Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church Sermons

A BECKONING FROM THE LORD OF PRAYER (Luke 11:1-4) Big Idea: Christ lived out & fulfilled the Lord's prayer, and he invites us to become like him as we pray just as he taught us. Father, an invitation to intimacy with our heavenly Father, just like Jesus Hallowed be your name, an invitation to worship the Father, just like Jesus Your kingdom come, an invitation to The Great Commission & a longing for the realization of heaven, just like Jesus Give us each day our daily bread, an invitation to trust in God's provision, just like Jesus Forgive us our sins & lead us not into temptation, an invitation to holiness, just like Jesus

SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: Our Obedient Decisions are Truly Significant and Important… But God's Gracious Decisions are More Significant and Ultimate. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: The Story of Grace … God's Sovereignty and Our Decisions. (vv. 1-15) SLIDE 4 – 1st Principle (from Point 1): “Our daily decisions are meant to connect us to true belief, real practice, and full allegiance.” SLIDE 5 – 2nd Principle (from Point 1): “Leaders, we're called to be more than overseers, but examples of true belief, real practice, and full allegiance to God.” SLIDE 6 – 3rd Principle (from Point 1): “Our decisions are significant, but God's are ultimate.” SLIDE 7 – Conclusion: “Before you decided to follow Jesus, God already decided to rescue you.” SLIDE 8 – Point 2: The Covenant of Grace … Our Part and God's Part. (vv. 16-26) SLIDE 9 – Conclusion: “The Covenant of Grace has two parts: God's and Ours. God did His part; we failed ours. But through Jesus Christ, the Greater Joshua, God stepped in our place, signed it, and then sealed it with His blood! SLIDE 10 – Sermon Uses: Two to Renew Us in God's Covenant of Grace. SLIDE 11 – Grace is Not the Relaxation of God's Law … But the Completion of It. SLIDE 12 – But Grace Also Teaches … Choose Every Day Whom You Will Serve.

Sermon Series: “Be Bold & Courageous: The Gospel According to Joshua” Sermon Text: Joshua 23:1-16 Sermon Title: “A Love You'll Never Want to Leave” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: If We Truly Understand God's Love… We Won't Run Off with Anyone Else. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: How Do We Keep Our Love Alive? Cling to God in Marriage. (vv. 1-8) SLIDE 4 – 1st Principle (from Point 1): “Love is more than a feeling; love is a commitment.” SLIDE 5 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 6 – Exodus 20:8-10 – “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.” SLIDE 7 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 8 – Romans 12:1 – “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.” SLIDE 9 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 10 – 2nd Principle (from Point 1): “We cling to God by choosing Him every day, just like we must do in a marriage.” SLIDE 11 – Deuteronomy 6:5-7 – “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” SLIDE 12 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 13 – 3rd Principle (from Point 1): “Our marriage with God will be compromised … when we mix godliness and worldliness.” SLIDE 14 – Conclusion: “To keep our love alive with God, we must cling to Him with daily regularity and worshipful exclusivity.” SLIDE 15 – Point 2: When Our Love Grows Cold … the Danger of Divorce Sets In. (vv. 9-16) SLIDE 16 – 1 John 2:15 – “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” SLIDE 17 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 18 – Principle (from Point 2): “If we continue loving the world, for a season, God will hand us over to our sinful desires for our discipline.” SLIDE 19 – Hebrews 12:7-9 – “It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline … then you are illegitimate children and not sons.” SLIDE 20 – Conclusion: “If we fall in love with the world … like a Father, God will discipline us, and like a Spouse, God will pursue us. But divorce only happens if we choose it. He won't force us to stay … but He will ask us to leave.” SLIDE 21 – Sermon Uses: Three (3) to Renew Us in God's Love. SLIDE 22 – God's Remedy for Our Wayward Hearts … is to Know His Heart. SLIDE 23 – God's Remedy for Our Wandering Eyes … is to See His Love. SLIDE 24 – But What if I'm Losing My Grip … and Not Clinging to God?

Sermon Series: “Be Bold & Courageous: The Gospel According to Joshua” Sermon Text: Joshua 13:1-14 Sermon Title: “Canaan: Its Significance for Our Inheritance” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: The Promise Made through Abraham is a Promise Kept through Joshua. Canaan is Israel's Inheritance … But Our Inheritance Goes Beyond Canaan. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: The Significance of Israel's Inheritance … The Land of Canaan. SLIDE 4 – 1st Principle (from Point 1): “Our salvation is always more than being saved from somewhere. It's also being saved to somewhere.” SLIDE 5 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 6 – 2nd Principle (from Point 1): “God keeps His promises … and time always proves it.” SLIDE 7 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 8 – Romans 5:1 – “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” SLIDE 9 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 10 – Joshua 18:1 – “Then the whole congregation of … Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.” SLIDE 11 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 12 – Picture (see attached) SLIDE 13 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 14 – 3rd Principle (from Point 1): “Our salvation is by God's sovereign grace alone, but so is our inheritance. And our inheritance varies by degree.” SLIDE 15 – Luke 19:11-17 – “[Jesus] said therefore, ‘A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come' … When he returned … the 1st came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.' And he said to him, “Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.” SLIDE 16 – 4th Principle (from Point 1): “God rewards the faithfulness of His individual children. But rewards are not earned by our works but are given by God's grace alone.” SLIDE 17 – Conclusion: “The Significance of Israel's Inheritance in Canaan is that God is revealed both as the Sovereign Savior of His Family and as a Generous Father who Gives to His Children as He Pleases.” SLIDE 18 – Point 2: The Significance of Our Inheritance … Goes Beyond Canaan. SLIDE 19 – Hebrews 11:8-16 – “By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance … By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land … For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God … If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.” SLIDE 20 – Hebrews 4:8-9 – “For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.” SLIDE 21 – Principle (from Point 2): “Don't go backwards in the story, when God is directing you forward. Therefore, don't try to make your heaven on earth now.” SLIDE 22 – Conclusion: “The Land of Canaan was a type of Heaven on Earth, but it was only the down payment of our inheritance. In Christ Jesus, soon and very soon, a New Canaan will span across the Transformed Earth.”

Sermon Series: “Be Bold & Courageous: The Gospel According to Joshua” Sermon Text: Joshua 10:1-11:23 Sermon Title: “The Church Under Siege” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: If the Devil Can't Win by Deception … He'll Plan for Intimidation. But Greater is He in the Church … Than All the Armies of Evil in the World. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Canaan's Intimidation … Their Strength is in Great Numbers. (10:1-5; 11:1-5) SLIDE 4 – 1st Principle (from Point 1): “As the sun can both harden clay and soften wax, in the same way, God's Word will harden the hearts of some and soften the hearts of others.” SLIDE 5 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 6 – 2nd Principle (from Point 1): “The Devil will squeeze us, but we can't serve two masters: the Fallen culture and the Risen Christ. We must choose to stand and fight with God.” SLIDE 7 – Conclusion: “We must first take the fight to our God, before we take the fight to our Enemy. Intercession is always the answer to Intimidation.” SLIDE 8 – Point 2: Israel's Salvation … Their Strength is in the One God. (10:6-14; 11:6-12) SLIDE 9 – Hebrews 7:25 – “Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.” SLIDE 10 – Conclusion: “The Gospel of God doesn't just lift the siege of sin but ends its intimidation in our lives. God's power of Grace has routed the power of Sin.” SLIDE 11 – Sermon Uses for Life: Three this Morning. SLIDE 12 – The Church Under Siege Faces Two Dangers: Cowardice & Capitulation. SLIDE 13 – Be Prayerful for God's Presence and Power … But Never Presumptive. SLIDE 14 – Where are You Under Siege from the Enemy?

Sermon Text: 1 John 3:1-3 Sermon Title: “Our Hope for Home” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: Our Hope for Home … Comes to Us from the Love of God. This Hope … Will Purify Our Life Now and Glorify Our Body Soon. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Our Hope for Home … Comes to Us from the Love of God. (v. 1) SLIDE 4 – John Stott (1921-2011): “The Father's love is so unearthly, so foreign to this world, that Apostle John wonders from what country it may come.” SLIDE 5 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 6 – John 10:17-18 – “For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord.” SLIDE 7 – 1st Principle (from v. 1): “This love produces real hope in us, because if God loved us that much then, He'll love us all the way home.” SLIDE 8 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 9 – John 14:1, 16-18 – “In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you … And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper … I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.” SLIDE 10 – 2nd Principle (from v. 1): “The Hope our Father foretold eternally, the Son revealed publicly, and now the Spirit implants intimately into us.” SLIDE 11 – Conclusion: “Resurrected children long to be with their Resurrected God in their Resurrected home. This resurrection hope in us springs forth from God's redeeming love to us.” SLIDE 12 – Point 2: This Hope in Us … Will Purify Our Life Now and Glorify Our Body Soon. (vv. 2-3) SLIDE 13 – Principle (from v. 3): “Hope promotes purity of life, not laxity or license to sin. Hope always produces holiness.” SLIDE 14 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 15 – Conclusion: “When we finally see Christ, who is our Hope, we will no longer image Christ partially … but image Christ exactly. And our Hope in Christ will have finally led us Home to God.” SLIDE 16 – Sermon Uses for Life: Two this Morning. SLIDE 17 – If You're an Unbeliever: Without Christ … There is No Hope. SLIDE 18 – If You're a Believer: Your Hope in Christ … Won't Disappoint!

