It’s been a while since I have written a Your Weekend Prayer version of Words of Grace. I decided to do so today because I have found myself praying this week while working on the sermon for Sunday. So why not ask you to join...
“What God has made clean, no longer call unclean.” Acts 10:15 Sometimes the gospel is presented as God helping us overcome a negative view of ourselves. But the good news is really that God cleanses us from the defilement of our sin and makes us something new...
Yes, you read the title correctly. There is a time when works lead to faith. A cherished doctrine of the gospel is that we are saved by grace through faith, and not by works (Ephesians 2: 8-9). The work of salvation is all Christ’s, who died...
My Bible app tells me that in the book of Philippians the Apostle Paul makes thirty-five references to “Christ”. That’s impressive given that Philippians is only three and a half pages of the Bible. But what is more impressive than the quantity of references to Christ...
When reading the Bible, we often find small pieces of doctrine among the larger narratives of God’s grace. If we stop to investigate, we are richly rewarded with grace upon grace. So it is with the epic account of the conversion of Saul of Tarsus....
“Therefore, welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.” Romans 15:7 (ESV) Attending church on Sundays should be more like going to a family reunion than to a concert or a movie. In other words, gathering for church comes with responsibilities and...
True spiritual engagement that leads to singing the praises of God during Sunday worship is a gift of the Holy Spirit. But there are some things we can think about when coming to church that the Holy Spirit may use to enhance our singing. This is...
We started our year last Sunday in prayer. We heard of steadfast prayer from Colossians 4 and then gathered to pray in the evening. Along with praying together in 2026, we will spend each Lord’s Day letting the word of Christ dwell richly among us in...
Here we are again at the beginning of a new year, calling ourselves to prayer. It seems this has been an annual call since we began as a congregation over 30 years ago. Why this repeated exhortation to seek and beseech the Lord? This is an...
We can often remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when historical events happened. For example, my parents’ generation can tell the story of what they were doing when Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon. The world would never be...
