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The Leaven in Three Measures | Parables IV Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID Sermon #1696 – A.D. November 4, 2012 Texts: Matt. 13:33; Luke 13:20-21 YouTube version of sermon HERE.             Sermon Clips: A Tent Down the Road from Sodom Abraham and Hipster Bread TThree Measures of Flour The Leaven of Egypt Leavened Bread at Pentecost Sermon Outline: INTRODUCTION: We come to a parable that has traditionally been interpreted in two diametrically opposed ways. One view

The Mustard Seed Kingdom | Parables III Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID Sermon #1695 – A.D. October 28, 2012 Texts: Matt. 13:31-32 YouTube version of sermon HERE.             Sermon Clips: Society Loves to Honor Dead Trouble-Makers Small Beginnings and Constantine Think Like Seed Sermon Outline: INTRODUCTION: In this parable, the Lord Jesus teaches us not to despise the day of small beginnings (Zech. 4:10). We see a disproportionate result from the tiniest of garden seeds—an herbal

Hear, O Israel | Reformation Sunday 2012 (Peter Leithart) Peter Leithart Christ Church – Moscow, ID Sermon #1694 – A.D. October 28, 2012 Text: Isaiah 48 AUDIO ONLY AVAILABLE.           

Wheat & Darnel | Parables II Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID Sermon #1693 – A.D. October 21, 2012 Texts: Matt. 13:24-30, 36-43             Sermon Clips: Darnel Takes Hostages Ecclesiastical Ethnic Cleaning False Wheat and Regeneration When Jesus Says “Do Nothing” Resentment or Humility? Sermon Outline: INTRODUCTION: The problem of good and evil inhabiting the same place is a perennial problem. It has been a problem within the church from the very beginning, and Jesus taught in

Sower, Soils, Seed | Parables I Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID Sermon #1692 – A.D. October 14, 2012 Texts: Matt. 13:1-23; cf. Mark 4:3-9, 14-26; Luke 8:14-15             Sermon Clips: Parables Not Aesop’s Fables Four Soils, Four Eras Corporate or Personal: A False Alternative Parables are Messages of the Kingdom Christ Church Choir: Ps 126 Sermon Outline: INTRODUCTION: The central method that Jesus employed in His teaching is the method of setting forth parables. That means

Pulpit Freedom Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID Sermon #1691 – A.D. October 7, 2012 Text: Acts 17:5-9             Sermon Clips: Religious Freedom and the 1st Amendment Who is Being Extreme? Three Points on the Resurrection Jesus: Lord of the Public Square Sermon Outline: INTRODUCTION: Today, October 7, 2012, is Pulpit Freedom Sunday. In 1954, the Johnson Amendment was passed which asserted the federal government’s right to set limits on what could and could not be preached

Joy and Melancholy Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID Sermon #1690 – A.D. September 30, 2012 Text: 1 Thes 5:23               Sermon Clips: A Hard Line on Chemicals Joy is a Job for the Church Joy That’s Not For Hermits Masking and Restoration Drugs Preserved Spirit, Soul, and Body The Bone Sticking Out Sermon Outline: INTRODUCTION: What are we to make of a disruption of joy that does not appear to proceed from unconfessed sin, and

JOY AND AFFLICTION Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID Sermon #1689 – A.D. September 23, 2012 Text: 2 Cor. 6: 3-10               Sermon Clips: Joy: A House Facing the Sea   The Sovereign Storyteller A Bundle of Contradictions: Diploma Without the Classes INTRODUCTION: We have seen that one cause of disrupted joy is the fact of unrepented and unconfessed sin. The second cause, the one we will consider today, is the relationship of joy and affliction.

Joy and Sin – Psalm 51:12 Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID Sermon #1688 – A.D. September 16, 2012 Text: 1 John 1:5-2:2            

Joy and Sin – Psalm 51:12 Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID Sermon #1687 – A.D. September 16, 2012 Text: Psalm 51:12 Trouble with the video? Try our YouTube version HERE.            

On Telling God to Hurry Up | Psalm 70 Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID Sermon #1686 – A.D. September 9, 2012 Text: Psalm 70 Trouble with the video? Try our YouTube version HERE.             INTRODUCTION: There are two fundamental approaches to God, as far apart as Heaven and Hell. One sees the Lord God Almighty, high and lifted up. The other is the domestic animal approach to God, where the ostensible worshipper keeps a god on

What Makes the Humble Glad | Psalm 69 Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID Sermon #1685 – A.D. September 2, 2012 Text: Psalm 69 Video not playing properly? Try out YouTube version HERE.               INTRODUCTION: The wisdom of Scripture does not just offend the carnal heart here or there. Rather, God’s ways of operating are offensive to the unconverted heart across the board. THE TEXT: “Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto

Let God Arise | Psalm 68 Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID Sermon #1684 – A.D. August 26, 2012 Text: Psalm 68               INTRODUCTION: This psalm is possibly a psalm to accompany the transport of the ark of the covenant to its new home on Mt. Zion. In the song it reenacts the great victories of God, and appropriately became the battle hymn of the Covenanters and the Huguenots. The reach of this psalm is high,

Nations Singing for Joy – Psalm 67 Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID Sermon #1683 – A.D. August 19, 2012 Text: Psalm 67               INTRODUCTION: It may be tempting to summarize this psalm as saying something like “praise God, everybody!” While it is certainly saying more than this, it is absolutely not saying anything less than this. And even this glorious exhortation has to have the ramifications fleshed out some more. THE TEXT: “God be merciful

Refined Like Silver – Psalm 66 Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID Sermon #1682 – A.D. August 12, 2012 Text: Psalm 66               INTRODUCTION: God is the Lord of our hearts, and He is the Lord over the world. He acts within us, and He acts outside of us, on our behalf. He does things for us, and He does things to us. He does things in the world to shape us, and He does things