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This week we consider the glorious doctrine of our adoption as sons through Christ crucified. It is one thing to cleanse someone from their filth, or to pay their debt, or set them free, or even to declare them innocent. And while God does all these...

What does it mean to be a woman? Today we turn to the wisdom of God in the Scriptures to cast a vision for Biblical womanhood and femininity. Men and women were created in the image of God and reflect the unity and diversity of the Godhead. Like our...

When we stand before a Holy God, the Judge of all the world, only one word could describe us: “Guilty.” We have disobeyed God’s commands and broken His law. Like a guilty criminal before a Judge, we stand before God and the evidence of our sin...

In a world of unspeakable evil and suffering, where does God fit in? Is God good but not powerful enough to end evil? Or is God powerful but not good enough to end evil? How can a good and sovereign God allow evil and suffering to continue? Today we...

Americans get debt. We are enslaved by our debt. But the Bible says that we have an even greater debt and an even greater slavery. By the sins we have done and the good we have left undone, we have accumulated spiritual debt. Insurmountable,...

Christ crucified certainly appears weak. A man hung helpless on cross – arms pinned down unable to resist his enemies. A man bleeding out slowly. A man running out of air. A man whose life ebbs away. And yet, the New Testament speaks of the cross...

Why did Jesus die? It’s a simple question and if you’ve ever been to church or Sunday School you’re sure to know the answer. Whatever words you use, the basic answer always comes back – for us. That’s right. That’s true. But could there...

Sin produces guilt. But our sin does more than that. It also produces shame. The Scriptures speak of our sin using various metaphors like nakedness, uncleanness, and defilement. When we sin or are sinned against, our souls are stained, and we feel...

The Bible does not shy away from revealing that among His other attributes, God is a God of wrath. Sin arouses the anger and fury of our Holy God. So then, as sinners, we are all objects of God’s fierce wrath. Our guilt has made us worthy of His...

The substitutionary nature of the death of Christ is in great dispute today. Many dismiss this as a barbaric and primitive notion. Others call it “cosmic child abuse.” Christians, however, call it atonement. Central to the Christian faith is the...

A man named Jesus hanging dead on a cross occupies center stage of the Christian faith. He had been executed like a common criminal in his day. To his fellow Jews, death by crucifixion was an abomination, a sign that he was cursed by God. To everyone...

As soon as they recognize Jesus, what’s the first thing they do? They go on mission. They have to tell everyone they can about Jesus. We long for our community to respond the same way to Jesus and His Gospel.

Jesus is right next to them, and yet they can’t see Him. Biblically, we’re convinced that apart from God opening our eyes, we are blind to spiritual truths. Our prayer is that our eyes and the eyes of our city would be opened and our hearts set...

Jesus unfolds the Scriptures and shows the two disciples how all of it was about Him. The Scriptures transform their hearts and ours as well. We want to read, study, preach, pray, believe, and live the Bible. As we do, we want to see Jesus and His...

You can’t read the seven mile road story and not see Jesus everywhere. He appears on the road, teaches the Scriptures, encounters their unbelief, and opens their eyes. The whole thing is centered on Him. We want our church to be the same way where...

Confused. Sad. Disappointed. Blind. Unbelieving. Those words not only accurately describe the men in the story, they describe us as well. We are broken people in a broken world. We long to be a people that recognize our need and encounter Jesus in...

The idea of a journey is an important one in the Scriptures. Spiritual life is rightly seen as a walk with God. None of us have arrived, but lets consider what it looks like to walk together.

So here’s how Matthew’s Gospel and our sermon series ends. The Resurrected, triumphant, sin-defeating, Satan-conquering, death-overcoming, sinner-saving, victorious Lord Jesus stands with his disciples on a mountain in Galilee. He’s standing...

As Jesus emerges from the garden, he’s no longer trembling and troubled, but composed and calm. He is unjustly arrested and brought to trial trumped up on false charges. His accusers move quickly, acting under the cover of night. They have...

Fearless. Authoritative. Composed. Those are probably some of the words you would used to describe Jesus as you scan his life across the pages of the Gospels. He went toe to toe with the tempter and didn’t flinch. He challenged the...