Here’s my sermon outline from Romans 5:6-8, preached at Cross of Christ Fellowship (our church in Naperville). You can listen to the audio here. Romans 5:6-8 “God’s Love Displayed” Intro: How do we know that God loves us? What gives us the reason to believe that He loves us? When life is hard and difficulties […]
Here’s the notes from my sermon outline for Romans 5:2-5 preached at Cross of Christ Fellowship, our church in Naperville. You can listen to the sermon on this page. Romans 5:2-5 “3 Reasons to be Glad in God” Intro: There are many things in life that are wonderful, but we don’t realize how wonderful they […]
Here’s the outline for the sermon on Romans 5:1 that I preached at Cross of Christ Fellowship, our church in Naperville. You can hear the audio here. Romans 5:1 “Peace with God” C.S. Lewis once said, “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be […]
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Justice and Worldviews
Justice and Worldviews We are discussing justice this Saturday at our intellectual discussion group. We ALL long to see justice take place, to see evil punished and the right and good vindicated. We long to see the oppressed delivered and the enslaved set free. How does one explain these desires and the longing for justice? […]
Here’s the outline for my sermon on prayer as an ordinary means of grace, which I preached at Cross of Christ Fellowship, our church in Naperville. We have been spending the month of July looking together at Acts 2:42. Here is a scene from the Early Church where 3k people have come to faith in […]
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A Cure for Consumerism
Consumerism is a cancer in the American church (see Dever and Dunlop’s book). It shows itself in an incessant hunger for better programs, better preachers, and better places of worship. It is marked by a never-ending search for the “right church.” It results either in Christians never committing themselves to a healthy local church or […]
In John Frame’s Systematic Theology, he gives 3 reasons why we pray. Divine Command (God commands us to pray) Fellowship with God (through prayer we experience a closeness to God) Prayer changes things. Concerning the last point, here’s a couple helpful quotes: “God ordains prayer as a means to change history. There are things that […]
I’ve been preaching on Acts 2:42 at Cross of Christ Fellowship and we’ve been spending quite a bit of time considering the “ordinary means of grace” together. I have found J. Ryan Davidson’s book helpful. Here’s some of the quotes I especially appreciated: The need to understand and appreciate the ordinary means of grace: “Sundays, […]
Here’s the summer 2021 update for Cross of Christ Fellowship, our church in Naperville. Click here.
Here’s the sermon outline from Romans 1:18-32 “The Wrath of God” preached at Cross of Christ Fellowship (church in Naperville). Romans 1:18-32 “The Wrath of God” Intro: Of all the passages I have ever preached at Cross of Christ Fellowship, our culture would probably find this one the most offensive. It jars against our modern […]
