Sermon Notes

Because God the Creator extends His redeeming love to all mankind, His Law and Gospel protects and renews all life. 1. God's Purposes in Redemption 2. How the Gospel of the Kingdom Transforms How We See Others 3. How These Issues Impact Us – and How the Redeemed...

Wisdom leads us to life, while folly leads us to death. “By placing themselves in the proper subservient position to Yahweh, such people are under his protection.” —Tremper Longman

1. Pray for our knowledge. 2. Pray for our walk. “Or put another way, if our doctrine lifts us so high that our feet cannot reach the ground, it is false. Paul prayed that the Colossians would walk the talk, that their knowledge of Christ would grow, and that this in...

PROP: The suffering Servant’s substitutionary sacrifice saves us from sin and saves us for satisfaction in Him. 1. God provided a way for us to be happy in Him. 2. God invites us to be happy in Him. 3. God commands us to be happy in Him. 4. God’s Word makes us happy...

If you want a sure and steady hope in the midst of life’s uncertainties and adversities, you must base it in the Baby Boy born in Bethlehem. I. Our only true hope: the Baby Boy born in Bethlehem 2000 years ago (9:6a). II. The basis for our hope: the kind of Governor...

1. The Good News is for all to hear (8-14). “The Son of God was born into the world not as a prince but as a pauper. We must never forget that this is where Christianity began, and where it always begins – with a sense of need, a graced sense of one’s insufficiency....

1. Mary travels to visit Zechariah and Elizabeth. 2. Elizabeth’s baby recognizes the Son of God. “There was a strong human joy in the meeting of these two expectant mothers—one in the flower of youth, the other’s bloom long gone. These two were to become innocent...

We must humbly receive the good news about Jesus Christ with joyful surrender to Jesus. 1. God sends Gabriel to Mary. “He might have gone to Jerusalem and picked out Caiaphas’s daughter, who was fair, rich, clad in gold embroidered raiment and attended by a retinue of...

Parents who love their children will diligently seek to discipline their children. What is discipline? Why do we discipline our children? “Loving parents seek to correct the faults of their children because … their children’s lives, favor, protection, healing, dignity...

1. Don’t be stupid! “The sages felt that mistakes provided opportunities for learning. They also apparently assumed that everyone would make mistakes along the way. What they could not tolerate, however, was an attitude of defensiveness that refuses to admit mistakes....