Here’s my outline for the sermon I preached on Romans 8:28 at Cross of Christ Fellowship in Naperville. You can listen to the audio here. Rom 8:28 “All Things for Good”INTRO: How does a Christian carry on when life gets difficult? When you lose your job unexpectedly? When you get cancer? When marriage is far […]
Here’s my note from my sermon on Romans 8:26-27 “Help in our Weakness” preached at Cross of Christ Fellowship in Naperville. You can listen to the audio here. Romans 8:26-27 “HELP in our Weakness” Intro: Jesus describes being a Christian as “taking up our cross and following him.” It is HARD. -Pressures from outside: cultural, […]
From JI Packer’s book “Weakness is the Way” (pages 53-54) “When the world tells us, as it does, that everyone has a right to a life that is easy, comfortable, and relatively pain-free, a life that enables us to discover, display and deploy all the strengths that are latent within us, the world twists the […]
Here’s the sermon notes for “Waiting in Hope” preached at Cross of Christ Fellowship in Naperville. You can listen to it here. Rom 8:18-25 “Waiting in Hope” INTRO: Story of waiting 9 months for our visa.-All of us go through seasons or times or waiting. -You are probably waiting for something in your life right […]
3 Myths Refuted (some thoughts from today’s sermon passage in Romans 8:18-25) 1. If I am a Christian I won’t have to suffer. FALSE. Actually, you will suffer in this life (Rom 8:18), but what is coming after this life makes it all worth. Our suffering is not worthy of comparing with what is coming, […]
The Bible teaches that it is possible to know what will happen to humans after physical death. This is not a knowledge that can be learned through human reasoning or scientific inquiry or even through mere experience (our experience or the experience of others). Our knowledge about the afterlife of humans is a knowledge given […]
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A GLORIOUS TRANSFER
Here’s my sermon notes for Romans 8:5-11, preached at Cross of Christ Fellowship in Naperville. You can hear the audio here. Romans 8:5-11 “A Glorious Transfer”Intro: Imagine a poor woman, saddled with debt and difficulties, marries a prince. What happens? (I got the idea for this from Glen Scrivener and my wife also suggested the […]
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A GLORIOUS DELIVERANCE
In Romans 8:5-11 Paul is giving Christians ANOTHER REASON to be assured of their salvation and glad in God. He’s already given us some reason for this earlier in Romans 8. We’ve seen that that because of the gospel there is NO CONDEMNATION for us (8:1)—this means there is now and forevermore no guilty verdict […]
This past week I was privileged to preach on Romans 8:2-4 at Cross of Christ Fellowship in Naperville. Here’s my outline (you can listen to it here). Romans 8:2-4 “The Freedom We REALLY Need” INTRO: Braveheart illustration: William Wallace shouting FREEDOM -Our society also values freedom (voting, speech, religion, choice, travel, pursue our dreams, follow […]
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The Task of a Preacher
The task of a Christian preacher is not to entertain people but proclaim God’s Word. God’s Word tells us far more thrilling realities than any earthly excitements or titillating stories. It tells us about the glory of God, about the grace of God, about the love of God. It leads us to marvel at our […]
