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This Sunday we’re starting a new teaching series through the book of Hebrews! There’s always something special about the first Sunday of a new study. Gathering on that first Sunday always renews an excitement in my heart to teach God’s people. However, this weekend feels a little awkward though doesn’t it? Here we sit in a stay-home order that’s sure to last the entire month of April. I don’t like that we can’t physically gather, it’s not ideal. I’m not cut out to be a YouTube-preacher and I miss seeing your faces more than you know. All that being said, I’m no less excited to study through this season together!
Keep ReadingFeb 22
2020
Too often we allow ourselves to become convinced that our sins are just too great to be forgiven. We believe the lies that we aren't loved enough in Christ to be forgiven. We busy ourselves with vain attempts to work off our debt, or maybe at least enough of it, so that Jesus can accomplish the rest. But Jesus' final words on the cross declare that his atoning work is finished!
Feb 10
2020
It is significant that when God shifts his focus from our vertical relationship with him to our horizontal relationship with others in the Ten Commandments, he begins, here with the Fifth Commandment, with honoring the father and mother. If we are to understand Jesus' response to the lawyer in Matthew 22:34-40 as being prescriptive, then we can boil the Ten Commandments down to two fundamental principles...love God and love others. "On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets" (i.e. everything else). Therefore, as Cody pointed out, the First and Fifth Commandments serve much like headings, under which those commandments that follow fall.
Feb 3
2020
You see, the Fourth Commandment foreshadows the restoration of the peace that was to come in Christ. Sinclair Ferguson writes, "We rest in Christ from our labor of self-sufficiency, and we have access to the Father (Ephesians 2:18). As we meet with Him, He shows us Himself, His ways, His world, His purposes, His glory. And whatever was temporary about the Mosaic Sabbath must be left behind as the reality of the intimate communion of the Adamic Sabbath is again experienced in our worship of the risen Savior on the first day of the week - the Lord’s Day."