Sermon Serie “Be Bold & Courageous: The Gospel According to Joshua” Sermon Text: Joshua 9:1-27 Sermon Title: “A Really Bad Deal” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: Both Israel and Gibeon Lose … in Their Really Bad Deal. So, We Must Trust God's Covenant … Not Make Our Own. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Israel's Bad Deal … is a Covenant of Compromise with Gibeon. (vv. 1-21) SLIDE 4 – Principle (from vv. 3-5): “Satan's most successful warfare against us is strategically subtle, gradual, and indirect.” SLIDE 5 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 6 – Deuteronomy 7:1-2 – “When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering … and clears away many nations before you … seven [Canaanite] nations more numerous and mightier than you … then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.” SLIDE 7 – Deuteronomy 20:10-11 – “When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you.” SLIDE 8 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 9 – Principle (from vv. 14-15): “A prayerless Church is a powerless Church that becomes a susceptible Church to the strategies of Satan.” SLIDE 10 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 11 – Conclusion: “Israel signed a Covenant of Compromise with Gibeon attempting to make life easier in the Promised Land. But instead, their bad deal made conquering the Promised Land that much harder.” SLIDE 12 – Point 2: Gibeon's Worse Deal … is a Covenant of Works with God. (vv. 22-27) SLIDE 13 – Principle (from vv. 22-27): “Just because the Church messes up, doesn't mean we quit on God.” SLIDE 14 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 15 – Conclusion: “God will not befriend those who come in disguise, nor bargain with sinners who offer their labor as tribute. God alone sets the terms of relationship.” SLIDE 16 – General Sermon Uses: Three to Help Us Grow in Boldness and Courage. SLIDE 17 – Rahab and Gibeon … are a Tale of Two Covenants. SLIDE 18 – By Grace, we are Never More than Servants, but Never Less than Sons. SLIDE 19 – Christ Didn't Compromise God's Covenant … But Kept It to the End.

Sermon Series: “Be Bold & Courageous: The Gospel According to Joshua” Sermon Text: Joshua 8:1-35 Sermon Title: “Don't Call It a Comeback” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Joshua 7:8-9 – “O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?” SLIDE 3 – Today's Big Idea: God's Grace Not Only Takes Us In … But Keeps Us Going. So Don't Call it a Comeback … Call it a Covenant. SLIDE 4 – Point 1: God Renews His Covenant with Israel … and They Defeat Ai. (vv. 1-29) SLIDE 5 – Principle (from vv. 1-9): “We must consult God about everything, and trust God with everything. This attitude strengths faith and brings repentance.” SLIDE 6 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 7 – 1st Principle (from vv. 10-29): “Trusting in God leads to trapping our enemies, namely, this fallen world, our flesh, and the devil.” SLIDE 8 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 9 – Genesis 9:22-26 – “And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside … When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him, he said, ‘Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.' He also said, ‘Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant.” SLIDE 10 – Psalm 105:23 – “Then Israel came to Egypt; Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.” SLIDE 11 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 12 – 2nd Principle (from vv. 10-29): “God has mercy on whomever He chooses and blesses whomever He wants. Both are by grace, not works.” SLIDE 13 – Conclusion: “When we disobey, even the smallest of sins can overtake us. But when we obey, even the greatest of sins will be trapped and killed. What a difference obedience makes.” SLIDE 14 – Point 2: Israel Renews Her Covenant with God … and They Return to their Mission. (vv. 30-35) SLIDE 15 – Romans 12:1 – “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.” SLIDE 16 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 17 – Principle (from vv. 30-35): “God's warnings are directed at God's people, not someone else.” SLIDE 18 – Conclusion: “When Israel stumbled, they didn't pick themselves up – God did. But once they're up, they take back up their covenant commitments. Real repentance avoids dangerous repeats and brings Godly renewal.” SLIDE 19 – General Sermon Uses: Three to Help Us Grow in Boldness and Courage. SLIDE 20 – Jericho Represents our Justification … Ai Represents our Sanctification. SLIDE 21 – We Must Deal with Idolatry to Advance in Ministry. SLIDE 22 – Just Like Israel … We Need to Renew Ourselves in God's Covenant.

Sermon text: Joshua 6:27, 7:1-26 Sermon title: Save yourself and others Today's Big Idea: In God's covenant community, which is the church, we rise & fall together. Therefore, watch your life & doctrine to save yourself & others. 1. The Character Of The Crisis The crisis affects everyone, it's caused by a great sin, and it intensifies as God withdraws Himself. 2. The Correction Of The Crisis God himself executes church discipline through his godly-praying leaders and a repentant church, and how lovely when it's well received by the sinner. 3. Conclusion (what should Achan have done differently?) 1 Timothy 4:16

Sermon Series: “Be Bold & Courageous: The Gospel According to Joshua” Sermon Text: Joshua 6:1-27 Sermon Title: “Joshua Didn't Fight the Battle of Jericho” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: Joshua Didn't Fight the Battle of Jericho … God Did. Therefore, both the Victory and the Spoils … Are His. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: God Gives the Victory over Jericho … Israel Walks Obediently Around Her. (vv. 1-16) SLIDE 4 – Joshua 5:13-14 – “When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand … And he said … ‘I am the commander of the army of the Lord.'” SLIDE 5 – 1st Principle (from vv. 1-16): “Our faith must grow to overcome bigger obstacles.” SLIDE 6 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 7 – 2nd Principle (from vv. 1-16): “Israel won't have to draw their swords, because God already has. Therefore, put your faith in Him and He will fight for you.” SLIDE 8 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 9 – 3rd Principle (from vv. 1-16): “God will eventually encircle our enemies. What God begins by grace through faith, He finishes by grace through faith.” SLIDE 10 – Hebrews 11:30 – “By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.” SLIDE 11 – 1 John 5:4 – “For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.” SLIDE 12 – Conclusion: “By faith alone we also must lay hold of God's sword, which is God's Word, and by doing so, we also will gain the victory.” SLIDE 13 – Point 2: God Decides the End for Jericho … Israel Exacts Judgment Upon Her. (vv. 17-27) SLIDE 14 – 1st Principle (from vv. 17-27): “The curse upon Jericho is a vivid and terrifying picture of the real nature of our sin, and shows what we all truly deserve: God's fierce, righteous, and perfect justice.” SLIDE 15 – 2nd Principle (from vv. 17-27): “The curse upon Jericho also reveals how sin, if left unchecked, is not stagnant but grows. When it reaches full maturity, it is judged.” SLIDE 16 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 17 – Leviticus 19:2 – “You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.” SLIDE 18 – 3rd Principle (from vv. 17-27): “God does not have a double-standard for sinners.” SLIDE 19 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 20 – 4th Principle (from vv. 17-27): “God does not have a double-standard to become saints.” SLIDE 21 – Exodus 33:19 – “And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.” SLIDE 22 – Conclusion: “YHWH, not Joshua, not Israel, is revealed as the brilliant commander and victorious conqueror of Jericho. Therefore, God decides its fate, exacting justice on the rebellious, and extending mercy to all who believe.” SLIDE 23 – General Sermon Uses: Four to Help Us Grow in Boldness and Courage. SLIDE 24 – The Fall of Jericho … Provides a Warning to the Unrepentant. SLIDE 25 – Our Spiritual Warfare … is Primarily About Obedience to God. SLIDE 26 – God's Ways Look Strange to the World … Worship Anyway. SLIDE 27 – God's Justice and Mercy … are Ultimately Intertwined at the Cross.

Sermon Series: “Be Bold & Courageous: The Gospel According to Joshua” Sermon Text: Joshua 5:1-15 Sermon Title: “A Rest Stop on a War Path” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: The Sacraments … are Spiritual Rest Stops on the Spiritual War Path. They Provide Rest from our Travels and Provide Fuel for our Battles. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: The Sacraments … Provide Rest from our Spiritual Travels. (vv. 1-12) SLIDE 4 – Exodus 4:24-25 – “At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him [Moses] and sought to put him to death. Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it and said, ‘Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!” SLIDE 5 – 1st Principle (from vv. 2-9): “God rewards obedience with rest and punishes disobedience with wandering.” SLIDE 6 – 2nd Principle (from vv. 2-9): “While forgiveness is painful, it's also healing. Thus, God's saving work always wounds us, but it also restores us to relationship.” SLIDE 7 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 8 – Principle (from vv. 10-12): “Israel is longer under God's wrath but a recipient of His mercy. They are no longer His enemies, but now His friends.” SLIDE 9 – Conclusion: “The sacraments give spiritual rest to sinful travelers like us, because they remind us of what God has done with our sin (He has removed it!), and what God has done with us (He has embraced us!).” SLIDE 10 – Point 2: The Sacraments … Provide Fuel for our Spiritual Battles. (vv. 13-15) SLIDE 11 – Principle (from vv. 13-15): “God doesn't always fulfill our wishes, but always fights for His people … when we trust Him.” SLIDE 12 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 13 – Conclusion: “The sacraments give strength to weak soldiers because they reveal our strong Savior … who causes our enemy to lose heart.” SLIDE 14 – Sermon Uses: Three to Grow Us in Boldness and Courage. SLIDE 15 – The Sacraments … Should be Used Well and Not Neglected. SLIDE 16 – The Sacraments Provide Assurance of Salvation … Not Salvation. SLIDE 17 – The Sacraments are our Rest Stop … That Points to our Final Destination!

