Christ Church (Moscow, ID)

2 Chronicles 13

The Ascension of Jesus is one of the key glories of the gospel, and it really is part of the good news. Our Conquering King is our High Priest, and He has gone ahead of us, appearing in God’s presence for us.

One of the reasons Christians are not as bold as they ought to be is because they do not know what covenant they are of. We have heard the stories of saints who have smelled of heaven; they have sizzled with the aroma of angels. And this is just what we are after. Some, not knowing the kingdom of heaven, have looked upon such saints and mistaken their boldness for pride, their freedom for madness....

We don’t often think of strict rules as comfortable. But the sound doctrine of the Gospel, rigid & inflexible with its truth that salvation is in Christ alone, and the summons to obedience to our respective duties is anything but confining. It is, in fact, a comfort. This is what we were made for, to glorify God & enjoy Him forever.

Genesis 2:18-25

The great Augustine once said that in the affairs of men, the dead are replaced by the dying. Isaac Watts memorably rendered Psalm 90 this way: “Time, like an ever-rolling stream/Bears all its sons away;/They fly forgotten, as a dream/Dies at the opening day.” “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom” (Ps. 90:12). But there is more to this wisdom than simply recogn...

We’re in the time of year where you’re likely to have attended a graduation. As parents and grandparents look on their children, the emotions in the arena likely range wildly. Pride, fear, hope, disappointment, maybe a touch of doubt. “He chose to major in Klingon?” The older generations are prone to be skeptical of the generation who is about to take their place. But in the Christian Church, we a...

As the saints gather for worship each Lord’s Day, we should think of it as the time signature of history. God set the the metronome “in the beginning” and from then on out, the week begins with God’s creative work. 

Text: Hebrews 13

Text: Gen. 2:4–18

Scripture teaches us that envy is an insidious sin. It is a destructive and soul-rotting force, and has the ability to go anywhere. It is found with the lowly and among the mighty. Envy lurks in slums and struts in kings’ palaces. We need to be far more wary of this sin than we usually are.

The Text: Hebrews 12:18–29

Text: John 3:1–21

Philippi was a Roman colony that had been planted in Macedonia, northern Greece. It was settled as a place where Roman soldiers could retire. Paul wrote this letter while imprisoned somewhere, and various places have been suggested as possible locations. The mostly likely scenario is that he wrote this letter while imprisoned at Rome (around 62 A.D.). The references Caesar’s household, not to ment...

There is faith here and the unbelieving world can feel it, they bump against unseen things. Listen to the whole sermon, 'Postmillennialism for Such a Time as This.'

If you want to see the kingdom of God pushed out to the four corners of the earth then you must come to one spot on the earth, Calvary, and offer yourself freely to Christ in faith there. Listen to the whole sermon, 'Postmillennialism for Such a Time as This.'

Text: Luke 10:25–37

It would not be surprising for someone to look around at the present state of things and ask the cheery Postmillennialist, "Oh, so you think things are getting better, do you?" Many things could be said in reply. But the chief response would be, "Yes, there are giants in the land. They are very big. Too big to miss." We are with David selecting stones by faith. We are with Esther going before the...

Listen to the full sermon: 'Cultural Revolution and the Sons of Issachar.' You may be distressed because you don’t think you are among the sons of Issachar. But nothing prevents you from reading books that the sons of Issachar write. As a starter pack, try Strange New World (Trueman), Christianity and Liberalism (Machen), Idols for Destruction (Schlossberg), Love Thy Body (Pearcey), and The God of...

Listen to the full sermon: 'Cultural Revolution and the Sons of Issachar.' Begin with your postmillennialism, then move on to the covenant, and then on to Calvinism. Get these truths, and the biblical basis for them, down into your bones. Our cause is desperate, but we will win nonetheless. Our God is a covenant-keeping God. Our God is Almighty God.

Listen to the full sermon: 'Cultural Revolution and the Sons of Issachar.' The church lockdowns and masking orders (and such) were simply a beta test, seeking to find out how soft the church was. The answer for them was “pretty soft.” And so you need to be prepared for the time when the church is ordered to meet just once a month in order to help “fight climate change.” You need to know beforehand...

Listen to the full sermon: 'Cultural Revolution and the Sons of Issachar.' Love your wife. Respect your husband. Educate your children in the Lord. Be done with porn. Sit down at your dinner table together. Confess your familial sins, especially anger and bitterness. Sing. Read stories where the bad guys are defeated.

Listen to the full sermon: 'Cultural Revolution and the Sons of Issachar.' Our culture is in the state it is in because of all the true worship rendered to false gods, and all the false worship rendered to the true God. We become like what we worship, and this is no less true of societies than it is of individuals (Ps. 115).

Text: Nehemiah 8

Text: Micah 7