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Dave Jenkins explores four lessons Christians can learn from Charles Spurgeon: confidence in the authority and sufficiency of Scripture, devotion to Christ and the gospel, compassion for people, and perseverance through suffering. Drawing on 2 Timothy 4:2 and 1 Corinthians 2:2, this episode encourages believers to grow in biblical conviction, care for others, and remain faithful to Christ through...

Dave Jenkins explores four lessons Christians can learn from John Calvin: commitment to Scripture's authority, the importance of sound doctrine, theology that strengthens the church, and perseverance in serving Christ. Drawing on Acts 20:28 and 2 Timothy 4:2, this episode encourages believers to grow in biblical truth, faithful discipleship, and everyday obedience to God. For more episodes of Cont...

This sermon is comfort with a little kick—rich in its consolations but not feeble in its applications. It begins with God's everlasting covenant, rooted in his own unchanging being, and the promises which cannot be broken, with all the assurance of unending good to those upon whom he sets his love. Spurgeon explores the certainty and security of the covenant, never straying far from Christ's finis...

God never intended Christians to grow in isolation. Drawing from Hebrews 10:24–25, Dave Jenkins explains how biblical fellowship and loving accountability help believers persevere in faith. Learn how to cultivate honest relationships, receive correction, bear one another's burdens, and serve faithfully in the local church. Because our righteousness is found in Christ alone, we can confess sin, ask...

This sermon commemorates the 490th anniversary of William Tyndale's martyrdom, highlighting his final request for a Hebrew Bible while imprisoned as a testament to his unwavering dedication to Scripture. The central message contrasts Tyndale's active perseverance in translating the Word amidst persecution with the modern tendency to lament cultural and spiritual decline without taking personal res...

This sermon explores the central command of John 15:4-5, urging believers to abide in Christ as the essential means for spiritual growth and fruitfulness. The message clarifies that abiding is not a mystical state but a daily practice of perseverance, dependence on God's strength, and intentional discipline. It emphasizes that spiritual maturity requires enduring through challenges and maintaining...

This sermon explores Psalm 127 to demonstrate that human effort in building, watching, and working is ultimately vain unless God is the primary agent. The text contrasts the fleeting nature of earthly achievements and self-made kingdoms with the enduring reality of God's house, which is built by Christ. It highlights the biblical view of children not as burdens but as a divine heritage and spiritu...

This sermon explores the parable of the growing seed in Mark 4, emphasizing that the kingdom of God operates through the sowing of God's Word rather than human effort or immediate visible results. The preacher highlights the distinction between the sower's responsibility to cast the seed and God's sovereign power to cause growth, a process described as mysterious and automatic. Listeners are encou...

This sermon explores the spiritual struggle of waiting on God during times of intense persecution and exhaustion, using the metaphor of a wineskin in the smoke from Psalm 119. It acknowledges the reality of felt weakness, where believers may feel their souls and eyes failing due to prolonged trials and hostile accusations. The central message emphasizes that while the pain is real, believers must...

This sermon explores the profound assurance found in Romans 8, arguing that present sufferings are not worthy of comparison with the future glory revealed to believers. The message emphasizes that the Holy Spirit intercedes for the weak, helping Christians persevere in hope while they await the redemption of their bodies and the renewal of creation. It highlights the sovereignty of God through the...

This sermon explores the central theme that all significant aspects of the Christian life are accomplished through faith in Jesus Christ, rather than human ability or strength. Drawing from Hebrews 11:32-40, the message outlines three key outcomes of genuine faith: subduing the 'kingdoms' of personal challenges, enduring suffering for righteousness' sake, and persevering to the end of one's course...

This sermon examines the warning against unbelief found in Hebrews 3, using the historical example of Israel's rebellion in the wilderness to illustrate the spiritual dangers of hardening one's heart. The central message emphasizes that unbelief is characterized by a persistent attitude of complaint and a refusal to trust God's promises despite clear evidence of His faithfulness. The text highligh...

Sermon Points: 1) Warning not to forsake the Lord or His people or worship 2) God will judge those who forsake Him 3) Those who do not forsake the Lord persevere by the Lord

In Revelation 3:7-13, Christ speaks to the church in Philadelphia. This was a small, persecuted church with "little power," yet it remained faithful to His Word and refused to deny His name. This passage reminds us that Christ does not measure His church by worldly strength, influence, or size, but by faithfulness. As the Holy and True One who holds the key of David, Jesus possesses complete autho...

Who takes away the branch that bears no fruit, and was that branch ever in Him? Read "every branch in me" (John 15:2) beside "He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him" (John 6:56), and ask whether "in me" ever describes a man who never believed. Then ask what a man must do to have God take away his part out of the book of life: write a new Bible, or only decide...

How can believers have joy when suffering is real and painful? In 1Peter 1:6, Peter reminds us that Christian joy is not based on our circumstances, but on the salvation we have in Christ. Listen as we consider how our suffering is momentary, allowed by God, genuinely painful, and experienced through various kinds of trials --- and why our salvation gives us reason for joy in the midst of it all.

This sermon argues that the ultimate goal of parenting is not merely behavioral modification or obedience, but the making of disciples, a task that requires a long-term perspective rather than short-sighted control. The speaker emphasizes that parents must shift from exerting authority to exercising influence, allowing children to develop the spiritual maturity to own their faith. By identifying t...

Brothers and Sisters in Jesus Christ: Here are some things you have learned so far: You know why you were elected: God loved you and God was pleased to elect you. You know why you needed to be elected: You could not choose God. You know how you were elected: You were elected in Christ and given faith to receive into your soul what he did. You know your election is unchangeable. Today you will see...

The Holiest of All - Lesson 57 - Run the Race - Hebrews 12:1-2. "If every weight of care must be laid aside, and every rag of sin, who is sufficient for these things? How can we poor limping mortals run in such a race as this? Even the starting is beyond us: how much more must perseverance in it outreach our strength! See, my brethren, how we are driven to free grace, how we are driven to the powe...

Beloved in Jesus Christ: Jacob had escaped from Esau 20 years before, he spent that time in Mesopotamia with Laban, he got rich, and he had a family. and now he was returning home to Canaan because God told him to. God wanted him in Canaan to occupy the land, and preserve that line of promise, that line from which Christ would come. But Jacob had some issues to work out…and God had some issues to...