Pastor Mike exhorts the congregation to fight the good fight of faith by pursuing the eternal rather than the temporal, loving God with our all, and remembering the Christ whom we worship.

Pastor Mike preaches on how Scripture shows Jesus to be the Christian's good shepherd, and how Jesus leads his people to satisfaction, peace, and restoration -- through all things, all for his name's sake.

Pastor Mike preaches on what it means for Christians of one body to love one another in the way that Jesus has shown in his death - resurrection.

Pastor Mike preaches about the sufferings Paul endured for the sake of building up local churches - having congregations be -knit together in love-. He emphasizes how suffering for the local church can involve suffering through church division, and how congregations should biblically respond to such trials.

Pastor Mike preaches on how Jesus is supreme over creation, redemption, and his church. He then teaches how that truth should shape how we view the local church - church membership.

We see how the life of Abraham shows salvation by imputed righteousness through faith, how it's a picture of the gospel where Jesus' righteousness is imputed to believers, and how to know whether you are a child of Abraham.

We see how Paul describes the attitude, agreement, and actions-with relationship to the Law of those who are justified by faith alone.

We see in today's text that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone, all because of Jesus Christ.

Gary officiates a wedding for two members of New Covenant Church NYC, and preaches a brief wedding sermon -- focusing on how the death of Jesus - love of Jesus should shape a Christian marriage, and should lead the non-Christian to repentance - faith.

We see how Romans 3-9-20 displays the doctrine of total depravity, and ways people might be prone to forgetting the doctrine.