Sermon Series: “Be Bold & Courageous: The Gospel According to Joshua” Sermon Text: Joshua 4:1-24 Sermon Title: “Here I Raise My Ebenezer” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – 1 Samuel 7:12 – “Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, ‘Till now the Lord has helped us.'” SLIDE 3 – Rev. John Trapp (1601-69) – “This is an ancient practice to propagate and perpetuate the memory of special mercies … that they grow not stale … and excite us to duty.” SLIDE 4 – Today's Big Idea: We Also Must Raise Our Ebenezer … for God is our Helper. For God Has Lifted Us Up … So That We Might Lift Him Up. SLIDE 5 – Point 1: The Purpose of the Ebenezer … Celebrating Inside the Promised Land. (vv. 1-19) SLIDE 6 – Principle 1 (from vv. 1-13): “Fidelity is a Prerequisite for Victory. We won't have spiritual victory … if we fail to follow intentionally.” SLIDE 7 – Principle 2 (from vv. 1-13): “Unity is a Prerequisite for Fidelity. Unity is the foundation … but divisions cause decay.” SLIDE 8 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 9 – Galatians 5:15 – “But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.” SLIDE 10 – Principle 3 (from vv. 1-13): “We can't win against the enemy if we keep inflicting friendly fire.” SLIDE 11 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 12 – Principle 1 (from vv. 14-19): “The Law can't take you into the New Creation, it can only break you. Only the Gospel can bring you in.” SLIDE 13 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 14 – Conclusion: “The raising of this Ebenezer is an enduring sermon which celebrates Israel's Obedient Participation, Joshua's Full Elevation, but most importantly, God's Covenant Salvation which led them into Canaan.” SLIDE 15 – Rev. Dale Ralph Davis (1944-Present): “The greatest enemy of faith may be forgetfulness.” SLIDE 16 – Point 2: The Meaning of the Ebenezer … Lifting Up our Promise-Keeping God. (vv. 20-24) SLIDE 17 – Sermon Use 1: We Lift God Up … by Teaching His Truth. SLIDE 18 – The Ebenezer Principle: Truth must be taught to all believers in general, but particular attention must be given to ourselves and our children. SLIDE 19 – Insert a Copy of Sermon Use #1 SLIDE 20 – Sermon Use 2: We Lift God Up … by Showing His Character. SLIDE 21 – The Ebenezer Principle: The Gospel is to be used not only by unbelievers for their salvation, but by believers for their sanctification. SLIDE 22 – Sermon Use 3: We Lift God Up … by Worshipping His Name. SLIDE 23 – The Ebenezer Principle: Our hope is not in lifeless stones, but in the living God.

Sermon Series: “Be Bold & Courageous: The Gospel According to Joshua” Sermon Text: Joshua 3:1-17 Sermon Title: “Land Me Safe on Canaan's Side” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: Because of God's Secure Presence … We Can Safely Place All our Fears and Anxieties … into His Strong Hands. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Israel Faithfully Prepares … To Cross the Jordan River. (vv. 1-13) SLIDE 4 – Principle (from vv. 1): “Part of our preparation to do God's work, is to be humbled by God to such an extent until we realize we have nothing to offer but our mess. Thus, without God, we are impotent.” SLIDE 5 – Principle (from vv. 2-5): “Idols can't love you back, but they can blind you to what is false.” SLIDE 6 – Exodus 19:10 – “The Lord said to Moses, ‘Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments.'” SLIDE 7 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 8 – Conclusion: “So, Israel (and we) must trust God for a fresh work of miraculous grace. We must learn to adapt and trust God anew. God won't pour new wine into old wineskins.” SLIDE 9 – Point 2: Israel Follows Obediently … To Land Safely on Canaan's Side. (vv. 14-17) SLIDE 10 – Principle 1: “Following God is always restricted to one way.” SLIDE 11 – Principle 2: “Following God is never conventional.” SLIDE 12 – Principle 3: “Following God always means dying to self.” SLIDE 13 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 14 – Conclusion: “What God is saying to Israel (and to us) is don't look to the left, don't look to the right, don't look down, and don't look back … but look right here … eyes on me.” SLIDE 15 – Sermon Uses: Three to Help Us Grow in Our Boldness and Courage. SLIDE 16 – What Failures, Fears, and Worries … Do You Need to Give to God? SLIDE 17 – We Must Still Expect the Miraculous Grace of God. SLIDE 18 – Will We Walk Forward Like Israel … or Sink Down Like Peter?

Sermon Series: “Be Bold & Courageous: The Gospel According to Joshua” Sermon Text: Joshua 2:1-24 Sermon Title: “Rahab and the Scandal of the Gospel” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: The Gospel is a Scandal. It Makes Notorious Sinners … into Noteworthy Saints. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Rahab's Personal Conversion … Her Entrance into Saving Relationship with God. (vv. 1-11) SLIDE 4 – Proverbs 21:1 – “The King's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.” SLIDE 5 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 6 – Conclusion: “Before the Spies arrived, Rahab had been excluded, outside God's People, beyond God's Gracious Covenant. But as she confessed boldly and obeyed courageously … Rahab entered saving relationship with God.” SLIDE 7 – 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 – “For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve … the true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven … who delivers us from the wrath to come.” SLIDE 8 – Point 2: Rahab's Full Salvation … Her Escape from Coming Judgment of Jericho. (vv. 12-21) SLIDE 9 – Genesis 38:28-30 – “When [Tamar] was in labor, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, ‘This one came out first.' But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out … his name was called Perez. Afterward his brother came out with the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.” SLIDE 10 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 11 – Exodus 12:22 – “Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.” SLIDE 12 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 13 – Romans 5:9-10 – “Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.” SLIDE 14 – Conclusion: “Like Rahab, we must be bold and courageous, not only to follow God with obedience, with to stay in Christ with perseverance, for only Jesus can rescue and protect us from the wrath to come.” SLIDE 15 – Sermon Uses: Three to Help Us Grow in Our Boldness and Courage. SLIDE 16 – Obedience Provides Four Benefits: Evidence, Assurance, Victory, and Glory. SLIDE 17 – Let's Be Quick to Obey God … Not Slow to Follow Him. SLIDE 18 – The Gospel is Still a Scandal … And Will Still Make Us Uncomfortable. SLIDE 19 – Matthew 1:2-6, 16 – “Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac … Jacob, and Jacob … Judah … and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar … and Nahshon … Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed … Jesse , and Jesse the father of David the king … and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.”

Sermon Series: “Be Bold & Courageous: The Gospel According to Joshua” Sermon Text: Joshua 1:1-18 Sermon Title: “With Every Step” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: Our Salvation Has Already Been Victoriously Won for Us by God. But We Must Battle Boldly and Courageously … With Every Step. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: The Promised Land … is God's Gracious Gift to Israel. SLIDE 4 – “Moses dies, but God's promise lives on.” – Rev. Dale Ralph Davis SLIDE 5 – Matthew 28:20 (NLT) – “And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” SLIDE 6 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 7 – Initial Conclusion: “The Promised Land is Both Given (God) and Taken (Israel). But the Land can only be taken by a unified effort of God's People.” SLIDE 8 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 9 – Final Conclusion: “The Promised Land was God's Gift to Israel, thus, part of the Gospel in the OT. It would bring Israel a physical place of rest, a political peace from warfare, and most importantly, the personal presence of God to dwell with them.” SLIDE 10 – Point 2: The Path to Securing Rest … is Our Obedience to God's Word. SLIDE 11 – Hosea 6:6 – “For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.” SLIDE 12 – Matthew 6:33 – “But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” SLIDE 13 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 14 – Conclusion: “God warns Israel, just as He did 40 years earlier on the edge of the Promised Land, that backsliders should beware. A rebellious heart which turns away from God won't reap the blessings of the Gospel, but will fall short of it.” SLIDE 15 – Sermon Uses: Three to Help Us Grow in Our Boldness and Courage. SLIDE 16 – Talk is Cheap … Obedience is Costly. SLIDE 17 – A Charge to our Leadership and our Membership. SLIDE 18 – The Path is Tough … But Every Step is in the Shadow of the Cross.

Sermon Series: “Westminster Church: Who We Are” Sermon Text: Matthew 28:16-20 Sermon Title: “A Missional Ministry: Fulfilling All of the Great Commission” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: Being a Missional Church … Means Fulfilling the Great Commission. But to Fulfill It … We Must Take Up All of It, Not Just Some of It. SLIDE 3 – Overview Statement for our Series: “Westminster is a Reformed, Presbyterian, Evangelical, and Missional Church. We are Reformed in our Theology, Presbyterian in our Polity, Evangelical as a Community, and Missional in our Ministry.” SLIDE 4 – Point 1: God's Sovereignty … is Overseeing All of the Great Commission. SLIDE 5 – Matthew 11:27 – “All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” SLIDE 6 – John 6:37, 40 – “All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out … For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” SLIDE 7 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 8 – Matthew 24:14 – “And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” SLIDE 9 – Conclusion: “King Jesus reminds us His sovereign power began this work. So, this compels us to go. But His sovereign power also completes the work. This comforts us to keep going. It's His work, before it's our work.” SLIDE 10 – Point 2: Our Responsibility … is Fulfilling All of the Great Commission. SLIDE 11 – Luke 24:44-45 – “Then he said … ‘These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.'” SLIDE 12 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 13 – Conclusion: “To faithfully fulfill the Great Commission, we must take responsibility for Personal Evangelism, Christian Discipleship, and Local/Global Missions. We must take up all of it, not just some of it.” SLIDE 14 – Sermon Uses: Six to Help Us Grow in Our Church's Identity. SLIDE 15 – Being Missional … Should Bring Urgency, But Not Anxiety. SLIDE 16 – Evangelism, Discipleship, Missions … are Ministry Compliments, Not Competitions. SLIDE 17 – Being Missional … Means We Must Be Trained to Personally Evangelize. SLIDE 18 – Being Missional … Means We Must Be Training Others as Disciplemakers. SLIDE 19 – Being Missional … Means We Must Each Discern Our Mission Field. SLIDE 20 – The Great Commission is God's Glorious Means to a More Glorious End.

