Here’s the notes from my sermon on Romans 5:18-19 that I preached at Cross of Christ Fellowship. Romans 5:18-19 “The Better Adam” (Part 3)INTRO: If you go on our church’s website you will find a tab called “Not a Christian?” There you shall find a link to a video called the 3-2-1 gospel. This is […]
Here’s the outline for my sermon on Romans 5:15-17 “A Better Adam” Part 2, preached at Cross of Christ Fellowship in Naperville. You can listen to audio here. A Better Adam (Part 2): Romans 5:15-17 Intro: Who here likes receiving gifts? Think in your minds: what’s the best gift you have received this year? Or, […]
Follow your heart. You are most true to yourself when you are embracing your desires. Your feelings and emotions most accurately identify the real you. It is wrong to deny what you feel most deep inside. I think this is a fair summary of how many in our culture approach life. Feelings are king. It […]
Here’s the notes from my sermon on Romans 5:12-14, that I preached at Cross of Christ Fellowship, our church in Naperville, on 9/19/21. You can hear the sermon here. A Better Adam (Part 1): The 1st Adam and the Hope of Another (5:12-14) Intro: This week I saw something that my wife and my children […]
“I have always looked upon the great work of the ministry to live in two things: first, in making unholy men holy; and, secondly, in making them that are already holy to be more and more holy.” -Thomas Brooks (“The Crown and Glory of Christianity” p 32 [Complete Works; Vol 4])
The puritan Thomas Brooks has this word to preachers about how they ought to preach and live: Gentlemen, either preach as the minsters of Jesus Christ ought to preach–viz., plainly, spiritually, powerfully, feelingly, fervently, frequently, &c., and live as the ministers of Jesus Christ ought to live–viz., heavenly, graciously, holily, humbly, righteously, harmlessly, and exemplarily, […]
Here’s my sermon outline from Romans 5:9-11 “Saved from Future Wrath” preached at Cross of Christ Fellowship, our church in Naperville Illinois. You can find the audio here. Romans 5:9-11 “Saved from Future Wrath” Intro: Are you prepared for the wrath of God? Are you ready for the day when God will pour out His just, […]
All of us have a worldview (how we understand reality and the ultimate questions in life) and this worldview shapes how we consider the future of humanity. I am a Christian and that deeply shapes how I think about the future. On the one hand, I don’t have a cheery optimism about where humanity is […]
Machen is helpful in thinking through objections to predestination. In one of his radio addresses, found in “Things Unseen,” he tells us what predestination does NOT mean: It does not mean…that God’s choice of some men for salvation while others are passed by is due to mere chance or that there is anything arbitrary about […]
I ran across this great quote from Machen on our attitude and approach to unbelievers and regarding our apologetic conversations with them: “[W]e do not regard the people who differ from us regarding these great concerns of the soul as our enemies. On the contrary, we long to help them. Having known something of the […]
