Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 9:30-10:21“The bar for reaching heaven’s entry is so low that only a few will reach it.”Scott Sauls“I often see the most significant self-deception and lack of self knowledge in people and contexts that proclaim a robust doctrine of sin. And I see the most anxiety and control in people and contexts that pr…

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Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 9:14-29“It is at first unsettling to be confronted with God’s absolute sovereignty in our salvation. But ultimately this is our true security, for if there was nothing in us, but only God’s good pleasure, that brought us into grace, then there is nothing in us that can take us out of grace.”Robert Yarbroug…

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Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 9:1-13“I never wanted to follow Jesus.I never wanted to follow Jesus.I never wanted to follow Jesus.He rescued me, He rescued me.No turning back, no turning back.”Red Mountain Music“There’s a direct correlation between the accuracy of our memory and the effectiveness of our mission. If we’re not teaching p…

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Series: Latest SermonScripture: Mark 16:1-8“Anyone can be sentimental about the Nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t believe in the resurrection, you’re not a believer.”John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany“Jesus was the only one that ever raised the dead,” The Misfit continued, “and H…

Series: Latest SermonScripture: Mark 11:1-11“Now to the gate of my Jerusalem,The seething holy city of my heart,The saviour comes. But will I welcome him?Oh crowds of easy feelings make a start;They raise their hands, get caught up in the singing,And think the battle won. Too soon they’ll findThe challenge, the reversal he is bringingChanges their …

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Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 8:31-37“What matters supremely therefore is not in the last analysis the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it – the fact that he knows me. I am graven on the palms of his hands. I am never out of his mind. All knowledge of him depends on his sustained initiative in knowing me. I kno…

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Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 8:18-30“We shake with joy, we shake with grief.What a time they have, these twohoused as they are in the same body.” Mary Oliver“Wisdom teaches us that tears, at their best, pay tribute to something lost that was once cherished, and it was wise to cherish it. We lament the loss of a genuine good.” Zack Esw…

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Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 8:12-17“A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” J.C. Ryle“The spiritual world cannot be made suburban. It is always frontier, and if we would live in it, we must accept and even rejoice that it remains untamed.”H…

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Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 8:1-11“I tell myself that if I serve more, sign up for more, read my Bible more, just be more, then finally, I will be enough to be in a real relationship with God. But that’s all smoke and mirrors. We’re all fatally wanting, and though we try our best, we can’t hide it from the One who made us. And yet, w…

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Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 7:13-25“When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I loveand I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I amhonest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a rational animal; …

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Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 7:1-12“Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone …. Apart from Christ we can do nothing, so if we do nothing, we can be sure it is apart from him.”Dallas Willard“In Jesus’ d…

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Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 6:15-23“If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling around with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered to…

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Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 6:1-14“Salvation by grace, salvation by free grace, salvation not by works but according to the mercy of God is indispensable to godliness. Retain a single shred or fragment of legality with the Gospel and you take away the power of the Gospel to melt and conciliate. On the tenure of ‘do this and you will …

Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 5:12-21“If death got the upper hand through one man’s wrongdoing, can you imagine the breathtaking recovery life makes,absolute life, in those who grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant life-gift, this grand setting-everything-right,that the one man Jesus Christ provides?”Eugene Peterson, The Messag…

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Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 5:1-11“Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin?The blood of Jesus whispers peace within.Peace, perfect peace, ’mid suffering’s sharpest throes?The sympathy of Jesus breathes repose.”Edward Bickersteth“There are but two lessons for the Christian to learn: the one is, to enjoy God in everything; the …

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Series: Latest SermonScripture: 2 King 6:1-7“I sing because I’m happy,I sing because I’m free,For His eye is on the sparrow,And I know He watches me.”Civilla Martin“The gospel message says: ‘You don’t live in a mechanistic world ruled by necessity; you don’t live in a random world ruled by chance; you live in a world ruled by the God of Exodus and …

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Series: Latest SermonScripture: Psalm 16“You are like a jar of river water all shaken up. What you need is to sit still long enough that the sediment can settle and the water can become clear.”Ruth Haley Barton“‘You are what you think’ is a motto that reduces human beings to brains-on-a-stick. Ironically, such thinking-thingism assumes that the ‘he…

Series: Promise-Keeping GodScripture: Luke 2:8-14By David Speakman

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Series: Promise-Keeping GodScripture: 2 Samuel 7:1-17“Here is the great fulfillment . . . what God did when he sent his Son into the world is an absolute guarantee that he will do everything he has ever promised to do.”Martyn Lloyd-Jones“The disappointment, brokenness, suffering, and pain that characterize life in this present world are held in dyn…

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Series: Promise-Keeping GodScripture: Genesis 12:1-4“There are lots of stories in the Bible, but all the stories are telling one Big Story. The Story of how God loves his children and comes to rescue them. It takes the whole Bible to tell this Story. And at the center of the Story, there is a baby.”Sally Lloyd-Jones, The Jesus Storybook Bible“Wheth…

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Series: Promise-Keeping GodScripture: Genesis 3:1-19“‘The Son of Man,’ Jesus says, ‘comes at a time you don’t think’ (in an hour that seems like nothing to you). To be ready for that, therefore, all you have to do is wait in faith for nothing — that is, for death. And the only way of being unready is to cut short that waiting by unfaith — to dash o…

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Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 4:1-25“Probably more trouble is caused in the Christian life by an inadequate or mistaken view of this doctrine [of justification] than any other. When the child of God loses his sense of peace with God, finds his concern for others dried up, or generally finds his sense of the sheer goodness and grace of …

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Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 3:20-31“If I’m laden at allThen I’m laden with sadnessThat everyone’s heartIsn’t filled with the gladnessOf love for one another”The Hollies“[The righteousness of God] is his just justification of the unjust, his righteous way of ‘righteoussing’ theunrighteous.”John Stott“Dumbledore gulped at the goblet, d…

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Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 3:9-20“It was the kind of church where you could show your ugly heart to everybody and they just loved you harder andhanded you a beer.”Harrison Scott Key“It can seem gentler and kinder to think of human beings as basically good, our intuitions basically correct and ourmotives basically pure. But then we r…

Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 2:17-3:8“Redemption is meaningless unless there is cause for it in the actual life we live, and for the last few centuries there hasbeen operating in our culture the secular belief that there is no such cause . . . The novelist with Christian concerns willfind in modern life distortions which are repugnant…

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