Winter Conference 2012
Studying the Book of Matthew
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- I can remember being confused by preaching I heard growing up. On one hand, I would hear appeals to trust Christ and exp...
- The issue of race and the church has received a good deal of attention recently, when a church in Kentucky voted to ban ...
- "For this I was born and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth" (John 18:37). "The ...
- Last Sunday we began a series in the Book of Ruth using the English Standard Version (ESV) as our main translation. For ...
- Last Sunday I gave away ten books to anyone that wanted to pick one up under the condition that they would simply get to...
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- Great answer from David Powlison of the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation. 18685696 ...
- This Friday, a couple from our church - Nathan and Carrie Woods - will fly to Ethiopia to begin the final stages of t...
- Paul David Tripp's parenting seminar "Getting to the Heart of Parenting" is a DVD series (with study guide) that is desi...
- Robbie Low, writing in Touchstone (June 2003), points to an interesting 1994 study in Switzerland about the connection b...
- As we have studied through Colossians 2 together in our Sunday morning services we have seen the reality of our sufficie...
- On Sunday evenings in the month of January I'll be preaching on the topic of texts and translations, answering the quest...
- We are looking forward to a group of men from our church attending the Men's Heart Conference at Northland International...
- In his recent sermon entitled "The Church," Pastor Kevin DeYoung (East Lansing, MI) gives some really helpful suggestion...
- At the heart of the problems in our relationships is self-centeredness. The engine that runs Christ-like relationships i...
- In our study of the book of James we have reached James 4:1-4 which deals with the topic of worldliness. Over the last s...
- Dear Church Family, Yesterday morning we finished our seven week Newcomers Class with a time of question and answer. O...
- In last Sunday's sermon (AM), I mentioned some recent attacks on the deity of Christ, including attacks even on the popu...
- I ran across this article today by Thom Rainer, a long-time pastor who is known for his emphasis on evangelism. It was a...
- This Sunday I will be preaching from James 1:26-27. In verse 26 James says that some people seem to be "religious," but ...
- This Sunday, during the SS hour, I will begin teaching a Newcomers Class. The class is designed to give a grounding in t...
- Christopher Hitchens, perhaps the most famous atheist in the public sphere and best-selling author of the book God is N...
- During this week in which we consider Christ's death and ultimately His resurrection, this is an especially encouraging ...
- But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us Romans 5:8 “I would conclude t...
- I recently read the book Adopted for Life by Russell Moore. I was surprised by how moving and challenging the book was--...
- Someone asked me this question just two weeks ago. It's an important question and we must go to Scripture if we are to h...
- For many years the MacArthur Study Bible has been a wonderful resource for countless Christians. It was the first study ...
- Each month Christian Audio gives away an audio book for free. This month they are giving away two really great books: T...
- I came across these questions yesterday and found them perceptive and challenging: 1. If our church would cease t...
- In our Sunday evening services we have been studying together through the book The Gospel and Personal Evangelism by Mar...
But God shows His love for us
in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us
Romans 5:8
“I would conclude this discourse by putting the godly in mind of the freeness and wonderfulness of the grace of God towards them. For such were the same of you. The case was just so with you as you have heard; you had such a wicked heart, you lived such a wicked life, and it would have been most just with God for ever to have cast you off: but He has had mercy upon you; He hath made His glorious grace appear in your everlasting salvation.
You had no love to God;
but yet He has exercised unspeakable love to you.
You have condemned God, and set light by Him:
but so great a value has God’s grace set on you and your
happiness,that you have been redeemed at the price of the blood of His own Son.
You chose to be with Satan in his service;
but yet God hath made you a joint heir with Christ of His glory.
You were ungrateful for past mercies;
yet God not only continued those mercies,
but bestowed unspeakably greater mercies upon you.
You refused to hear when God called;
yet God heard you when you called.
You abused the infiniteness of God’s mercy to encourage yourself in sin against Him;
yet God has manifested the infiniteness of that mercy,
in the exercises of it towards you.
You have rejected Christ, and set him at nought;
and yet He became your Savior.
You have neglected your own salvation;
but God has not neglected it.
You have destroyed yourself;
but yet in God has been your help.
God has magnified His free grace towards you, and not to others; because He has chosen you, and it hath pleased Him to set His love upon you. O! what cause is here for praise! . . . . You shall never open your mouth in boasting, or self-justification; but lie the lower before God for His mercy to you. You have reason, the more abundantly,to open your mouth in God’s praises, that they may be continually in your mouth, both here and to all eternity, for His rich, unspeakable, and sovereign mercy to you, whereby He, and He alone, hath made you to differ from others.”
-Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758),
from a sermon The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners
