Intro We are not those who shrink back from God and are destroyed, but those who have faith and preserve our souls. So what is faith? What does it look like? Well it’s not blind hope, i can tell you that much straight up. This si not the soppy “just gotta have faith” of a poorly written movie. This is…

Intro Every so often we run into passages that seem to be at odds with something that we read in another part of the Bible. This is one of those passages. The careful reader will have come across several places where we are very clearly told that God’s people, his chosen people, his special people, will…

Intro We have started to make our way through the hall of faith. There’s good stuff in there. But! We missed a bit from where we left off in Hebrews 10 last year. Lets go back! I knew that these two passages required some time and attention, so I put it off till I could do a halfway-decent job of teaching…

Intro What is your natural tendancy when it comes to the Chrristian life? Grace, grace grace, to the exclusion of truth and law? (Antinomian) Work, work, work your way into God’s good books? (legalist) Knowledge, understanding and theology? Jesus is my invisible boyfriend? As we go into the new year…

Intro Comforting sights? The proper response to the incarnation of the messiah is praise & celebration Mary’s Song, Elizabeth’s exaltation Zechariahs Prophesy Angel’s song Magi’s gifts & worship Today: Simeon’s Song and The coming of the messiah was long anticipated, and in God’s plan he had kept a couple…

Intro We looked at Mary’s song, and now we’re looking at the Angel’s song. The angels, Mary, Zechariiah the preist, simeon and anna, they all show us that the proper response to the incarnation of God the Son is to praise and celebration. That’s why Christimas is endorsed, whether or not Jesus was born…