Sermon Series: “Westminster Church: Who We Are” Sermon Text: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 Sermon Title: “An Evangelical Community: People of the Gospel” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: As Evangelicals, We Trust in God's Power … Not in Human Efforts, Tradition, or Strength. This Power is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. SLIDE 3 – Overview Statement for our Series: “Westminster is a Reformed, Presbyterian, Evangelical, and Missional Church. We are Reformed in our Theology, Presbyterian in our Polity, Evangelical as a Community, and Missional in our Ministry.” SLIDE 4 – Point 1: The Gospel … Creates and Transforms a Particular People for God. SLIDE 5 – Romans 7:18, 21 – “For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out … So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.” SLIDE 6 – Romans 8:1-2 – “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.” SLIDE 7 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 8 – Romans 1:21-22 – “For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools.” SLIDE 9 – Galatians 3:2-3 – “Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?” SLIDE 10 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 11 – Conclusion: “As Evangelicals, we confess that the Gospel is the explosive and exclusive Power of God to effectively create God's People and to change God's People … into the very Image of Christ.” SLIDE 12 – Point 2: The Gospel … Sets Us Apart as a Peculiar Community to the World. SLIDE 13 – Conclusion: “While God's Gospel offends many, God uses the same Gospel to win many to Himself, who see the grace of God in the Cross and in us, who are being lifted up with Christ … as trophies of God's grace!” SLIDE 14 – Sermon Uses: Four to Help Us Grow in Our Church's Identity. SLIDE 15 – As Evangelicals … We Must Preach the Gospel to Unbelievers for their Conversion. SLIDE 16 – As Evangelicals … We Must Preach the Gospel to Ourselves for our Transformation. SLIDE 17 – The Gospel is Offensive … Don't Change It or Add Insult to Injury.

Sermon Series: “Westminster Church: Who We Are” Sermon Text: Acts 15:1-11, 19-22; 16:1-5 Sermon Title: “Presbyterian Polity: The Church Governed by Elders” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: Presbyterianism Means … Elders Represent Our Church's Body … and Elders Oversee Our Church's Maturity. SLIDE 3 – Overview Statement for our Series: “Westminster is a Reformed, Presbyterian, Evangelical, and Missional Church. We are Reformed in our Theology, Presbyterian in our Polity, Evangelical as a Community, and Missional in our Ministry.” SLIDE 4 – Point 1: A Brief Exposition of our Passage: A Problem, Solution, and Conclusion. SLIDE 5 – Point 2: What is Presbyterianism? … Spiritual Elders Representing Our Spiritual Body. SLIDE 6 – Titus 1:5 – “This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you.” SLIDE 7 – Conclusion (The What): “Presbyterianism is a form of spiritual government where Elders represent a spiritual body of believers. And both Christ the King, and the Believers represented, vest appointed Elders with their authority to act as leaders who are stewards.” SLIDE 8 – Hebrews 13:17 – “Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.” SLIDE 9 – Point 3: Why Presbyterianism? … Spiritual Elders Overseeing Our Spiritual Maturity. SLIDE 10 – Titus 1:9 – “He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.” SLIDE 11 – Insert a Copy of Point #3 of Sermon SLIDE 12 – Conclusion (The Why): “Presbyterianism is not only Elders tasked with governing the Church in representative plurality … but with advancing the Church in perfecting maturity. And by promoting purity in theology and peace in unity, this kind of church is not only being perfected, but brings praise to God!” SLIDE 13 – Sermon Uses: Five to Help Us Grow in Our Church's Identity. SLIDE 14 – Healthy Church Leadership … is a Plurality, not a Personality. SLIDE 15 – We Are Presbyterian … Because Biblically it is Best. SLIDE 16 – We Are Presbyterian … Because Church Order Matters. SLIDE 17 – We Are Presbyterian … Because Church Accountability Matters. SLIDE 18 – We Are Presbyterian … Because Church Maturity Matters.

Sermon Series: “Westminster Church: Who We Are” Sermon Text: Ephesians 1:3-14 Sermon Title: “Reformed Theology: God Sovereignly Saves His Sinful People” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: The Story of the Bible is God Sovereignly Saving His Sinful People … By Electing Us in Christ, Redeeming Us in Christ, and Sealing Us in Christ. SLIDE 3 – Overview Statement for our Series: “Westminster is a Reformed, Presbyterian, Evangelical, and Missional Church. We are Reformed in our Theology, Presbyterian in our Polity, Evangelical as a Community, and Missional in our Ministry.” SLIDE 4 – Point 1: God Sovereignly Elects His People … in Christ. (vv. 3-6) SLIDE 5 – Conclusion of Act 1: “God's Will is Perfect, His Grace is Amazing, and His Love is Eternal.” SLIDE 6 – Point 2: God Sovereignly Redeems His People … in Christ. (vv. 7-10) SLIDE 7 – Galatians 4:4-5 – “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.” SLIDE 8 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 9 – Conclusion of Act 2: “God's Plan is Perfect, God's Grace is Amazing, and His Love is not only Eternal, but is Sacrificial.” SLIDE 10 – Point 3: God Sovereignly Seals His People … in Christ. (vv. 11-14) SLIDE 11 – Acts 1:8 – “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses … to the end of the earth.” SLIDE 12 – Insert a Copy of Point #3 of Sermon SLIDE 13 – Romans 8:29 – “For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.” SLIDE 14 – Insert a Copy of Point #3 of Sermon SLIDE 15 – Conclusion of Act 3: “If any part of God's Three-Act Play, unified as One Story in Christ, was left to us – it would fail.” SLIDE 16 – Sermon Uses: Five to Help Us Grow in Our Church's Identity. SLIDE 17 – Accepting Reformed Theology is Challenging. SLIDE 18 – Believing Reformed Theology is Comforting. SLIDE 19 – Reformed Theology … Will Unlock the Bible for You. SLIDE 20 – Reformed Theology … Won't Make You a Better Person. SLIDE 21 – Reformed Theology … Will Help You See the Person of Christ Better.

Sermon Series: Stand Alone Sermons Sermon Text: John 20:19-23 Sermon Title: “For God So Loved the World … That He Gave His Only Church” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: God Trains Us by Grace … to Take Grace to the World. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: God's Grace … Recovers Us from Our Hiding. (vv. 19-20) SLIDE 4 – John Owen (1616-83): “Hast thou not often been ready to conclude thyself, that it was utterly impossible that God should bear any longer with You; that He would cast you off, and be gracious no more; that all His forbearance was exhausted, and hell and wrath was even ready prepared for you? And yet, above all thy expectation, He hath returned with visitations of love.” SLIDE 5 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 6 – Point 2: God's Grace … Recommissions Us in His Power. (vv. 21-22) SLIDE 7 – John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son …” SLIDE 8 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 9 – Point 3: God's Grace … Reminds Us of God's Mission. (v. 23) SLIDE 10 – Three Uses of This Sermon to Take Grace to the World. SLIDE 11 – Christ has Two Hands … to Give Two Gifts to His Church. SLIDE 12 – Grace Makes Nobodies into Somebodies … with a Mission in Mind. SLIDE 13 – God's Mission Accounts for our Weakness … but Calls for our Boldness.

IN GOD'S PRESENCE IS THE FULLNESS OF JOY Genesis 1:31-2:1-3 Big Idea: True satisfaction is in God, in whose presence is the fullness of joy. Therefore, grab the privilege to especially enter his presence On the Lord's Day in public worship. The Lord's Day is Holy The Lord's Day proves that we're God's image The Lord's Day points to the final Sabbath in glory Hebrews 4:9&10

Text: Matthew 16:28 - 17:9 Title: Light on the Mountain 1. The transfiguration of Jesus summarizes… the beginning, middle, and end of history. 2. The transfiguration of Jesus reveals… heaven on earth.

