The Journey - Everything (Audio)

Forgiveness is hard because it is costly. And the closer the offender, the harder it is to forgive (flesh this out a little more). In this sermon we will see that forgiveness between a child and his or her parents actually begins by acknowledging the difficult sacrifice God made to forgive sinners.

God intends for marriage to last a lifetime. In this sermon we will see that marriage longevity is only possible through a commitment to work through every argument and difficult circumstance together with God's help.

Everybody wants to be married, but few desire to prepare for marriage. In this sermon we will discuss how singles, dating, and engaged people can prepare for the covenant of marriage.

Ephesians 5 reveals some heavy truths about the way men are instructed to love their wives. We cannot fix a marriage by making everything about marriage. Instead we must make everything about the gospel.

The Bible says that the husband is the first among equals in the covenant of marriage. Husbands are to be loving heads of their home by sacrificing and suffering most and forgiving first. Wives are to submit and respect their husbands just as they submit to and respect the head of the church, Christ. In this sermon, we will see how these seeming impossibilities become possible in Christ.

The blueprint of marriage is that we leave our parents, cling to our spouse as our first and best human friend, and connect emotionally, spiritually, and socially with them. This is covenant. This is marriage.

We never fail God's tests, we just keep taking them. God commands Jonah a second time to call his enemies to repentance. In this sermon we will see that though Jonah repented of his self-righteous, there were deeper levels of it than even he knew.

Jonah repented of sin, by forsaking his idol of comfort and by appealing to God's grace. In this sermon we will see not only what this meant for Jonah, but what repenting of our idols means for us.

God called Jonah, a religious man, to go and love irreligious people. He didn't go because he didn't understand the gospel of grace. Neither do we.

The epic battle between good and evil, between God and Satan will one day come to an end. And Jesus, the Lamb of God who died and rose again, will be finally acknowledged as the victor.

Acts 29 Midwest Quarterly - 8/17/10

Acts 29 Midwest Quarterly - 8/17/10

Acts 29 Midwest Quarterly - 8/17/10

Sound doctrine, loving hearts, and an obedience to the purposes of Christ are the marks of a true Christian. If you don't have these things, you probably don't know Jesus...yet!

In the here and now we can expect trials to come. In the future we can expect Jesus to come back. Keeping an eternal perspective in mind allows us to see our suffering as a blessing from God.