Jun 30, 2023 | Devotional, Sunday Sermons, Theology
This is one of the fruits of preaching through Scripture verse-by-verse: being confronted with doctrines in their context. In the exposition of Romans 8:14, I mentioned that there are only two places in Scripture where the leading of the Holy Spirit is prescriptively...
Jun 8, 2023 | Devotional, Sunday Sermons, Theology
The most controversial interpretive issue in the Book of Romans concerns the identity of the “wretched man” in chapter 7. Normally I don’t trouble you over interpretive controversies. Usually they are divided along relatively neat lines. Typically they are quite...
Jan 9, 2023 | Sunday Sermons
We begin a new sermon series, A People for God: Renewing the Mind of the Church. We are a forgetful people in a land of distractions. Our minds are easily captivated by trivial and temporary inducements. New things quickly become old. In our mind’s eye even glory...
Sep 14, 2022 | Devotional, Sunday Sermons
This Sunday we begin a new series in our study through the book of Romans, “Right with God” (Romans 3:21-4:25). In the first chapter of Romans, Paul announced that he is unashamed of the gospel for two fundamental and inseparable reasons. First, “it is the...
Jun 23, 2022 | Devotional, Sunday Sermons
This Sunday we begin a new series in our study through the book of Romans, “Corrupt and Culpable.” The body of this magisterial letter officially commences at 1:18. Here, we encounter some of the most devasting words in all Scripture. But they are intended...
Jun 2, 2022 | Devotional, Sunday Sermons
If you are in Christ, you are beloved of God—a defining, life-changing, and all-encompassing reality that surpasses finite comprehension and calculation. The apostle Paul addresses the Christians in Rome as “beloved of God,” referring to them as people distinguished...