Sermon Series: “The Incarnation: God's Unwavering Commitment to His World” Sermon Text: Luke 1:67-70, 78-79 Sermon Title: “Christ the Light in Our Darkness” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: Christ is the Light of the World … So We Might See God in Our Darkness. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Christ is The Light … In a Very Dark World. (Lk. 1:67-70, 78) SLIDE 4 – Exodus 4:31 – “And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel … seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.” SLIDE 5 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 6 – Luke 24:44-45 – “‘These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.' Then he opened their minds to understand the Scripture.” SLIDE 7 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 8 – 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 – “If our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing … the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God … 6 For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,' has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.'” SLIDE 9 – John 3:3 – “Jesus answered him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” SLIDE 10 – Colossians 1:27 – “God chose to make known … the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” SLIDE 11 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 12 – Malachi 4:2 – “But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings.” SLIDE 13 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 14 – Point 2: Christ is The Light … So We Might See God in Our Darkness. (Lk. 1:79) SLIDE 15 – Romans 8:32 – “He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?” SLIDE 16 – Conclusion: God Gives Light, So We Don't Have to Stay in Darkness. SLIDE 16 – Four Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives. SLIDE 17 – We Can Only Travel in Darkness to Light … by Faith Alone. SLIDE 18 – 2 Corinthians 5:7 – “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” SLIDE 19 – God's Path Includes Walking through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. SLIDE 20 – Psalm 23:4 – “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.” SLIDE 21 – ‘Tis the Season … to Love One Another Well. SLIDE 22 – May We Consider the Whole Path as Joy … Just Like Jesus. SLIDE 23 – Hebrews 12:1-2 – “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses … let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus … who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”

Sermon Series: “The Incarnation: God's Unwavering Commitment to His World” Sermon Text: Luke 2:1-16 Sermon Title: “Why the Incarnation?” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: In Jesus Christ … There's Good News for All God's Creation. But There's Even Better News for All God's People. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: The Incarnation is Good News … for All God's Creation. (Lk. 2:1-5, 8-10) SLIDE 4 – Colossians 1:15-17 – “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created … all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” SLIDE 5 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 6 – Matthew 3:13-17 – “Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?' But Jesus answered him, ‘Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.' … And when Jesus was baptized … he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” SLIDE 7 – Genesis 6:5-8 – “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth … So the Lord said, ‘I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.' But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.'” SLIDE 8 – 1 Peter 3:18-20 – “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God … in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared …” SLIDE 9 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 10 – Point 2: The Incarnation is Even Better News … for All God's People. (Lk. 2:6-7, 11-16) SLIDE 11 – Hebrews 10:5-7 - "Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, 'Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me'.... Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God.'" SLIDE 12 – Genesis 6:17-18 – “For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven … But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.” SLIDE 13 – Exodus 2:1-3 – “Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.” SLIDE 14 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 15 – Four Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives. SLIDE 16 – God Rescuing the Whole Creation, Doesn't Mean God Saves All People. SLIDE 17 – Enter Into the Better Ark … to Be Saved from Judgment. SLIDE 18 – Stay Inside the Better Ark … to Stay Safe from Judgment. SLIDE 19 – Angels Announced. Mary Carried. Shepherds Shared. Now it's our Turn.

Sermon Series: “The Incarnation: God's Unwavering Commitment to His World” Sermon Text: Luke 1:26-38, 46-55 Sermon Title: “Mary, Did You Know?” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: The Incarnation is a Profound Mystery. But We Know Enough … to Believe it Truly, and to Worship God Fully. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Jesus is the God-Man … Believe Truly in the Incarnation of God. (Lk. 1:26-38) SLIDE 4 – Matthew 1:21 – “You shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” SLIDE 5 – John 14:28 – “'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.” SLIDE 6 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 7 – Genesis 1:2 – “The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” SLIDE 8 – Exodus 40:35 – “And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.” SLIDE 9 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 10 – Colossians 2:9 – “For in him [Christ] the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily.” SLIDE 11 – Key Point: Therefore, Jesus Christ is the God-man who was Born in the Womb, yet Begotten from Eternity. SLIDE 12 – Further Clarification: In Jesus, Divinity and Humanity meet, greet, marry, and embrace – forever. They rest into one another, without mixing or separating. SLIDE 13 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 14 – Rev. John Trapp (1601-69): “We may never doubt God's will, but we do in some measure doubt His power.” SLIDE 15 – Point 2: Jesus is the God-Man … Worship Fully the God of the Incarnation. (Lk. 1:46-55) SLIDE 16 – Four Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives. SLIDE 17 – Mary is Never to be Worshipped … But She Should be Imitated. SLIDE 18 – Jesus is the Subject of our Faith, and the Object of our Worship. SLIDE 19 – A Relationship with God … is Not Perfect Understanding First – then Faith. SLIDE 20 – Luke 1:34 – “Mary said … ‘How will this be, since I am a virgin?'” SLIDE 21 – Hebrews 11:1, 6 – “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen … And without faith it is impossible to please him.” SLIDE 22 – A Relationship with God … is Imperfect Faith First – then Understanding. SLIDE 23 – Luke 2:48-51 – “And he [Jesus] said to them, ‘Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?” And they did not understand the saying that he spoke to them. 51 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.”

Sermon Series: “The Incarnation: God's Unwavering Commitment to His World” Sermon Text: Luke 1:5-17, 76-79 Sermon Title: “Love Means Always Saying You're Sorry” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: True Love Means True Repentance. But True Repentance Isn't our Chore … it's God's Grace! SLIDE 3 – Point 1: God's Unwavering Commitment … Sends His True Prophet. (Lk. 1:5-17) SLIDE 4 – 1 Chronicles 24:1-8 – “The divisions of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no children, so Eleazar and Ithamar became the priests … David organized them according to the appointed duties in their service … They divided them by lot, all alike, for there were sacred officers and officers of God … the eighth [lot fell] to Abijah.” SLIDE 5 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 6 – Numbers 6:1-3 – “And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes … the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink.” SLIDE 7 – Ephesians 5:18 – “Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit.” SLIDE 8 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 9 – Point 2: God's Uncompromising Communion … Requires Our True Repentance. (Lk. 1:76-79) SLIDE 10 – Romans 12:1 – “I appeal to you therefore … by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.” SLIDE 11 – Romans 2:4 – “Do you presume on the riches of his kindness … not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?” SLIDE 12 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 13 – 2 Corinthians 7:10 – “For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.” SLIDE 14 – Four Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives. SLIDE 15 – Christmas Isn't About Sentiment … It's About Our Salvation. SLIDE 16 – Our Relationship with God Comes by Subtraction, not Just Addition. SLIDE 17 – Where Do We Need to Repent … To Prepare this Advent? SLIDE 18 – John is God's Preparation … for Jesus, God's Incarnation.

Sermon Text: 1 Corinthians 12:12-20 Sermon Title: “Why Church Membership?” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: When We Have a Higher View of the Church … We Will Have a Healthier View of Church Membership. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Why Membership? It Joins Us Into the Church's True Nature. (1 Cor. 12:12-20) SLIDE 4 – Ephesians 4:15-16 – “We are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped … makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.” SLIDE 5 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 6 – 1 Corinthians 11:23-27 – “For .. on the night when he [Jesus] was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, ‘This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.' In the same way also he took the cup … saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this … in remembrance of me' … Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.” SLIDE 7 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 8 – Point 2: Why Membership? It Connects Us To the Church's Whole Mission.(Gen. 1:28; Matt. 28:19) SLIDE 9 – Genesis 1:26-28 – “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea … the birds of the heavens … the livestock and over all the earth …' So God created man in his own image … male and female he created them … And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.'” SLIDE 10 – Matthew 28:18-20 – “And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.'” SLIDE 11 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 12 – Four Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives. SLIDE 13 – Before Becoming a Church Member, You Must Become a ‘Christ Member'. SLIDE 14 – “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” SLIDE 15 – Three Godly Benefits of Church Membership: SLIDE 16 – Church Membership Provides Us … A Better Testimony to the World. SLIDE 17 – Church Membership Provides Us … A Better Identity in Jesus Christ. SLIDE 18 – Church Membership Provides Us … A Better Maturity in the Holy Spirit.

Sermon Series: The Return of the King: The Gospel and the Future Sermon Text: 2 Thessalonians 3:1-15 Sermon Title: “The Right & Wrong Way to Wait on Christ's Return” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: Waiting on Christ, Should Sanctify Us in Christ. So, We Wait Well … When We Fervently Pray and We Faithfully Work. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: We Wait for Christ Well … by Fervently Praying to God for His Church (vv. 1-5) SLIDE 4 – Gordon Fee (1934-2022) – “The word ‘finally' has been suggested … [to be] a movement toward secondary matters, it is much more likely, in light of Paul's later habits … he has saved the final word for the matter that concerns him [most].” SLIDE 5 – Ephesians 2:19-21 – “So then … you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.” SLIDE 6 – Matthew 13:1-9 – “Jesus … told them many things in parables, saying: ‘A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up … but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear.” SLIDE 7 – 1 Thessalonians 1:4-10 – “For we know, brothers … that [God] has chosen you, because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction … you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit, so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia … your faith in God has gone forth everywhere … how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God … and to wait for his Son from heaven.” SLIDE 8 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 9 – Isaiah 55:10-11 – “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” SLIDE 10 – Luke 18:2-8 – “[Jesus] said, ‘In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.' For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice …'' And the Lord said, ‘Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? … Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” SLIDE 11 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 12 – Point 2: We Wait for Christ Well … by Faithfully Working with God in His Church (vv. 6-15) SLIDE 13 – John 14:6 – “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'” SLIDE 14 – Matthew 11:28-29 – “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” SLIDE 14 – Matthew 28:19-20 – “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations … teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.” SLIDE 15 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 16 – Proverbs 14:23 – “In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.” SLIDE 17 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 18 – Four Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives. SLIDE 19 – When We Don't Wait Well on Christ … What Shows is a Wrong Mentality. SLIDE 20 – When We Don't Wait Well on Christ … What Shows is a Deficient Theology. SLIDE 21 – James 2:17 – “So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” SLIDE 22 – 1 Corinthians 15:1-2 – “Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.” SLIDE 23 – Spiritual Rest and Spiritual Idleness … Are Different Things. SLIDE 24 – When We Wait Well on Christ … What Grows is a Steadfast, Confident, Expectant Love for Jesus!

Title: In the Meantime Text: 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17 1. Give thanks for God's choice. 2. Grab hold of the truth. 3. Gain confidence for holiness.

