Faith United Reformed Church

Theme: Don't lose heart! The mystery of the Gospel redlines suffering and secures our hope. 1. The Mystery Revealed: God's External Plan for His People 2. The Prisoner Explained: Pauls Digression Showing God's Grace at Work through His Suffering Servant 3. The Discouragement Answered: God's External Purpose Cannot Fail

1. The Curse Reversed 2. The Curse Reinstated/Fulfilled

1. The Preeminence of Preaching 2. The Reasons for Extraordinary Spiritual Gifts 3. The Apostolic Connection to Extraordinary Gifts 4. The Distinction between Revelation and Illumination

1). No Good Deed Goes Unblessed 2). No Mercy for the Merciless

1). What's the Problem? 2). The Perfections of Scripture 3). A Foundation Laid

The Lord's Anger Towards Dishonest Gain Repercussions of Dishonest Gain

Theme: Shepherding in the Shadow of the Chief Shepherd. Understanding Suffering and Glory Leading as Shepherds Avoiding Pitfalls Honoring Christ's Office

Theme: One day, all God's people will dwell with him in glory where there will be no more sin, nor more death, and no more enemies to conquer. 1. Flee to God 2. Feast with God 3. Wait for God

Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 42 Kingdom Giving 1) Some Biblical Examples 2) The Place of Kingdom Giving in Your Life Creatively Serving Christ with Money 1) The "Obstacle" of Tithing

1. PEACE INSUFFICIENT 2. TEMPORARY GLORY 3. FADING WORDS OF A FALSE PRICE

Theme: Seeing the foolishness of adultery through inevitable outcomes should make us once again follow the way of Christ. 1. Unavoidable Destruction (vv. 27-29) 2. Unavoidable Shame (vv. 30-33) 3. Unavoidable Enemy (vv. 34-35)

Theme: Earthly beauty is vain and always changing, but true beauty is one who fears the LORD! 1. Dating advice from God's Word 2. Wrongly Prioritizing Attraction 3. Prioritizing Christ

Theme: Earthly beauty is vain and always changing, but true beauty is one who fears the LORD! 1. Beauty or Beast? 2. Evaluating Physical Beauty 3. Gospel to Our Beauty Standard

Theme: Seeing the foolishness of adultery through inevitable outcomes should make us once again follow the way of Christ. 1. Beware Beauty's Abuse! (v. 25) 2. Grasp the Cost of This Sin! (v. 26)

Theme: Union with Christ creates a new humanity, destroying pride and clarifying the gospel. 1. Unions That Destroys Pride 2. Union That Clarifies the Gospel 3. Union That Hearlds New Creation

1. Solutions to Lust's Attach: Heeding God's Word 2. Solutions to Lust's Attack: Accountability

Theme: God loves us, the unlovely; what more do we need for praise and confidence? 1. Children of Wrath. (2:1-3) 2. Rich in Mercy. (2:4-7) 3. Grace Not Works (2:8-10)

1) The Fruit of Anger: Folly and Sin 2). The Fruit of the Spirit

Theme: But God made us alive with Christ! Totally Depravity (2:1-3) God's Activity (2:4-7) Realized Eschatology (2:6-7) Grace Not Works (2:8-10)

1. Job the Man 2. The Secret Dialogue 3. The Heart-Wrenching Disaster 4. Job's Confession

1. Under His Blessing of Peace 2. Commissioned to Sent into the World with the Gospel 3. Equipped by the Holy Spirit as the Lord of life

Theme: Christ's resurrection no only proves that the gospel promise will come to pass, but that because Jesus was raised, we will also be raised. 1. The Blessed Hope of Resurrection 2. How Resurrection Benefits Us

Theme: Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life, do you believe this? 1. Unanswered Prayers Answered 2. Undoing Death 3. Unbelievable Emotion 4. Unintended Truth

GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE Theme: Rejoice in the Better Day of Atonement 1. A Better Blood 2. A Better Covenant 3. A Better Fellowship

Anger in the Mirror: Understanding Our Struggle with Anger The Wisdom that Holds It Back The Wisdom of Sin, Salvation, and Service

A Three-Part Petition for Enlightenment 1. First Petition: Knowing the Father's Hopefilled Call 2. Second Petition: Knowing the Father's Beloved Inheritance 3. Third Petition: Knowing the Father's Immeasurable Power Displayed in Christ.

Confession: Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 10 1. Why does life matter? 2. Various Kinds of Murder 3. The Guilt of the Silent Bystander

Theme: Paul's ceaseless prayer shows us what's really important: to have our eyes attuned to His work! 1. The Apostle's Ceaseless Prayer 2. Informing Our Own Prayers

1. Paul Correcting A Parenting Error 2. Propensities of Heavy-Handed Parent - Over Protection - Favoritism - Pushing Achievement - Discouragement - Failing to Sacrifice - Neglect - Bitter Words and Physical Cruelty 3. Look to the LORD ** Sermon cut short due to power outage during service

Theme: Praise God for the bountiful blessings of Adoption, Revelation, and Spiritual Sealing! 1. Adoption 2. The Revelation Mystery 3. The Sealing of the Holy Spirit

Theme: The preaching of the Word of God is the work of God. 1. Conduct of the preacher 2. Content of the preaching 3. Character of the Hearers

Theme: Our Triune God must be praised for the blessings of salvation, and only He may be praised. 1. The Trinitarian Expression 2. The Love of Electrion

1. Warning 2. Parable 3. Being rich toward God

Theme: Ephesians is all about the praise of the Triune God through what He has done for us in Christ, forming our identity as His unified righteous people. 1. Introduction 2. Historical Situation 3. Purpose and Message a. Trinitarian Paradigm b. A High Christology c. A High Ecclesiology d. Love

Theme: Whether the rod be held in God's hand or by earthly parents, it is a loving means for sanctification and protection.

Theme: Wether the rod be held in God's hand or by earthly parents, it is a loving means for sanctification and protection. 1) Answering Objections 2) Walking Through Proverbs

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Deuteronomy 6:1-9; Proverbs 22:6 1) You must train up your children, bind it on their hearts 2) Guard against the obstacles of instruction

Obadiah 19-21 Theme: Do we see our bright future in Christ? 1) Kingdom geography 2) Kingdom saviors 3) See His victory, trust in His vengeance!

Proverbs 17:25; 22:6 Theme: The purpose of biblical parenting is to in all ways set children on the way of sincere love for God expressed through faith in Christ Proverbs' method and manner: - Wisely and lovingly - Situationally aware, applied with great foresight - God oriented - Covenantal foundation Proverbs parental obligation -

Obadiah 17-18 Theme: Our beautiful escape in Christ 1) Who escapes and who finishes last? 2) The day of the Lord, It's timing 3) The day of the Lord, the day of a Cross

Selected Proverbs; Confession Lord's Day 39 Theme: The honor we show our parents shows our honor for God. The honor Christ shows His Father reveals His righteousness and thus, by faith, our righteousness. 1) The foundation of honoring authority, the honor we show God 2) The shame of dishonor 3) The price of dishonor