Sermons on Theology
Seek God’s Word in Prayer We continue to Mark this morning. If you’d like to follow along, please open to Mark 12:18–27. Before we hear the word of the Lord preached, let’s ask his blessing once more upon the reception and indeed the preaching of that word. Let’s pray together. Gracious Heavenly Father, we come…
Dive into a powerful exploration of the resurrection’s impact on every believer’s life. This sermon unpacks the profound hope found in Christ’s victory—transforming us now as heaven’s citizens and promising glorious, resurrected bodies in the future. Anchored in the reality of Christ’s triumph over death, this message stirs the heart with assurance and longing for eternity.
Opening Scripture and Prayer Take your Bibles now, if you would. I’d like to follow along and turn to the Gospel of Mark. We continue with Mark this morning, specifically Mark chapter 11, starting at verse 11. And before we hear the word read, let’s ask the Lord’s blessing upon it. Let’s pray once more:…
Take your copy of the scriptures now. In turn for our New Testament reading will be our sermon text this morning. Luke chapter 2, starting verse 21. And please, if anyone is able and it feels like they’re about to spontaneously combust, it gets kind of hard in here, hot in here, feel free to…
Take your New Testament now and turn, if you would, to the text for our sermon today, which will be from Luke chapter 2, starting at verse 8. Luke chapter 2, starting at verse 8. Once again, please, your attention, because this is the Word of God. And in the same region, there were shepherds…
Please take your copy of the scriptures. Now, if you would turn to our New Testament reading, Luke chapter 2. In chapter 2, we’ll resume our Mark study in a number of weeks, but there are times where it’s We have the collective focus on certain themes, and it’s good not to ignore those themes…
In our fallen nature, we want the crucified saviour without the cruciform life. But in our union with Christ, God has ordained that our path will be the path of his beloved son. If we are his and he is ours, our lives will pattern his life: and that pattern is suffering and then glory, the cross before the crown.
What is this leaven of the Pharisees? Christ leads his disciples through a catechism of questions to bring them to the understanding. Like the man partially healed, Peter confesses Christ, but it’s clear he only had a partial perception. Turn now to the Gospel of Mark. Gospel of Mark, chapter eight. I’m starting at verse…
Mark is impressing upon us in this passage, that the crowd is made up of two different groups of people. Those of Israel, and those who are far-away ones. In this sermon, Pastor Tony unpacks Christ’s costly compassion on the 4,000. Christ has this mixed crowd–Jew and Gentile–recline at a wilderness table together, and satisfies…
We’ll finish up the section from last week before we return to the gospel of Mark. There’s some significant things coming up in the gospel of Mark that we want to give attention to, but we’ll finish up this wonderful passage regarding the fear and the anxiety and the symptoms of those things and the…