Sermons

Solitary Spiritual Survival Skills

How can Christians survive during a time when we are cut off from corporate worship?…

The Plague of Our Hearts

When Solomon dedicated the Temple, he spoke of the plague of our hearts: our own…

Love’s Shibboleth

The gospel lies at the centre of true Christian love. It is the ‘Shibboleth” of…

Love’s Sharp Edges

The boundary of Christianity is the gospel. If the gospel is transgressed, John warns us…

Love’s True Shape

Love is neither sentiment nor pure will. John teaches that love is both true ideas…

The Resurrection Hoax

Some claim that the Resurrection is a hoax foisted upon the world. But Scripture teaches…

Loving in the Truth

Love and truth exist in an inseparable relationship. Second and 3 John help us to…

Expecting and Explaining Your Harvest

Galatians 6:7-8 gives us a clear understanding of why our spiritual lives are where they…

A Task Unfinished

The Great Commission is more than a call to evangelism. It is a call to…

Work and Evangelism

The workplace will be one of the greatest opportunities for evangelism available. How to both…

Work and Gender, Marriage and Stage of Life

Working as a Christian presents great challenges as the world assaults the biblical view of…

Ethics in the Workplace

The workplace confronts the Christian with numerous ethical dilemmas. How should a Christian respond to…

Faithful Employees, Fair Employers

The two poles of a Christian work environment are faithful employees and faithful employers.

Work: Idol or Idle

Two wrong extremes exist in work: to be idle when we do it, or to…

The Doctrine of Vocation

The Bible describes our work as part of our calling. The doctrine of calling, or…

A Theology of Work

God Himself is a worker, and created man to work. Creation, fall, redemption, and restoration…

Discouragement and Desire

Psalm 42 and 43 describe a true believer’s struggle with darkness and depression. His confrontation…

Bear With This Exhortation

The book of Hebrews closes with the exhortation that believers can, and will endure to…

The Privilege of a Pilgrim Church

The church is called to ‘go out the camp’ to where Jesus is. We are…

The Encouraging Power of Brotherly Love

To endure to the end, we need brotherly love: hospitality, purity between men and women,…

The Awesome Reality of True Christianity

Christianity is not a fiction, nor is an ancient tale. The writer of Hebrews wants…

A Dragon, A Woman, and a Child

Revelation 2 takes in the whole scope of human history: the fall of Satan, the…

The Church That Encourages

Perseverance is not simply a solitary affair. Making it to the finish requires that we…

The Profit of Parental Pain

Being chastened by God is not pleasant. Hebrews does encourage us to consider this chastening…

Faithful to the Finisher of Our Faith

Hebrews is all about enduring to the end. Using a race metaphor, the writer gives…

Faith From Moses to Messiah

Christianity is not a new religion, begun with Jesus and the apostles. Jesus represents its…

The Faith of the Patriarchs

Faith finds several illustrations in the lives of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph.

Faith Before the Flood

Faith is like the worship of Abel, the communion of Enoch, and the resolve of…

Persevering Pilgrims

True believers embrace their status as pilgrims.

No More Sacrifice

Hebrews warns that a rejection of Christ leaves one with no alternative sacrifice.

Practices of the Christian Life—Making Disciples Through Discipleship

Making disciples requires persistent teaching, supervising, and involvement.

Practices of the Christian Life—Making Disciples Through Evangelism

To love our neighbours, we must be willing to make disciples.

Practices of the Christian Life—Giving in the Local Church

Part of a healthy Christian life is New Testament giving.

Practices—Purity in the Local Church

Holding one another accountable and pursuing holiness is also a necessary practice of the Christian…

Practices of the Christian Life—Unity in the Local Church

Maintaining unity is essential to life in a healthy local church.

Practices—Church Life

Christians must learn how to live life in the community of the local church.

Practices of the Christian Life—Church Membership

Church membership is part of how we practice the Christian life.

Practices of the Christian Life—The Local Church

The local church is fundamental to the practice of the Christian life.

Practices of the Christian Life—Prayer (2)

Prayer has several components, according to Scripture.

Practices of the Christian Life—Prayer (1)

Alongside meditation, prayer is a fundamental practice of the Christian life.

Practices of the Christian Life—Meditation

Meditation on Scripture is at the heart of private worship.

Practices of the Christian Life—The Lord’s Supper

The Lord’s Supper is the pinnacle of the practice of public worship.

Practices of the Christian Life—Public Worship

The most fundamental practice of the Christian life is public worship.

The Practices of the Christian Life—Discipline

Spiritual discipline is fundamental to the Christian life.

Grace, Faith, & Humility

Communion with God is only possible through God’s grace, true faith, and real humility.

Cleansing

God’s cleansing of us is both in our conscience and in our life, resulting in…

Conviction and Confession

Maintaining communion involves responding to God’s conviction with confession of sin.

