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Like Jeremiah, Jesus is warning the people of Judea about divorce. In the time of Christ, this is an exceptionally charged issue due both to the controversy between Herod and John the Baptist and to the different schools of thought among the Jewish leaders. Jesus is not content to merely answer the question as asked, but takes the opportunity to go back to the Bible, back to God's original plan at...

Forgiveness is "A commitment by the offended to pardon graciously the repentant from moral liability, and to be reconciled to that person." When we are reminded of the overwhelming, impossible, and infinite debt that God has pardoned for us, the only fitting response is for us to stand ready to forgive others and be reconciled to them when they repent of their sins against us. Even if they don't c...

Christ has been preaching about His concern for the little ones in Matthew 18. He has just told us how the Shepherd is so concerned for one straying sheep that He will leave the ninety-nine to go pursue it. That is what church discipline is – the Shepherd's heart to correct and restore the straying one. God's way of achieving restoration runs contrary to the sentimental and therapeutic sensibiliti...

In this passage , Paul uses an analogy between Adam and Christ but it is an analogy of contrast. The only parallel is both men were federal heads, or representatives for the human race. In this, Adam was a type of Christ. Adam failed in his obedience, leaving his posterity under the curse of death. Thankfully , Christ broke the curse of death when he fulfilled complete obedience including his shed...

Good Friday Service

We've been reminded today that we are all little ones in God's pasture. We are all there by grace and not by merit. There is no room for pride or vanity among the people of God, as even the angels and their mission remind us. The sheep may struggle and go astray, which is why shepherds are given to pursue and bring back. Part of their work involves temporarily leaving the ninety nine to pursue the...

Christ has forced us to face the woe of a fallen world, weighed down by the curse of sin. He pronounces woe not just to the world generally, but to each individual who refuses to fight temptation. We are better off having eyes, hands, and feet cut off than being thrown into the eternal fire of hell. The old covenant cutting ceremonies pointed God's people to this reality, and the new covenant fulf...

Missionary updates from Gerald & Bev Huebner, working with camp ministry in the Ukraine, and Jeremy & Jacqui Warne, church planting in Italy.

The kingdom of God is here already, but not yet fully. Christ has given more instruction on how His kingdom is to be made increasingly visible in the lives of His people. In His kingdom, the way to dominion is through suffering, the way up is down, and the way to greatness is through humility. We must become like children to live in this kingdom – trusting, dependant, filled with awe and wonder, t...

The gospel writers were inspired to reveal to us the Son of Man that was prophesied in Daniel 7. This morning's passage is a reminder that while He took on flesh and became a man, He retained His divinity and supremacy over all things. No earthly power has authority over Him. Yet, for the sake of the coming kingdom, He was slow to cause unnecessary stumbling blocks as neither should we. Most impor...

Matt was a guest on Riley Toews's "Ask a Pastor" podcast to discuss the abiding validity of God's law. Originally aired January 17, 2023.

Matt was a guest on Riley Toews's "Ask a Pastor" podcast to discuss education and the classical Christian option.

In the story of the demon-possessed boy, we see the results of the fall coming into contact with the ministry of Christ's disciples. This is an early encounter in the long war for the cosmos. This war continues today, and so we can no doubt relate to the experience of these men as they encountered failure. Our faith is likewise too weak, too distracted, too misguided, too subject to doubts and to...

Peter, James, and John receive the honour of being eyewitnesses to one of the most glorious events in human history. Together, with Moses and Elijah, they have the profound and long anticipated blessing of seeing God the Son as He truly is, with unveiled faces, in all His refulgent glory. Towards the end of his life, Peter looks back to this day and tells us that what we have now is even better th...

"But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one....

Baptism is a symbol. It isn't magic. It's not superstitious. But it is real. It is a potent sign and seal in which God truly ministers to us. In baptism, we have a physical reminder of God's promises that death is followed by resurrection, that repentance is completed with faith, and that the old man is replaced by the new man. In our baptism, we aren't so much giving something to God as we are re...