Sermon Series: The Return of the King: The Gospel and the Future Sermon Text: 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12 Sermon Title: “It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: The Anti-Christ is Coming … So Be Watchful. But Don't Be Fearful … For The Christ is Returning. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: The Coming Anti-Christ … Lawlessness & Satan Incarnate. (vv. 3-12) SLIDE 4 – Ephesians 2:1-2 – “And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, followingthe course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.” SLIDE 5 – 1 John 3:4 – “Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.” SLIDE 6 – Matthew 24:12 – “Because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.“ SLIDE 7 – Matthew 7:21-23 – “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.” SLIDE 8 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 9 – Matthew 24:9 – “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.” SLIDE 10 – Revelation 7:9, 13-14 – “After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation … standing before the throne and before the Lamb … Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, ‘Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?' … And he said to me, ‘These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes … in the blood of the Lamb.'” SLIDE 11 – 2 Timothy 3:1, 4-5 – “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty … For people will be … lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power.” SLIDE 12 – 1 John 2:19 – “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us.” SLIDE 13 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 14 – Revelation 20:1-3 – “Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven … and he seized the dragon … who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.” SLIDE 15 – Point 2: The Returning Christ … Righteousness & God Incarnate. (vv. 6-8) SLIDE 16 – 1 Timothy 3:16 – “Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.” SLIDE 17 – Ephesians 3:3-6 – “… The mystery was made known to me by revelation … the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.” SLIDE 18 - Matthew 24:14 - And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come." SLIDE 19 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 20 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives. SLIDE 21 – For the Unbeliever … Stop Refusing His Kindness. SLIDE 22 – For the Believer … Keeping Resisting the Real Enemy. SLIDE 23 – For the Church … We Won't Escape Persecution … but We'll Be Rescued from Condemnation.

Sermon Series: The Return of the King: The Gospel and the Future Sermon Text: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 Sermon Title: “Are We There Yet?” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: False Teaching about the Future … Undermines Faithful Living in the Present. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Confusion about the 2nd Coming … Leads to Instability in our Walk. (vv. 1-2) SLIDE 4 – Revelation 21:5, 8 – “And he who was seated on the throne said, ‘Behold, I am making all things new' … But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” SLIDE 5 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 6 – John 5:25 – “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.” SLIDE 7 – Revelation 20:4-6 – “Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheadedfor the testimony of Jesus … and those who had not worshiped the beast … They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. … over such the second death has no power.” SLIDE 8 – 2 Peter 3:5, 7, 10 – “The heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God … But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment … But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar,and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.” SLIDE 9 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 10 – 1 Timothy 4:1 – “Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons.” SLIDE 11 – 1 John 4:1, 5-6 – “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world … and the world listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.” SLIDE 12 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 13 – Point 2: Clarity about the 2nd Coming … Leads to Integrity in our Lives. (v. 3) SLIDE 14 – Isaiah 61:1-2 – “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God.” SLIDE 15 – Luke 4:16-21 – “And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives … to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.” And he … sat down. And he began to say to them, ‘Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.'” SLIDE 16 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 17 – Four Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives. SLIDE 18 – Not All Christian Resources on “The End Times” are Created Equal. SLIDE 19 – Let's Keep our Heads Down, Working the Master's Fields. SLIDE 20 – But Let's Also Keep Our Eyes Up, Looking for His Return. SLIDE 21 – And Take Heart … Today is the Closest We've Ever Been!

Sermon Series: The Return of the King: The Gospel and the Future Sermon Text: 2 Thessalonians 1:5-12 Sermon Title: “Really Bad News” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: If You're Unwilling to Hear the Bad News … You'll be Unwilling to Believe the Good News. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: The Bad News … Hell is Real. (vv. 8-10a) SLIDE 4 – Proverbs 16:4 – “The Lord has prepared everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.” SLIDE 5 – Matthew 25:31-33, 41, 46 – “When the Son of Man comes in His glory … He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on His right and the goats on the left … Then He will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels!' And they will go away into eternal punishment.” SLIDE 6 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 7 – Exodus 20:4-5 – “Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth. You must not bow down to them or worship them.” SLIDE 8 – John 4:24 – “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” SLIDE 9 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 10 – 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 – “For they themselves report what kind of reception we had from you: how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God and to wait for His Son from heaven … Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.” SLIDE 11 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 12 – Point 2: The Good News … Grace is Real. (vv. 10b-12) SLIDE 13 – Ephesians 2:4-5 – “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved!” SLIDE 14 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 15 – Acts 16:14-15 – “One who heard us was a woman named Lydia … a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul. And after she was baptized, and her household as well.” SLIDE 16 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 17 – Ephesians 2:10 – “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” SLIDE 18 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 19 – Five Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives. SLIDE 20 – For the Unbeliever … Don't Suffer in Hell, Run to Safety Now. SLIDE 21 – For the Hypocrite … Don't Presume on Heaven if You're Living like Hell. SLIDE 22 – For the Moralist … Don't Depend on Religion, Depend on the Savior. SLIDE 23 – For the Believer … Continue to Get Hell Out of You, By God's Grace. SLIDE 24 – Taking the Bad News Seriously, Leads Sharing the Good News Urgently.

Sermon Series: The Return of the King: The Gospel and the Future Sermon Text: 2 Thessalonians 1:1-8 Sermon Title: “Expect Turbulence” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Philippians 1:27-29 – “Let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ … and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation … For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake.” SLIDE 3 – Today's Big Idea: God's Kingdom Has Come in Part … So Expect Growth. But God's Kingdom Hasn't Come in Full … So Expect Turbulence. SLIDE 4 – Point 1: Paul's Assessment … You're Advancing in God's Kingdom (vv. 3-4) SLIDE 5 – Heb. 5:13-14 – “Everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.” SLIDE 6 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 7 – Point 2: Paul's Admonishment … You'll be Afflicted for God's Kingdom (vv. 5-8) SLIDE 8 – Hebrews 10:35-39 – “Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised … but we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.” SLIDE 9 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 10 – Amos 5:24 – “Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” SLIDE 11 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 12 – Five Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Your Life. SLIDE 13 – In Christ's School, What's Our Church's Grade? SLIDE 14 – The Gospel is Counter-Cultural … So Persecution is Inevitable. SLIDE 15 – All Christians are Persecuted, But Not All Christians are Persecuted Equally. SLIDE 16 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) – “Jesus says each [Christian] has their own cross ready, assigned by God and measured to fit. They must all bear the suffering and rejection measured out to each of them. Everyone gets a different amount. God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while others are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case, it is the one cross.” SLIDE 17 – Better to be Persecuted for Christ Now, than Condemned by Christ Later. SLIDE 18 – D. Michael Martin – “The reminder that judgment inevitably comes to allserves as a reminder that believers must do all they can for themselves and for others to be prepared for that day … and is sufficient to encourage believers to persevere in evangelism and godly behavior.” SLIDE 19 – To be Persecuted for Christ is Not Loss … But Gain.

Sermon Series: From Generation to Generation: Being a Disciple-making Church Sermon Text: Psalm 128:1-6 Sermon Title: “The (Im)Perfect Family: Discipleship in the Home” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: God's Pathway of Discipleship … is the Blessed Way. We Should Practice this Pathway … for a Blessed Family. But What About the Imperfect Family? SLIDE 3 – Point 1: God's Pathway of Discipleship … is the Blessed Way (v. 1) SLIDE 4 – Proverbs 14:12 – “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.” SLIDE 5 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 6 – Job 1:1 – “There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.” SLIDE 7 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 8 – Genesis 6:8-9 – “But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord … Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.” SLIDE 9 – 1 John 2:3-6 – “And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says ‘I know him' but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.” SLIDE 10 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 11 – John 14:1-6 – “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? … And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said … ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?' Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way … no one comes to the Father except through me.'” SLIDE 12 – Point 2: We Should Practice this Pathway … for a Blessed Family (vv. 2-6) SLIDE 13 – James Mays (1921-2015) – “Mortals work, but it is the blessing of God that … makes the labor satisfying. Mortals marry, but the birth and growth of children is the blessing of God.” SLIDE 14 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 15 – Joshua 24:14-15 – “Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served … beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” SLIDE 16 – A Promise: “There is a Payoff to Practice.” SLIDE 17 – Joshua 24:12-13 – “It was not by your sword or by your bow. I gave you a land on which you had not labored and cities that you had not built … You eat the fruit of vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant.” SLIDE 18 – Point 3: But What About an Imperfect Family? … A Broken Family? SLIDE 19 – There is no such thing as a Perfect Family. SLIDE 20 – Insert Copy of Point #3 of Sermon SLIDE 21 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Family Discipleship SLIDE 22 – A Charge to our Men. SLIDE 23 – Fight for God's Temporal Blessings for Your Family … SLIDE 24 – But Don't Lose Sight of God's Permanent Promises to All His Children.

