Christ Church (Moscow, ID)

The virgin birth is God's provision of a spotless Lamb to represent a bunch of dirty lambs, so that we might be assembled together as one flock and brought home to the Father. Listen to the full sermon, 'The Virgin Birth,' here on our app.

There’s been a steady march from Darwin down to the present madness that afflicts our nation. As soon as creation, and man in particular, is no longer seen as the handiwork of Almighty God, the slow march to the hell commences. An Atheist not only shakes his fist at God, he severs the spinal cord of his own humanity. To be human is to stand in an office, to be placed in position as a contingent be...

Excuse making is as old as sin. Adam sinned and blamed Eve. Eve sinned and blamed the serpent. And so we blame our culture, the internet, our parents, our kids, our spouse, our work, our hunger, our health, our sleeplessness for our bad attitudes, our sharp words, our disobedience to Christ, our failure to grow in holiness and joy.

INTRODUCTION As we prepare to celebrate Christmas, we will spend the next four Sundays looking at four prophecies of the coming hope of Israel from an unlikely source: Balaam, the scoundrel prophet of Israel. Despite the circumstances, these are some of the greatest benedictions of Scripture describing God’s determination to bless Israel through the coming Messiah and in Him, all the nations of th...

INTRODUCTION In our denomination, all churches are required to adopt three creeds into their statement of faith. Those three are from the time of the early church, and are the Apostles Creed (2nd century), the Nicene Creed (4th century), and the Definition of Chalcedon (5th century). If all the great figures of history were little pinpricks of light, small twinkling stars, Christ arrived 2,000 yea...

INTRODUCTION Living as we do in insane times, we need to be reminded regularly of what we’re supposed to be doing. Otherwise, it is easy to get distracted by the next kamikaze clown car that pulls into town. We have said, and we will not get tired of saying, that our central duty is to worship the Lord, centrally here in corporate worship, but the point is for that gladness and thanksgiving to pou...

INTRODUCTION We understand that there is no such thing as a healthy Christian community without a large number of healthy Christian families. Just as you cannot have a good omelet without good eggs, so also it is impossible to have a cheerful town, or church, or community, when all the households are just little oases of misery. THE TEXT “Trust in the Lord, and do good; So shalt thou dwell in the...

Justice isn’t defined by the conglomerated feelings of society. The ancient lie, which continually rears its head throughout history, is that justice is a balancing act of satiating competing clans.

We are at war. But we do not wage this war with the weapons of the flesh. We wage this war with the mightier weapons of the Spirit. These are not fake weapons. They are real, and they have been conquering men and women since the advent of sin and evil in the world. What are these weapons? They are the weapons of kindness, mercy, truth, generosity, forgiveness, and above all else, the Word of God a...

INTRODUCTION Everyone knows that the Christian faith revolves around the forgiveness of sins. But because there is a gospel logic involved in it that eludes every form of carnal reasoning, we have to be careful to understand what is actually involved. What is real forgiveness? THE TEXT “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:...

THE TEXT By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. By fai...

The multiplication of local churches, and many of them, is part of God’s plan. As J.I. Packer once put it, every local congregation is “called to fulfill the role of being a microcosm of the church as a whole.” And so as you look around this morning, see the one church of Christ in this room. And when you drive home past other faithful churches in our town, and as you consider all of God’s people...

Have you trusted in Christ? Have you come to God the Father through Jesus Christ? Think about the worst thing you ever did. It's clean. It's gone. It's forgiven. It's washed. It's cleansed. It's all done. So here is the charge: deal with it.

INTRODUCTION When Paul comes to describe the fruit of the Spirit in Gal. 5:22, he uses the singular form of fruit, and then goes on to list love, joy, peace, and so on. So instead of considering this as a list of disparate fruits, like apples, oranges and bananas, perhaps we might consider the different graces listed as aspects or attributes of the one fruit of the Spirit’s presence—like redness,...

The reason we do well to celebrate such days as Reformation Day is that we’re commanded to remember to our children such deliverances of our God. We honor our earthly fathers because God our Father used them to bring about a great deliverance.

We should want to fill the world with a forest of good and faithful trees. Fully expecting that we and our institutions will all fall and rot in the process. All our pirate ships will sink, all of them. May they sink faithfully in battle. You can listen to all Grace Agenda 2021 messages here on the app.

Most of you have heard by now that the elders have determined to plant Christ Church Downtown as a new church in the coming months. This is both exciting and daunting. And so I want to give two brief exhortations related to this.

INTRODUCTION We have come to the climax of Micah’s great prophetic word. This is the note he ends on, which is a note of consolation. God chastises His people, but He does not forget His people. He disciplines His people, but He does not abandon His people. We know that regardless of what happens, God will obtain glory for Himself, and the greatest glory possible comes when He is manifested as the...

This is session 1 of 4 from our Grace Agenda 2021 Women's Seminar in Moscow, ID. The last several years Christ Church has tried an experiment in grace and has not charged for the Grace Agenda conference. In keeping with this spirit of grace, we are accepting free will donations at https://www.graceagenda.com/donate .

This is session 3 of 4 from our Grace Agenda 2021 Women's Seminar in Moscow, ID. The last several years Christ Church has tried an experiment in grace and has not charged for the Grace Agenda conference. In keeping with this spirit of grace, we are accepting free will donations at https://www.graceagenda.com/donate .

This is session 4 of 4 from our Grace Agenda 2021 Women's Seminar in Moscow, ID. The last several years Christ Church has tried an experiment in grace and has not charged for the Grace Agenda conference. In keeping with this spirit of grace, we are accepting free will donations at https://www.graceagenda.com/donate .

Remember Pharaoh—we still don't remember which one he is, but we do remember Shiphrah and Puah. We need to be like the holy women of old who are not afraid with any terror. This is session 2 of 4 from our Grace Agenda 2021 Women's Seminar in Moscow, ID. The last several years Christ Church has tried an experiment in grace and has not charged for the Grace Agenda conference. In keeping with this sp...

INTRODUCTION As we come now to the last chapter of Micah, we are in the judgment section of the last cycle. As before, the judgment that is going to fall on Israel and Judah both was going to be a fearsome one. This is found in the first seven verses of the seventh chapter. THE TEXT “Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: There is no...

INTRODUCTION The Sin Offering taught us that the guilt of sin not only needs to be paid for but also cleansing. Here, the Reparation/Guilt Offering teaches us that sin must always be repented of and some sins require us to do restitution. REVIEW Leviticus 1: Ascension Offering – God invites us to draw near with all that we are: the whole animal goes on the altar. Leviticus 2: Tribute Offering – Go...

Your loyalty has to be one place, and one place only. Listen to the full message, 'The Gospel of Winning,' here on the app.