Crossway Christian Church

God, in his wisdom and grace, has given the church servant leaders to shepherd his people, and has called the church to humbly submit to God-given authority.

This sermon is about a man who died and came back to life. Not just any man, but the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Jesus is not just an idea. Nor do we merely follow his teachings. It is essential for the Christian faith that Jesus was a real person who walked the earth. He had a public ministry and a public execution. But after that, he had a public resurrection. The entirety of the New Testament is...

We look at Jesus' last day on earth as it leads Him to the cross and brings good news by faith alone.

From the first spread of the Gospel, there has been hostility, even violent opposition in many places brought about by: unbelieving Jews, local officials, whether by political purposes, or, because of false accusations from Gentiles whose profits from sin were threatened. Even if Peter did not have recent news of actual persecution currently being endured by Churches and Christians in a spread-out...

As redeemed sinners, rescued from eternal punishment and waiting for the return of Christ, we are called to imitate our King.

Here, Jews and Gentiles are at odds with each other. We must be united as one.

Peter has concluded the Section of his letter that encouraged Christians to display their freedom in submission for Christ’s sake, as Citizens, Servants, Wives, and Husbands. He encouraged them to bear unjust treatment as part of their calling.

God has designed specific roles in marriage that adorn the gospel and bring him glory. That is the overarching theme that Peter is putting forward today.

Referred to by many as the greatest chapter of the Bible, Romans 8 is filled with assurance and comfort for God's people.

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God has chosen us to be his people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, so that we will make his name famous by spreading the gospel. And, so we will live lives that are obedient to his word. We will see this week in our text Peter’s instruction to that holy nation how to live and suffer in an ungodly world.

What we see here in these verses should give us great joy, and should inspire us on to further service to our king. God has saved a people for himself so that, through the church, he is glorified.

How important is prayer to us? How important is it for us to come before our God and Savior with praise, confession, thanksgiving, and concerns? Can we get along in life and ministry without his help? Here we continue our sermon series, considering the twin pillars of the Christian life—the word of God and prayer. In the past our Pillar series as largely focused on the Word and prayer for our live...

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There are two pillars that are most important yet most most neglected in Christianity. The Word of God (the Bible,) the means by which God speaks to us, his people; and prayer, the means of our speaking back to God. Without these two pillars, our fellowship with God becomes weakened and sickly and less than what it should be. Here we think about what it means to be together under the Word.

As Paul shows in the opening verses of chapter 2, part of living a life worthy of the gospel means striving for spiritual unity with the Church. That is God's concern in these verses, which means that it ought to be our concern as well.

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To summarize the sermon in one sentence, we could say this: because you've been freed from sin, fight for righteousness. Or, even simpler: as a disciple of Christ, become what you are. This is what God wants us to see this morning from Romans 6. He wants us to understand the why and how of sanctification.

What is the basis of justification? It's imputation. Justification is the legal word, but the word counted is a banking word. And this is at the heart of the doctrine of imputation. It's not our righteousness that makes us right before God, but the righteousness of Christ. Just as someone else might make a deposit in my account and the deposit would then be counted as my own money, so God counts -...

Paul shows how everyone - Jews and Gentiles - are justified by faith alone. What is justification? In Biblical terms, it speaks to God's legal declaration of our status before him. Though we are condemned for our sin before God, he declares us to be righteous in Christ.

As we continue through 1 Peter, remembering our message from last week was, “Jesus Christ – The Hope of our Salvation”. Now Peter starts his instruction to the exiles of the importance of leading a life of holiness. This theme will continue though almost all of Peter’s letter.

The book of 1 Peter calls us to stand firm in a living hope, the salvation that is only found in Jesus Christ. This gives Christians hope during persecution, even as Peter calls them to a life of holiness.

This is the glorious truth that Paul highlights in this passage: in Christ we have the propitiation we need. In him, we can be made right with God apart from any religious or moral duty on our part. But before he unfolds that good news of the gospel, he needs to bring to a close his argument for why we need Christ.

God's judgment isn't a popular concept. It probably was never very popular. Paul wants to know why God's judgement is just. In the last chapter he focused on the Gentiles just condemnation, here he focuses on his own people, the Jews.

In Christ, the righteousness of God is put on display for the world and made available to those who turn toward him in faith.