Teaching (Page 76)

Teaching (Page 76)

Our Divinely-Laid Foundation

Luke 6:12-13 So, if you’re in Luke 6, I’m going to start reading there in verse 12. “In these days he,” that is, Jesus, “went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named Apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James…

Reconciling with One Another: Repentance

Selected Scriptures   I hope this series has been useful to you and helpful for you in reconciling relationships because the point of all this is to please God, to glorify God, and to reconcile with him, and then to one another. Sin continues to be a reality in this fallen world, and so we need to understand how to deal with sin, how to reconcile relationships, and how to protect the precious gift of unity that we have been…

Reconciling with One Another: Forgiveness

Selected Scriptures Even though we are Christians, we are not completely freed from the presence of sin. We wish it were so, but that day is coming when we will graduate and go to heaven, and then we will be free completely from the presence of sin in ourselves and in other people as well. We look forward to that day, and we wish we could speed it along if we could, if it were not sinful to get there…

Reconciling with One Another: Confession

Selected Scriptures What I’d like to talk about this morning is biblical reconciliation. We’ll cover that for a couple of weeks, and then we’re going to talk about what biblical repentance looks like, how we work out reconciliation and repentance in our own lives, our life with our families, our life with other Christians in the church, even with people outside of our church as well.  One of the most precious gifts from God that any church can enjoy is…

Why Angels Rejoice

Luke 2:8-14 The shepherds visit to baby Jesus, just within hours of his birth, you might turn there in your bibles, if you have your bibles with you to Luke chapter 2 verses 8-14, just to see this for yourself. That account features the announcement of this heavenly visitor, a holy angel who came to say, I bring you good news. Good news. That’s a single verb in the language there. It’s translated here in our text using four words,…