Anchor Bible Church - Sermons

From Gen. 2:7 we will consider the formation of man by God out of dust and how man became a living being, so we can know the truth about where mankind came from and see the goodness of God in placing man in a perfect place.

From Gen. 2:4-6 we will consider three characteristics of the sixth day of creation, so we can learn about God, the world right before man was created, and better praise and worship God for His goodness and kindness. Though we have only covered Gen. 1:1-2:3 so far, we have learned a great deal of critical doctrine, coming to understand why the early chapters of Genesis are foundational for the Chr...

The fourth commandment is to "keep the Sabbath day holy." Maybe you read an old preacher who speaks of the need to keep Sabbath, though they worshiped on Sunday. You know from the Old Testament that at times God punished the Israelites for not keeping the Sabbath. You are not quite sure what to think about all this. From Gen. 2:1-3, I want to point out three key facts about the day after creation-...

This morning we return to Gen. 1 and the sixth day of creation. We have learned that God created all of the land animals, cattle or domesticated animals, beasts, and crawling creatures. Having created a perfect world, God turns His attention to creating mankind in His image and likeness making man distinct from the animals, giving him both attributes, value, and function that animals do not have....

The story of God’s redeeming love is to restore to mankind God’s image which was mostly lost in the fall. We, after repenting and believing in the gospel, are being transformed from one glory to the next into the image of Christ, we become godlier, the image and likeness of God shines brighter as we display godly character.

From Gen. 1:24-25 I want to show you 3 different categories of creatures that God created of the six day, so you can better appreciate what God did, why He did it, give Him glory because of it.

God made the earth as the center stage of His creation—of man. He placed man on that center stage so that man could be blessed and give glory to his Creator. I am sure that God received pleasure from His creation, and there is no doubt that apart from man, there is a very real sense in which creation gives glory God. But the human race was created to worship their Creator. Creation is one of the t...

From Gen. 1:14-19 consider three different categories of celestial bodies created by God along with their purpose, so that we might understand the power, wisdom, and majesty of God, be blessed, and glorify God because of what He has made. We return again to Genesis 1 which tells us in summary fashion about God creating the heavens, and earth, and all they contain. He made time, the laws of physics...

From Gen. 1:9-13 I want to point out three different aspects of creation that happened on the third day so you can better understand how God brought forth the land, sea, and vegetation and see His handiwork in these things as you encounter them in the world, and so you will praise Him for what He has done and not take it for granted.

If you reject the literal meaning of the days of creation, you open the flood gates to deny every other historical and miraculous event in the Bible making the authors of Scripture and Jesus into liars by treating the Bible as a book of myths. God used every mechanism possible in the Hebrew language to let us know the days of creation are literal, consecutive, sequential, 24-hour days! Gen. 1:8 th...

This morning I to point out four features of the first day of creation from Gen. 1:2-5, so you can understand what happened, be protected from false views of origins and worship God your creator with zeal. If you wrote an email to a friend telling them what you did day by day on your vacation, what is the chance your friend would think that each of those days were hundreds of millions of years lon...

This morning I want you to consider two things related to Gen. 1:1, in order to stretch your mind around the amazing and mind-blowing implications of the first verse of the Bible, to provoke you to worship and praise God, and to know your life has meaning. What did God do before He created the heavens and earth? We might think, that because Gen. 1:1 is the first verse of the Bible, and records the...

The Bible says the living God created life. Evolution says that life came from non-life. The Bible says God is the ultimate cause of all things, but evolution says that matter is the ultimate cause of all things, even though it contradicts the scientific law of cause and effect. It is easy to prove that evolution is a faith based religion, an anti-god philosophy, clung to by those with inflammatio...

This morning we embark on an exposition of the book of Genesis. Genesis has received many blows from the hammers of critics, some who even profess to be Bible-believing Christians, but as one wise preacher said, “the Bible is an anvil that has worn out many hammers!” The God who knows all things, has existed in all times, and all dimensions, was there because He created the heavens and earth and a...

From Rom. 15:4 I want to show you four reasons why the Old Testament Scriptures are necessary for New Testament believers, then look at four different statements to help us solve the problem of finding application in the Old Testament as a New Testament Christian.

Calvin’s last words confirm he held to the reformation cry "Soli Deo Gloria," which means to the glory of God alone! The desire to give God glory was the rainbow that bent over Calvin’s life. He did not seek fame. He did not seek wealth. He lived a modest life, worked hard, died poor, and had as the goal of everything he did, "Soli Deo Gloria," which is our focus for this morning.

I want to focus your attention on Acts 4:12 which teaches us two basic truths about the reformation cry of Solus Christus – so that you understand that salvation is in Christ alone and to prompt you to check your own heart to see if you are trusting in Christ alone.

This morning we want to look at Sola Fide, justification by faith alone. I want to show you what Martin Luther discovered as a monk, one of the backbone doctrines of Protestantism. From Romans 3:28, I want to point out two important concepts related to Sola Fide, the reformation cry “by faith alone,” so that you will understand how a sinner is justified before God, and so you can examine your own...

God is the one who grants saving faith, by grace alone, Soli Gratia. Some 500 years ago God revealed to Martin Luther the Reformation cry of Sola Gratia – that salvation was by grace alone. God supplies us with all that we need to understand, repent, believe, and be saved by grace alone, so He gets all the glory! From Rom. 3:23-24 I wish to draw your attention to two universal truths about salvati...