English-Tagalog Expositional Sermons

“The degree of our peace of mind is tied to our prayer life (Phil. 4:6-7). This not because prayer is psychologically soothing, but because we address a prayer-answering God, a personal God, a responding God, a sovereign God whom we can trust with the outcomes of life's confusions. And we learn, with time, that if God in this or that instance does not choose to take away the suffering, or utterly...

“‘Is he—quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion.’ ‘That you will, dearie, and no mistake,’ said Mrs Beaver. ‘If there’s anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they’re either braver than most or else just silly.’ ‘Then he isn’t safe?’ said Lucy. ‘Safe?’ said Mr Beaver; ‘don’t you hear what Mrs Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he...

“As Christians, our first response to Ps 1 is to bless the Lord Jesus, to see how he did what we fail to do, and through that to begin to imitate him in his delight in the Scriptures, meditating upon them, and thereby enjoying God’s presence.” —Jim Hamilton

“This is noble encouragement to all the saints; die they must, but rise they shall, and though in their case they shall see corruption, yet they shall rise to everlasting life. Christ's resurrection is the cause, the earnest, the guarantee, and the emblem of the rising of all his people. Let them, therefore, go to their graves as to their beds, resting their flesh among the clods as they now do up...

“When I read the Psalms of David, those faithful songs, the language of devotion which banishes the spirit of pride…. How I addressed Thee in those Psalms! How my love for Thee was kindled by them!” —Augustine

“I am saved solely and wholly because of Christ’s work, not mine. He has reserved a place in heaven for me, given freely to me by Him. I ‘never boast’—I take no credit for my standing with God—‘except in the cross’; what Christ has done is now something I ‘boast’ in. To boast is to joyously exult , and to have high confidence, in something. To know you are saved by Christ’s work alone bring a joyo...

“ By characterizing the responsibilities and problems of life as ‘burdens,’ Paul very vividly and practically teaches how Christian relates to others. You cannot help with a burden unless you come very close to the burdened person, standing virtually in their shoes, and putting your own strength under the burden so its weight is distributed on both of you, lightening the load of the other. So in t...

“When the Holy Spirit is at work in you, He’s at work in all of you, crafting you into the godly person He wants you to be. No weakness goes unaddressed. No sin pattern is off the table.” “These nine words [fruit of the Spirit] are a highway leading you in the direction of greater degrees of fruitfulness, not a cul-de-sac leading you to park the car of your sanctification. Godliness is the goal. B...

“The gospel therefore neither leads us to live a guilty life (since God has lovingly accepted us), nor an unholy life (Since the God who has accepted us is perfectly holy). To forget the first is to fall into the mistake Paul deals with in [Gal 5:1], and lose our freedom; to forget the second is to make the [Gal 5:13] error, and abuse our freedom. Both mean we lose grasp of the gospel.” — Tim Kell...

One generation of Mennonites believed the gospel and held as well that there were certain social, economic, and political entailments. The next generation assumed the gospel, but identified with the entailments. The following generation denied the gospel: the “entailments” became everything. —DA Carson

“Putting your faith in Christ means that you utterly renounce any other hope of being counted righteous before God. Do you find yourself trusting in your own good works? Faith means admitting that they are woefully insufficient, and trusting Christ alone. Do you find yourself trusting what you understand to be your good heart? Faith means acknowledging that your heart is not good at all, and trust...

“But if the gospel is true, it does not matter who you are or who you were. You may be a spiritual and moral outcast, as marginal as the single, barren woman was in those ancient days. It does not matter. You will bear fruit, the kind that lasts. The gospel says: Grace is not just for fertile Hagars, but for barren Sarahs. If Sarah can havea future, anyone can! In fact it goes deeper even that thi...

"I asked the Lord that I might grow in faith and love and every grace,Might more of his salvation know, and seek more earnestly his face,I hoped that in some favored hour at once He’d answer my requestAnd, by his love’s constraining pow’r, subdue my sins and give me rest. Instead of this, He made me feel the hidden evils of my heartAnd let the angry pow’rs of hell assault my soul in every part.‘Lo...