Sermon Series: From Generation to Generation: Being a Disciple-making Church Sermon Text: Psalm 105:1-45 Sermon Title: “Gospel-ing: The Heart of Christian Discipleship” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: The Heart of Christian Discipleship … is Gospel-ing. God Gospel-ing by Grace … and Disciples Gospel-ing in Gratitude. SLIDE 3 – Psalm 105:5-6 – “Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered, O offspring of Abraham, his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones!” SLIDE 4 – Point 1: God Gospel-ing … by His Covenant Story of Grace(vv. 7-44) SLIDE 5 – Genesis 17:17-20 – “When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, ‘To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites … Hittites … Perizzites … Amorites … Canaanites … Girgashites and … Jebusites.” SLIDE 6 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 7 – Exodus 1:5-7 – “All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt. Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation. But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.” SLIDE 8 – Deuteronomy 7:7-8 – “It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.” SLIDE 9 – Romans 11:5-6 – “But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.” SLIDE 10 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 11 – Point 2: Disciples Gospel-ing … by Our Life-Story of Gratitude (vv. 1-6, 45) SLIDE 12 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Our Discipleship this Week SLIDE 13 – Three Great Hindrances … to God's Gospel-ing of Grace to Us: SLIDE 14 – When You Love Religion More Than God. SLIDE 15 – When You Have a Bitter Spirit. SLIDE 16 – Ruth 1:20 – “She said to them, ‘Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.'” SLIDE 17 – Ephesians 4:31 – “Let all bitterness … be put away from you.” SLIDE 18 – When You Don't Heed God's Command to Grow in Grace. SLIDE 19 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45) – “Jesus says … first … let go of what binds you, give up what is separating you from God's will! Do not say, I do not have faith for that. You will not have it so long as you remain disobedient … [neither should you] say, I have faith, so I do not have to take the first step. You do not have faith … so long as you will not take that first step.” SLIDE 20 – Two Good Helps … for Our Gospel-ing in Gratitude to God: SLIDE 21 – Worship Him on Sundays. SLIDE 22 – Follow Him on Mondays through Saturdays. SLIDE 23 – One Gospel Truth: Amazing Grace Should Lead to Amazing Gratitude.

Sermon Series: The Good Law and The Good Life Sermon Text: John 13:31-35 Sermon Title: “The 11th Commandment” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – John 15:13 – “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” SLIDE 3 – Today's Big Idea: We are Not Only Called to Believe in Jesus … for our Salvation. We are Also Called to Be Like Jesus … for our Sanctification. SLIDE 4 – Point 1: Jesus' Big Announcement … I Will Be Glorified Because of My Love (vv. 31-33) SLIDE 5 – John 8:46 – “Which one of you convicts me of sin?” SLIDE 6 – Hebrews 4:15 – “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.” SLIDE 7 – Romans 8:3-4 – “For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh …” SLIDE 8 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 9 – Galatians 4:4-5 – “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son [of man], born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law …” SLIDE 10 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 11 – John 17:4 – “I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.” SLIDE 12 – Romans 3:23 – “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” SLIDE 13 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 14 – Point 2: Jesus' New Commandment … Now You Be Sanctified in My Love (vv. 34-35) SLIDE 15 – Leviticus 19:18 – “But you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.” SLIDE 16 – Six Uses of This Sermon for Living This Week SLIDE 17 – To Be Like Jesus … Means to Put God First as a True Worshipper. SLIDE 18 – To Be Like Jesus … Means to Put Others Second as a Good Neighbor. SLIDE 19 – Matthew 20:16 – “The last shall be first, and the first last.” SLIDE 20 – Matthew 23:11-12 – “The greatest among you shall be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” SLIDE 21 – To Be Like Jesus … Means to Love Our Neighbors to Him. SLIDE 22 – 1 Peter 3:15-16 – “In your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.” SLIDE 23 – To Be Like Jesus … Means to Love Your Enemies. SLIDE 24 – We are Unlovely Sinners … But We Are Not Unlovable Sinners. SLIDE 25 – Romans 5:8 – “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” SLIDE 26 – Today, We All Have the Same Need … to be More Like Jesus.

Sermon Series: The Good Law and The Good Life Sermon Text: Exodus 20:16; John 8:31-47 Sermon Title: “Truth's Victory Over Error” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: How Do We Practically Obey the 9th Commandment? By Getting God's Truth in Us … And Keeping Satan's Lies Out of Us. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Get God's Truth in You … by Making Room for Jesus' Word (vv. 31-38) SLIDE 4 – John 8:47 – “Whoever is of God hears the words of God.” SLIDE 5 – 1 John 1:5-6 – “This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.” SLIDE 6 – John 17:17 – “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.” SLIDE 7 – John 14:6 – “Jesus said … ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life.'” SLIDE 8 – John 18:37 – “Jesus answered, ‘For this purpose I was born and … have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.'” SLIDE 9 – Defining Truth: “God, Who is True … Always Speaks the Truth … through His Son, Jesus … the Word of Truth.” SLIDE 10 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 11 – Point 2: Keep Satan's Lies Out of You … by Having No Room for His Deception (vv. 39-47) SLIDE 12 – Genesis 3:1 – “Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, ‘Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden?'” SLIDE 13 – Genesis 3:4 – “The serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die.'” SLIDE 14 – Genesis 2:17 – “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” SLIDE 15 – Ezekiel 18:20 – “The soul who sins shall die.” SLIDE 16 – Romans 6:23 – “For the wages of sin is death.” SLIDE 17 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 18 – Five Uses of This Sermon for Living This Week SLIDE 19 – We Must Know Truth … Which is God's Word andGood Theology. SLIDE 20 – We Must Resist Lying … In All Its Forms. SLIDE 21 – James 3:5-6 – “So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.” SLIDE 22 – Victor Hamilton – “The tongue is an arsonist. Uncontrolled, it becomes incendiary. Unchecked, it becomes the most lethal weapon in destroying the unity of a believing community.” SLIDE 23 – Thomas Watson – “We must not only not raise a false report, but not take it up. He that raises a slander carries the Devil in his tongue; and he that receives it carries the Devil in his ear.” SLIDE 24 – We Must Speak Truth … At All Times. SLIDE 25 – Truth is Needed at All Times … But Especially at This Time.

Sermon Series: The Good Law and The Good Life Sermon Text: Exodus 20:15; Joshua 7:1-26 Sermon Title: “A Red-Handed Thief and A Red-Handed Savior” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: Stealing Isn't Just Taking … What Isn't Yours. Stealing is Also Robbing … What is Only God's. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Red-Handed Thievery … God's Property & Achan's Sin (Josh. 7:1-18) SLIDE 4 – Exodus 19:5 – “Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.” SLIDE 5 – Deuteronomy 20:16-18 – “But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, but you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites … that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices.” SLIDE 6 – Joshua 6:16-19 – “Joshua said to the people, ‘Shout, for the Lord has given you the city. And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and … her house shall live … But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest [you] make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction … But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron, are holy to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.” SLIDE 7 – “Stealing is taking what belongs to another, without their permission. So, stealing not only takes a person's property unlawfully, and violates a person's will illegally, but disrespects a person's honor inhumanly.” SLIDE 8 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 9 – Genesis 38:27-30 – “When the time of her labor came, there were twins in her womb. And … one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread … saying, ‘This one came out first.' But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out … therefore his name was called Perez. Afterward his brother came out with the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.” SLIDE 10 – Romans 3:23 – “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” SLIDE 11 – Point 2: High-Handed Robbery … God's Glory & Achan's Punishment. (Josh. 7:19-26) SLIDE 12 – Genesis 3:6 – “So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.” SLIDE 13 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 14 – Matthew 1:1-3 – “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez … by Tamar.” SLIDE 15 – Four Uses of This Sermon for Living This Week SLIDE 16 – Is There Sin in Our Camp … Keeping Us from Victory? SLIDE 17 – The 8th Command Applies Not Only to Taking from God … But Withholding from Him. SLIDE 18 – Are We About Making Our Church's Name Great … or God's Name? SLIDE 19 – Which Thief on the Cross … Are You?

Sermon Series: The Good Law and The Good Life Sermon Text: Exodus 20:14; John 4:1-18 Sermon Title: “Grace for the Sexual Sinner” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: Is There Grace … for the Sexual Sinner? And if There is … Where do we Find it? SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Grace for Sexual Sin … is Found in Living Water (Ex. 20:14; Jn. 4:7-10) SLIDE 4 – Deuteronomy 22:22 – “If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.” SLIDE 5 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 6 – Matthew 5:27-28 – “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.' But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” SLIDE 7 – Job 31:1, 9-12 – “I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin? … If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door … that would be a heinous crime … an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for that would be a fire that consumes as far as Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase.” SLIDE 8 – 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 – “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral … nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality … will inherit the kingdom of God.” SLIDE 9 – Matthew 5:29-30 – “If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away … And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.” SLIDE 10 – John 3:3 – “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” SLIDE 11 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 12 – Point 2: Grace for the Sexual Sinner … is Found at the Well of Life (Jn. 4:11-18) SLIDE 13 – Zechariah 14:8 – “On that day [the Day of the Lord] living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter.” SLIDE 14 – Jeremiah 2:13 – “My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.” SLIDE 15 – Five Uses of This Sermon for Living This Week SLIDE 16 – The Living Water is Free … But You Must Ask For It. SLIDE 17 – What If I Want to Drink … But Struggle With Sexual Shame? SLIDE 18 – For Those Drowning in Sexual Sin … Let Jesus Draw You Out. SLIDE 19 – Don't Pursue Sexual Purity … Pursue Christ, Who is Pure. SLIDE 20 – Jesus is Still Drawing Water … For Both Sinners and Saints.

