Christ Alone

8-21-16 Stand alone sermon- What is the Bible?

"If Christians have no Divine book to turn to as the warrant of their doctrine and practice, they have no solid ground for present peace or hope, and no right to claim the attention of mankind. They are building on a quicksand, and their faith is in vain. We ought to be able to say boldly, "We are what we are, and we do what we do, because we have here a book which we believe to be the "Word of God". J.C. Ryle sermon on Inspiration

8-14-16 Stand Alone Sermon - What is the Gospel?

There are some issues which the church must have uniformity around to have any unity in regards to being a Christian Church. One of those issues is how we define the gospel.

Four Quadrants for framing the gospel 1) God, 2) Man, 3) Christ, 4) Response.

8-7-16 Sunday Morning Audio - Sermon ten, final sermon, in series on the meta-narrative of Scripture. Consummation.

7-31-16 Sunday Morning Audio - Sermon nine in series on the meta-narrative of Scripture. Redemption.5 - The Church Age.

We in the church live in the time of the already and not yet.

The church is

1) Called and caught by the Gospel

2) Conformed by the Gospel

3) Comforted by the Gospel

4) Compelled by the Gospel

7-24-16 Sunday Morning Audio - Sermon eight in series on the meta-narrative of Scripture. Redemption.4 - Looking at the Promised Coming One.

All through the Old Testament we are looking, looking and looking for the coming snake crusher.  In the gospels He comes onto the scene.

7-10-16 Sunday Morning Audio - Sermon six in series on the meta-narrative of Scripture. Redemption.2 - Moses

Jesus is a better Deliverer.

Jesus is a better Passover Lamb.

7-3-16 Sunday Morning Audio - Sermon five in series on the meta-narrative of Scripture. Redemption.1- Abraham

The Bible is a book about God's pursuit of man and what He has done through the offspring to reconcile creation back to Himself. 

In Abraham we see

1) God is a God of grace.

2) God works through promise and faith in the promise.

Religion is essentially a set of rules that we must do and receive reward for doing.  Christianity comes and tells us what has already been done and what we receive as reward for the doing of another, Jesus Christ.

6-26-16 Sunday Morning Audio- Sermon four in series on the Meta-Narrative of Scripture.  Fall.2 - How the fall has affected the creature.

Outline:

Creation-Fall-Redemption-Consummation

We do not want to watch the narrative of scripture as disinterested third parties.  This has very personal implications for us today.

The problems resulting from the fall are not only horizontal (between man and nature, or man and man) but the major problems are vertical, between God and man.

From Genesis 3-6 we see

1) Dis-union from God

2) Hatred of God

3) Judgement from God

Psalm 46:1-3