Tragedy Turned into Bitterness Tragedy followed this poor woman. And she blamed it all on God. She and her husband and two sons left their hometown and went to a foreign country to escape famine. Instead of a temporary exile, they remain...

While reading the book of Exodus with my family a few weeks ago we came upon the scene at the foot of Mt. Sinai where Aaron molds a golden calf at the commissioning of the people while Yahweh met with Moses on the mountain above them. Talk about s...

Luke addresses three kinds of thinking Big Idea: Luke tells us the account of an unlikely convert that beckons us to receive Christ and find others who are unlikely to receive him. An U...

Main idea: Be a repenter or perish 1. All will face death and judgment 2. All will see God’s patience come to an end Romans 2:4-5 "Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing tha...

“Does sin have sizes or degrees?” This question was posed to me during our missionary church planting context in Tenerife. Maybe you have asked the same or similar question. Why would we ask this question? Maybe we have wanted to win a theolog...

With a little help from John Piper (A Hunger for God), Donald Whitney (Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life) and a couple of others, I have tried to outline the biblical occasions for fasting. Here is the fruit of tha...

Introduction: Main idea: God is a good and holy father who grants forgiveness to his children when they ask with the right heart Understand your daily need of forgiveness...

If you have spent any time around Christians at Christmas, you have probably heard the phrase ‘Jesus is the reason for the season’. It’s a good statement, intended to counteract the overwhelming voices saying otherwise, voices bent on making...

Notes The Dynamics of True Hearing (Luke 8:1–8, 11–15)The Source of True Hearing (Luke 8:9–10)...

I often hear people refer to themselves or others as having “an addictive personality.” Some people do seem to have a stronger propensity than others for getting “hooked” on certain behaviors. That propensity exists in everyone to some deg...

When someone asks you to tell your personal life story it is always difficult to know where to start and what information to include. There is a mountain of innumerable detail that makes my story unique from yours and your story unique from mine. ...

Jesus is the Savior of the repentant, not the self-righteous. Sermon Notes Main Idea: Jesus is the Savior of the repentant, not the self-righteous. 1. Jesus is Savior of the repentant not self-righteous isolationists...

Jesus shows us in Luke 5:17-26 that He—as God—has the power to forgive sins. Sermon Notes Main idea: Be certain that Jesus forgives sins! 1. Become convinced that Jesus forgives sins (Luke 5:1...

Why study the Ten Commandments? Our very brief answer to that significant question is because the law reveals the holy character of God and simultaneously defines how our lives must reflect that holy character. Jesus taught that the law is summed ...

The way we react to God’s word can bring stability in an unstable world Sermon Notes Three reactions to God’s word that bring stability in an unstable world   1. Long for the wonderful word toge...

It is an unfortunate reality in our world that certain words or phrases mean different things to different people. It’s hard to communicate when you use a phrase, and mean something very specific by it, and it is understood in a way completely d...

The Biblical cure for senioritis, the summer break itch and the poison of procrastination. Proverbs on laziness, diligence, and eternal productivity...

Man goes up in sin, God comes down in judgment 1. The Aim Behind Babel (v. 1-4) Significance Security 2: God's Decisive Hand in Babel (v. 5-9) God's AssesmentG...

God's judgement on sin is actually loving. He will bring justice for all those who have been sinned against, and restore right order to everything....

As believers we should be able to look back at our former lives and see a difference. God has changed our nature, do we live consistently with that change? Ephesians 4:17-19 gives us a picture of what our former lives looked like, keeping this in ...

The Story of Joseph and his brothers shows us how God can intend evil for good. “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.” Genesis...

The story of salvation has been planned by God from the beginning, and he has guided the events of human history all along to accomplish it through Christ. The ancient roots of this story are weaved throughout the whole Bible....

True unity of all people from every race, culture and background can only come through Christ. The beautiful picture of people from every tribe and tongue and nation worshiping God together is the end goal. (...

Find answers to questions like: What is our natural condition? What does it mean to have a sin nature? How gracious is God? How can we have salvation? Is salvation by grace alone? What does it mean to be spiritually dead? What are trespasses and s...

We all desire a perfect world, because that's where we were originally designed to live. Adam and Eve lived in a perfect world, in perfect relationship with God, until the serpent twisted God's words to cast doubt on his goodness and they doubted ...

God's faithfulness, redemption and sovereignty in man's failures. Redeeming grace.Download Word DocumentDownload button ...

The end of the world system is good news for the believer, and can help drive us to fight worldliness in our own hearts now. How can you cultivate dependent contentment, prize the holiness and righteousness of Christ, and make daily sacrifices of ...

Glory ravaged, Glory restored. God vindicates His name....

prayers of confession from a contrite heart ...

Jesus is the light of nations...