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The Goodness of Good Friday
Isaiah 53 It is my joy and ah pleasure to open the word of God with all of you this evening for our Good Friday service. And tonight I wanted to speak to something that Josh already mentioned. And there’s something that I hear this time of, of year, whether it’s a meme floating around or even Christians saying it. But every year you hear the question, why do we call this day Good Friday? Why do we call Good…
Why We Follow, Part 2
Luke 9:24-27 Let’s open our Bibles to Luke 9:23. Today we hope to finish studying this what is really a challenging, challenging call to discipleship that’s been issued by Jesus Christ. Luke 9:23,that verse says, “He said to all, ‘If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily, and follow me.’” And that call sounds as radical in our day as it did in his. It strikes our ears as a severe…
The Deliverance of Discipleship
Luke 9:23 Back on January 20th, we got an introduction to this most pivotal text, Luke 9:23. If you’re not there already, I’d ask you to turn there in your Bibles, Luke 9:23. We want to return, there, today. It’s probably fair to say that we’ve all been arrested by this text. I certainly have. In fact, I kind of feel like Peter at the Transfiguration. I just want to make some booths and camp here for a long, long…
The Scandalous Offense of the Cross
Luke 9:23 Please take your Bibles and turn them to Luke chapter 9. We come in our study of God’s Word this morning to one of the most defining and one of the most descriptive verses in the Christian faith. It really is a verse that captures in a nutshell exactly what it means to be a Christian, it’s in Luke 9, verse 23. If you’re visiting with us today, or if you’ve been visiting Grace Church, in and out,…
Why Jesus Endured the Cross
Psalm 22:21-31 We come to our time in God’s word this morning. I want to invite you to turn in your bibles to the twenty second psalm. We’re gonna finish what we started last week in psalm 22 as we considered what Jesus endured on the cross. And you’ll remember that as we looked at Psalm 22 in preparation for Passion Week, we looked back at that Psalm because Jesus had intentionally directed us there from the cross. He cried…
How Jesus Endured the Cross
Psalm 22:1-21 In anticipation of our time around the Lord’s Table, I thought we could take some time, as I mentioned, to reflect on the cross. And I’d like us to meditate on some themes that we heard in our reading this morning out of Mark’s Gospel, which portrayed the depth of Jesus’ suffering for our sins. So just by way of introduction, go ahead and turn in your Bibles back to Mark’s Gospel, chapter 14, and follow along as…