Results

Dear Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, Key Truth: Our baptism into Christ is a tool for orientating our lives away from the power of Death, Hell, and Satan towards Resurrection Life, Heaven, and Communion with the Living God! And it does this with water that fulfills the picture of an Ark with Noah’s…

Main: I want my students to understand what baptism is, why we do it, and how it connects us with God. What is Baptism Baptism is a practice in churches in the Bible and all over the world where Christians are dunked in water as an announcement of their faith in Jesus. Why do we do it? We follow the…

First day in big public high school - nerve wrackig all around, but perhasp the most would be the cafetriea - what’s the big question - who do I sit with? What do people think of me? Not that different - imagine first week at new job - what each supervisor thinks of me, will they give me some space,…

Dear Congregation of the Lord Jesus Christ, Richard Wurmbrand, Romanian pastor, beautiful fellowship, outlasted, even among prison guards eager to sell watches. Even in prison itself. used chains as instruments of praise. But one observation as they began their underground work. A Russian solider recently…

Dear Greg & Rhonda, Colin & Laura, Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, Why Intro: Want to get these kids a head start in life - why not baptize them into the name of NHL OHL and Minor Hockey Leage - ie $5 bill… It’s play off time - and 5 daysof the week…; Or maybe academic head start - jump start…

Dear Congregation of the Lord Jesus Christ, If you were to take your 300k plus car to Simon or Clarence, and say I think somehitng is wrong with it. It doesn’t sound right, and they came back and said no worries just top off the transmission fluid. Drive away muffled grinding sound, but feel it still…

Everyone = rule out protgnsotic claims live however I want, no moral cliam, don’t really know Christ- can’t SO DISHNOUR and SO LITTLE ACCOUNT of our adoption - even more seed has to grow = must render mutual love! vs. left the church thought themselves to be above accountability = universal law conitual…

Dear Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, Is this pandemic ever going to end? What about a last Tornado? Warfare? How about on a personal level - will my sadness ever lift, Will I ever have victory over my sin, feelings of guilt and worthiness. What I am really asking you - is the brokenness of this…

Crookedness is rotten: Once came home from a family weekend - tornado touched down by brotherinlaws place; and our sunshade gazebo - bent and strewn across the yard… bright idea to rebuid on deckreinforced by brown pressure treated.plywood shingle… what a pain everything slightly bent,..nothing squared…close…

Dear Congregation of the LORD Jesus Christ, If there is a key word in our text from God’s Word tonihgt it is ASKED! What Samuel’s name sounds like and its meaning, but it is also used by Hannah 4 times as she brings him back and makes a play on words in Hebrew. He was asked by me in prayer, but now I…

We have looked at the sacraments in genreal, but batpissm specifically as a tool God has graciously given all those who enter his church - to sign and seal, represent and to certify the promises of the gospel. In Baptism we are passive and the central action is God’s sign and signfiing what Christ has…

Belgic Confession 29

Dear Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, We are not as strong as we think we are. I wonder if that is the reason why Jesus took children put them in the centre of his circle of disciples and said unless you receive the kingdom f God like a child, can’t enter in. That dependence that trust, recognition…

Dear Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, Do you remember the point of this book, really Ezra-Nehemiah journals of two leaders. Re-building of a physical city, temple earlier, then walls; but more imoprtantly the rebuilding of a people, a community of grace, a kingdom of God. And in this chapter we…

Dear Congregation of the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is in the house? Ie. Late show - hosts of popular and ntoight we have …in the house; SNL guests announced - often a critique of Right Wing, - real political statement - I am joined with this worldview, with this lifestyle … Another phrase in my youth culture…

We now begin the first of several messages about the day we called Pentecost or Whitsunday on our church calendar. Careful exposition of the text is very important here, because to go wrong here is to go wrong for the rest of the Book of Acts. As the purpose of this extended study in Acts is to use the…