Consecration

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Communing With God

Communing with God involves contemplating Him, consecrating all to Him, being controlled by the Spirit,…

The Process of the Christian Life

The Christian life is a process of communing with God in a cycle of growing…

The Spirit, Our Position & Security

The Christian life is a tension between enduring, and knowing that God will keep us…

The Trinity and Our Position

Father, Son and Spirit work together to bring the grace that enables us to love…

Our Position in Christ

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Loving God Rightly

Though the Great Commandment is simple, many people misunderstand what it is to love God…

The Great Priority

Can we take in the whole Christian life? The Great Commandment summarises all of Christianity.

The Heart of True Religion

What does true religion aim at? What is the great purpose of Christ’s atonement

The Resurrection and No Other Name

Paul staked the exclusivism of Christ on the resurrection.

Final Offering

Christ is not only the final priest in the true tabernacle, but He is the…

The Last Will and Testament of Jesus the Messiah

As wills convey inheritances, so the new covenant is Messiah’s last will and testament to…

Effectual Conscience-Cleansing

What will completely and finally relieve the human conscience from its burden of guilt?

New Testament Realities

God promised Israel a new covenant. This was because the new covenant could bring about…

No Tongue Can Bid Me Thence Depart

Complete and secure salvation depends on Christ’s intercession for us. His Person and His Permanence…

A Priest of a Higher Law

Are we still under the Law of Moses? Hebrews couldn’t make the point clearer: if…

A Priest Superior to Levi

The mysterious Melchizedek: who was he? Why does the writer of Hebrews compare him to…

The Power to Persevere Through Promises

The power to persevere in faith is greatly connected to promises.

Reasons to Persevere

Hebrews calls upon us to persevere. Perseverence is a momentous reality: evidence that we are…

No Second Salvation

If salvation could be lost, it could never be gained back. If so, then there…

Faithful and Slothful Steward

The parable of the two stewards teaches that there are two responses to the Master’s…

Discerning Authorities

Since no one is an island, we must trust others to teach us. Since teachers…

How the Wise Seek

In the Magi from the East, we have an amazing account of how wisdom seeks…

Discerning the World

Discernment must seek to understand the meaning of the world around us if we are…

Discerning the Word

Much of discernment is learning how to compare Scripture with Scripture.

Developing Discernment

How is discernment developed? It is not a matter of information, but of relationship.

The Meaning of Discernment

Discernment is more than being biblical, and more than being polemical. Discernment is a skill…

Arrested Development

Normal Christian development involves Christians becoming teachers of others. When something goes wrong, a regression…

Messiah the High Priest

The High Priest of Israel was to have sympathies with God and man. Messiah mirrors…

A Sinless and Sympathetic High Priest

We should approach the throne, because Christ is not only sinless, but also sympathetic.

The Power of the Word

The Bible is not a dead book but is God’s living and powerful Word.

Faith’s Rest

Restlessness characterises the world. The believer in Christ actually has three kinds of rest, that…

A Christian View of Technology

Technology is meant to be a servant, but to often it becomes a master. How…

A Christian View of Recreational Alcohol and Drugs

Does the Bible address the issue of alcohol and drugs? What should Christians think of…

A Prophet Superior to Moses

Since prophets communicate God’s Word to man, who is the final and ultimate prophet?

A King Superior to Angels

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From Drifting to Denying

The five warning passages show the progress of unbelief from drifting, to doubting, to dullness,…

The Meaning of Faith

If we misunderstand what faith is, we will keep reading our misunderstanding into Scripture every…

Faithful to the Finisher of the Faith

The great theme of Hebrews is being faithful to the Finisher of the faith, to…

A Christian View of Clothing

Clothes are more than decorative. Our clothing reflects much of our view about beauty and…

A Christian View of Food

Food remains a contentious matter. What does the Bible teach about food?

The Weak and Worldly Cross

The Cross confronts our ideas of appealing to man or confronting him with his need.

Freely Give, Freely Receive

The giving of the Israelites teaches how giving works in an economy of freedom.

Getting Back Up

How should we get back up, when we find ourselves in a spiritual ditch?

The Motivation of Manhood—Significance Through Service

Manhood finds its significance ultimately through serving others. Humility is therefore the path to exaltation…

The Mettle of Manhood

Purity and a clean conscience is at the heart of biblical manhood. Avoiding impurity and…

The Means of Biblical Manhood

Masculinity depends on Spirit-enabled self-mastery.

The Mandate of Biblical Manhood

What is a true man? What is biblical masculinity?

Don’t Refuse to Follow

The Israelites turned back just before entering the land. The second warning passage calls on…

The Greatest Prophet

No prophet was venerated like Moses. But the comparison between the two shows why Christ…

Why We Need a God-Man

Christ became lower than the angels, so as to restore to man the inheritance now…

Pay Attention to Christ or Pay the Price

The first warning passage in Hebrews calls on its readers to beware of drift.

The Answer to Michael’s Name

Michael means “Who is Like God?” Which ange is like God? The answer is, not…