Christ Church (Moscow, ID)

While we should be persistent, militant, and ambitious for growth and holiness and success, Christians should also care about the process as much as the final product. You could drag your kids through family worship or a classical education and they could hate you at the end of it. It would have been better to do less with joy and win their hearts than lose their hearts on the altar of some checkl...

Preacher: Dr. Tim Edwards. Text: Galatians 4:21–5:6.

Preacher: Douglas Wilson. One of the features of the modern evangelical world is that we hear conflicting voices. On the one hand we hear those calling for radical discipleship and renunciation. On the other we hear the clamor of those selling what has come to be called the “health and wealth” gospel. It should not surprise us to discover that the Scriptures actually teach us both. And the only wa...

Preacher: Ben Zornes. Our tendency is to avoid hearing hard words. We tolerate plenty of profane words. We don’t mind trading rhetorical blows of biting words, or watching the “food fight” of political & media blow-hards. But we shield ourselves against hard words.

Preacher: Toby Sumpter “The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool” (Ps. 110:1). Where is Jesus right now? We confess the answer every single week: He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. And what is Jesus doing at the right hand of God the Father? He is reigning until all of His enemies have been put beneath His...

Preacher: Shawn Paterson At the time of the Reformation, the inherited church calendar was bloated and a burden, with 40–60 holy days and dozens of fasting days. The Reformed solution to this problem varied. Some ditched the calendar altogether, while the majority retained what are called the five evangelical feast days: Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension Day, and Pentecost. Both groups use...

There is so much freedom in obedience. But sinners complicate everything, and by our own hard hearts, we make obedience hard.

We live in a generation that wants to define family in radically perverse and demented ways. In times like this, it is easy to allow phrases like the traditional family and the biblical family to blur together, as though they were the same thing. But the biblical family is much more militant than the traditional family, and much less sentimental. And this is one of the reasons why the traditional...

Preacher: Douglas Wilson The word eucatastrophe was coined by J.R.R. Tolkien, and it refers to a deliverance when all was thought to be lost. There was no possible way . . . and then the unbelievable happened. “My chains fell off, my heart was free. I rose, went forth, and followed thee.”

The reason our nation is fracturing into tribes, breaking the tenuous alliances that held us together, and drawing battle lines is that we have fled from the worship of the triune God, and run to worship various idols. So, don’t join frenzied crowds who aren’t governed by the Spirit of Wisdom. But do not lag behind when it comes to zealously pursuing the worship of God alone.

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Preacher: Douglas Wilson Text: 1 Cor. 2:1–10 Jesus was crucified in a public way, and His death necessarily has public ramifications. There is no way to be fully faithful to the message of His death and resurrection in private. Private faith in this public event cannot, in the very nature of the case, remain private.

Preacher: Dr. George Grant Text: 1 Cor. 1:18–31

This psalm is the next in the psalms of ascent (120-134)—a psalm that would be sung as pilgrims made their way up to Jerusalem. This is a psalm of true assurance . . . for true men.

"The one thing our culture does not want is strong women, free women because that would mean hundreds of millions of forgiven women." – Toby Sumpter

Preacher: Ben Zornes Sons and daughters, hang with me here, are different. If you hand a girl a nerf gun, she’ll wrap it in a blanket and put it to bed. If you hand a doll to a boy, somehow he’ll turn it into a gun. As fathers and mothers, you are called to raise your sons and daughters in the fear and admonition of the Lord. But while the Lord admonishes certain things to all people—male or femal...

Preacher: Douglas Wilson Text: Gen. 1:21, Isa. 27:1, Ps. 74:12–14 We do not pay enough attention to foundational myths. This is the case both with the fanciful myths of the unbelievers and the genuine myths that are recorded for us in Scripture. While many myths are false, and Scripture treats the word in that way, with myths being described as pernicious, false, and unedifying (1 Tim. 1:4, 4:7; 2...

Dr. Jonathan Gibson is ordained in the International Presbyterian Church (UK) and assistant professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary.

Preacher: Joshua Dockter Serving is a great antidote to the sin of envy and sidelong glances.

Preacher: Ben Zornes Courage is not being the first to comment, and the last one to leave a Facebook fight (round about 1am). Courage isn’t talking louder than everyone else. It isn’t the mere presence of adrenaline in the midst of a tense situation. Courage has many counterfeits, while cowardice often wears a bold face.

Preacher: Douglas Wilson When you consider the peril our nation is currently in, and you reflect on the fact that this psalm came up as the text for this Lord’s Day purely by happenstance, your conclusion needs to be that it is almost as though a higher power were at work. In 1582, in Edinburgh, an imprisoned minister named John Durie was released from prison. He was welcomed on the edge of town b...