Some pit God’s law against love as if they oppose one another. But the law of God is not against love, in fact without God’s law we would not know how to love rightly. The commandments of God reveal how we are to love God and others. Understanding the relationship between God’s law and love protects us from many of the popular false teachings today and equips us to love as God commands us to.

God instituted the civil government for our good and has given it the authority to carry out its responsibilities. In this sermon we will consider what God says about taxes and why it’s important to pay what we owe.

What is the role of the civil government? Where does a government’s authority come from? How should Christians respond when their government disobeys God? To help our church prepare for the election in November 2024, we considered Romans 13 and the fundamental principles that it puts before us regarding the civil government. In this second sermon on this foundational passage we will build upon the theological foundation previously laid to gain a better understanding of God’s good purposes for the civil government

**We ran into some audio issues with our Easter service and have cleared things up the best we can. We pray it still blesses those who hear the triumphant news of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Jesus’ bodily resurrection from the dead on the third day validated all that Christ’s death accomplished on Good Friday. His triumph over death confirmed that what he said was true and demonstrated his power to save all who trust in him. This Easter, we will consider the awesome wonder, the great joy, and the guaranteed hope of Christ’s resurrection.

Jesus, the Christ of God

For some, it seems very odd, even strange, that we refer to the day on which our Lord and Savior died as “Good Friday”. In one sense, it was not a good day; it was a bad, a terrible, a most horrific day. But in another sense, it was a most glorious and good day. This year, we will look at the good of Good Friday by considering a truth that Jesus’ death teaches us about our sin and a truth his death teaches us about God.

Celebrating Psalm Sunday by preaching through the account in Luke 19 helps us once again place our focus on understanding that Jesus is not only our Prophet and Priest, but also, as they proclaimed on the day He rode in on a donkey, our Blessed King!

How are we to glorify God when life is hard for us or for the people around us? What does it look like to give thanks when God blesses others? What are we to do when people wrong us? In this passage, the Apostle Paul answers such questions, further explaining how the gospel changes the way the justified live for Christ.

When God declares us justified by faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ it impacts not only where we spend eternity but how we live our lives. With these verses, the Apostle Paul explains more of how the gospel changes how the justified live for Christ. Here we are given a picture of what authentic Christianity looks like.

Paul began Romans chapter twelve by calling us to be living sacrifices that are holy and acceptable to God as an act of spiritual worship. He then exhorted us not to be conformed to this world, but to be transformed by the renewal of our minds. Now the apostle will explain how we are to do these things and what it looks like for the justified to live for Christ together.

In this week’s passage of Scripture, we reach what many consider to be the climax of the book of Romans. After laying out eleven chapters of carefully reasoned theological teaching, the apostle Paul shifts gears in chapter 12 and begins to set forth practical application. Come join us this Sunday as we begin looking into the question of how the Christian should live in light of these truths.