Sermon Series: The Good Law and The Good Life Sermon Text: Exodus 20:13; Matthew 5:21-26 Sermon Title: “Killing Murder with Love” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: First-Degree Murder Begins in the Heart … with Sinful Anger. So, We Must Kill Murder … with Godly Love. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: First-Degree Murder Begins in the Heart … with Sinful Anger (Ex. 20:13; Matt. 5:21-22) SLIDE 4 – Romans 7:14 – “We know that the law is spiritual.” SLIDE 5 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 6 – James 4:1-2 – “What causes quarrels and … fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel.” SLIDE 7 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 8 – James 1:13-15 – “Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil … But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.” SLIDE 9 – John 8:39-44 – “They answered him, ‘Abraham is our father.' Jesus said to them, ‘If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, but now you seek to kill me … You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning … when he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.'” SLIDE 10 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 11 – 1 John 3:15 – “Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.” SLIDE 12 – John Owen (1616-83) – “Be killing sin … before it kills you.” SLIDE 13 – Point 2: We Must Kill Murder … with Godly Love (Matt. 5:23-26) SLIDE 14 – Romans 5:3-5 – “Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” SLIDE 15 – Ephesians 4:32 – “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” SLIDE 16 – Seven Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives SLIDE 17 – If We Reduce the Law to External Actions … We Will Become Pharisees. SLIDE 18 – Both Anger & Murder Deserve Punishment … But Have Different Consequences. SLIDE 19 – Righteous Anger is Proper … but Must be Handled Properly. SLIDE 20 – In the Process of Reconciling Love, Don't Skip Necessary Steps. SLIDE 21 – Do You Need to Reconcile with Someone? SLIDE 22 – Craig Blomberg (1955-Present) – “It is particularly bad for Christians to get angry at one another who have themselves been spared God's wrath.” SLIDE 23 – Sometimes Reconciliation Isn't Achievable … But Forgiveness is Commanded. SLIDE 24 – But What if I'm Angry … with God?

Sermon Series: The Good Law and The Good Life Sermon Text: Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16 Sermon Title: “Neighborly Love Begins in the Family” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: Christianity is Not Only a Love for God … But a Love for Neighbor. And Neighborly Love … Begins in the Family. SLIDE 3 – Matthew 22:36-40 – “‘Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?' And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and firstcommandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.'” SLIDE 4 – James Durham (1622-58) – “It was a great mistake of the Pharisees that they placed the main part of religion in the external performance … of the first part of the Law; whereas the Lord Jesus … purposely puts these together … and what God has joined together, let no man pull apart.” SLIDE 5 – Victor Hamilton (1941-Present) – “What the reader of the Bible might have expected is ‘Obey your father and mother.' It is, however, easier to obey than to honor. One can hate but obey. One cannot both hate and honor.” SLIDE 6 – Point 1: Our Duty to Honor in the Family … DemonstratesNeighborly Love (20:12a) SLIDE 7 – Genesis 1:28 – “And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.'” SLIDE 8 – Proverbs 22:6 – “Train up a child in the way he should go;even when he is old he will not depart from it” SLIDE 9 – Ephesians 6:4 – “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” SLIDE 10 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 11 – Point 2: God's Blessing for Honor in the Family … Results from Neighborly Love (20:12b) SLIDE 12 – Five Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives SLIDE 13 – The 5th Command Represents God's Pattern of Authority and Care on Earth. SLIDE 14 – Parents, are we Training Up? … Children, are we Growing Up? SLIDE 15 – John Frame (1939-Present) – “God wants to spread His kingdom, even today, not only through mission work, but throughchildbearing and nurture. He wants to raise up godly families to glorify Him.” SLIDE 16 – Ultimately, God Calls Us to Take Care of Our Own … SLIDE 17 – 1 Timothy 5:8 – “But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” SLIDE 18 – Sovereignly, God Always Takes Care of His Own. SLIDE 19 – Neighborly Love Begins in the Family … But Doesn't End There.

Sermon Series: The Officers of the Church Sermon Text: Titus 1:5-9 Sermon Title: “Christ's Elders: Following the Leader” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: Christ's Elders are Leaders … Leaders Who Follow the Leader. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: The Elder Follows … by Ordering our Master's House (vv. 5, 7) SLIDE 4 – Kenneth Barker (1931-) – “The switch from ‘Elder' to ‘Overseer' shows that these two terms are interchangeable. Yet … these words have a different connotation. ‘Elder' implies maturity and dignity in the man, while ‘overseer' indicates his work in God's flock.'” SLIDE 5 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 6 – Point 2: The Elder Follows … by Demonstrating our Master's Character (vv. 6-8) SLIDE 7 – John 14:15 (NIV) – “If you love me, keep my commands.” SLIDE 8 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 9 – Thomas Watson (1620-1686) – “What is the right manner of a Christian's growth? It is to grow less in one's own eyes … The sight of corruption and ignorance makes a Christian grow into a dislike of himself; he vanishes in his own eyes … It is good to grow out of conceit with oneself.” SLIDE 10 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon SLIDE 11 – Acts 14:13 – “When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished, and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.” SLIDE 12 – Point 3: The Elder Follows … by Making Disciples of our Master (v. 9) SLIDE 13 – 2 Timothy 2:2 – “And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.” SLIDE 14 – 2 Timothy 3:16 – “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.” SLIDE 15 – Jude 3 – “Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's holy people.” SLIDE 16 – Six Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives SLIDE 17 – God's Good Plan Establishes Elders to Rule His Church. SLIDE 18 – Elders are to be Lovers of Good and Leaders of Love. SLIDE 19 – Elders Must be Able to Teach and Aspire to Grow as Teachers. SLIDE 20 – Carefully Discern Who We Give Spiritual Citations of Honor To. SLIDE 21 – It is Good to Allow Imperfect Elders to Lead You … SLIDE 22 – … Because it Shows You Trust the Perfect Elder is Lord Over You.

Sermon Series: The Officers of the Church Sermon Text: Acts 6:1-7 Sermon Title: “The Deacon: The Humble Hands & Feet of Christ” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Today's Big Idea: The Deacon is a Servant of the Church … Helping Care for Us. The Deacon is an Example for the Church … Helping Us Serve Others. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: The Deacon is a Servant of the Church … Helping Care for Us. (vv. 1-4) SLIDE 4 – 1 Timothy 3:8-13 – “Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain. They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless. Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things. Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well. For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.” SLIDE 5 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon SLIDE 6 – Point 2: The Deacon is an Example for the Church … Helping Us Serve Others. (vv. 5-7) SLIDE 7 – 1 Peter 2:9 – “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” SLIDE 8 – Six Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives SLIDE 9 – Thank our Current Deacons for their Sacrificial Service. SLIDE 10 – The Calling of the Deacon is Low in the Eyes of the World. SLIDE 11 – But the Calling of the Deacon is High in the Sight of Heaven. SLIDE 12 – The Offices of Deacon and Elder Must Avoid Rivalry. SLIDE 13 – Having Deacons Doesn't Excuse Us from Serving One Another. SLIDE 14 – Our Salvation in Christ Also Makes us Servants to the World.

Passage Mark 5:1-20 Sermon Title Tell Them How Much the Lord Has Done For You Our Motivation for Evangelism... Our Message in Evangelism... Our Method of Evangelism...

Text: Exodus 20:7 Title: Hallowed Be Your Name 1. God's name is heavy. Therefore, it must be hallowed and heralded. 2. God's name must not be marginalized, misrepresented, or manipulated.

Sermon Series: The Good Law and The Good Life Sermon Text: Exodus 20:8-11 Sermon Title: “The Sabbath: The Christian's Holiday” Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide SLIDE 2 – Picture 1 (Attachment 1 – Old Fashioned Ice Cream Machine) SLIDE 3 – Picture 2 (Attachment 2 - Fireworks) SLIDE 4 – Today's Big Idea: The Sabbath Holiday … Celebrates God's Creation and Redemption of Israel. The Sabbath Holiday … Anticipates God's New Creation through Christ. SLIDE 5 – Point 1: The Sabbath Holiday … Celebrates God's Creation & Redemption of Israel. SLIDE 6 – Genesis 2:1-3 – “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.” SLIDE 7 – Exodus 4:22-23 – “Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son, and I say to you, ‘Let my son go that he may serve me.' If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.''” SLIDE 8 – Exodus 20:2 – “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.” SLIDE 9 – “When God delivered Israel from Egypt, He became their Redeemer.” – Herman Bavinck (1854-1921) SLIDE 10 – Exodus 2:23-25 – “During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.” SLIDE 11 – Insert a Copy of Sermon Point #1 Slide SLIDE 12 – Psalm 127:1-2 – “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city,the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.” SLIDE 13 – Psalm 23:1-2 – “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.He makes me lie down in green pastures.” SLIDE 14 – Insert a Copy of Sermon Point #1 Slide SLIDE 15 – Isaiah 58:13-14 – “If you turn … from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight … if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth …” SLIDE 16 – Point 2: The Sabbath Holiday … Anticipates God's New Creation through Christ. SLIDE 17 – Psalm 95:7-11 – “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts … as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, when your fathers put me to the test … though they had seen my work. For forty years I loathed that generation and said, ‘They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.' Therefore I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.” SLIDE 18 – Hebrews 4:8 – “For if Joshua had given them rest [the Promised Land of Canaan], God would not have spoken of another day later on.” SLIDE 19 – Psalm 118:22-24 – “The stone that the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day that the Lord has made;let us rejoice and be glad in it.” SLIDE 20 – Four Uses of This Sermon for “The Good Life” SLIDE 21 – Observing the Sabbath … Won't Get You to Heaven. SLIDE 22 – But Observing the Sabbath … Will Help You Live Heavenly. SLIDE 23 – Sabbath Breaking was Sinful in Moses' Day and Sabbath Breaking is Sinful in Ours. SLIDE 24 – Every Sunday Anticipates … the Eternal Sunday that Awaits!