“A Church thus constituted ought forthwith to choose them a Pastor, Elder or Elders, and Deacons, (we reading of no other Officers, or Offices abiding in the Church) and what kind of Men they ought to be, and how qualified, is laid down by Paul to Timothy and to Titus . Moreover, they are to take special care, that both Bishops, Overseers, or Elders, as well as the Deacons, have in some competent...

Membership hardly feels meaningful when dozens or even hundreds of ‘members’ never show up. Now of course, some have good reasons for not attending church. The elderly, the sick, and those serving with the military or as missionaries are not the people I have in mind. Instead, i’m thinking of those on your membership rolls who long ago lost connection with your church. THese people should no longe...

“Granted that most of us know some individuals who are remarkable prayer warriors, is it not nevertheless true that by and large we are better at organizing than agonizing? Better at administering than interceding? Better at fellowship than fasting? Better at entertainment than worship? Better at theological articulation than spiritual adoration? Better—God help us!—at preaching than at praying?”...

“But now, God has spoken ‘in Son’—we might paraphrase, ‘in the Son revelation.’ It is not that Jesus simply mediates the revelation; he is the revelation. It is not that Jesus simply brings the word; he is himself, so to speak, the Word of God, the climactic Word. . . . [T]the author of Hebrews sees that teh climax of all the Old Testament revelation, mediated through prophets and stored in books,...

“Now the Pope, with all his bishops, his schools and whole synagogue, taught that his laws are necessary to salvation: therefore he was a teacher of weak and beggarly elements … he burdened and miserably tormented the Church with his wicked laws, defacing Christ and burying his Gospel. Therefore if thou wilt observe the laws of the Pope without offence of conscience, see to it thou keep them witho...

“The law had its uses, blessed uses. The law should be used for its own purposes, and then it is admirable, it is divine. Take it out of its own proper use, make it a master instead of being a servant, and it is something like fire, which in your grate will comfort you, but if it masters you, it burns your house and destroys you.” —Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"As Christians we need to relearn the gospel every day. We are prone to wander, as the old hymn says, and hence we may act as if a spell has been cast over us. The Christian life is a battle to rely on the gospel, and even as Christians we are inclined to look to ourselves and trust in our own achievements rather than relying solely on the cross of Christ. In our counseling and our preaching and t...

“Indeed, the gospel shocks us because it undercuts human pride. God sees nothing in us that impresses him. We must forsake all our illusions about our so-called ‘goodness’ and ‘accomplishments.’ We must put our trust in Christ crucified rather than leaning on ourselves. We see our utter poverty and find our riches in Christ. If we could be righteous before God based on our works, then Christ died...

"Paul saw the issue plainly. It was not just a question of circumcision and uncircumcision, of Gentile and Jewish customs. It was a matter of fundamental importance regarding the truth of the gospel, namely, of Christian freedom versus bondage. The Christian has been set free from the law in the sense that his acceptance before God depends entirely upon God’s grace in the death of Jesus Christ rec...

"Did God call me on account of my holy life? Or on account of my pharisaical religion? Or on account of my prayers, fasting, and works? Never. Well, then, it is certain God did not call me on account of my blasphemies, persecutions, oppressions. What prompted Him to call me? His grace alone." —Martin Luther

“In our church in Washington, I always ask our prospective members to tell me the gospel in one minute or less. . . . Here’s what I understand the good news to be: the good news is that [God] one and only God , who is holy, made us in his image to know him. But [man] we sinned and cut ourselves off from him. In his great love, [Christ] God became a man in Jesus, lived a perfect life, and died on t...

“If Jesus was resurrected, then he is the long-awaited Messiah, Christ, King, Son of God, and Prophet par excellence. And if that’s true, then we’d better pay attention to him, including his endorsement of the entire Old Testament as the Word of God. Not only that, but we have every reason to trust that he did precisely what he promised he would do—send the Holy Spirit to guide his apostles into a...