Faith Covenant Presbyterian Church

The Gospel of Matthew. We’re looking at Chapters 9 and Chapter 11. In two weeks, we start the Book of Revelation. In between here and there, a couple of topical sermons in the meantime. Today, we consider the messiness of ministering to sinners. We look to the reading of God’s word. If you please join with me in prayer. Our most gracious God, our heavenly Father, in you alone dwells all the fullne...

From the Greek word for knowledge, epistome, we get the term epistemology, which is one of those very large and intimidating words which just simply means the study or the theory of how we know. It’s the heart of knowing anything. For most of us, we basically just go through life with a rudimentary understanding without without truly knowing the details. Gravity is an easy concept to see. Just tri...

Certainly, Father, we give you thanks and praise this day. We come before your word. We ask that you would enable us to hear you. Father, that we would find that we love your law, that we find you as a hiding place, as a shield, and as our hope. Lord, that the evil might depart from us, and we would keep your Commandments that that you would uphold us with your promise, that we would live, that yo...

We continue our advent series with the Prophet Isaiah looking at chapters 11 and 12. Last week, we looked at the first two verses, and we’re going to finish out the chapter as we look to the reading of God’s word. If you would please join with me in prayer. Oh God, we do ask that you would guide us by your word and spirit that in your light we might see the light of your truth and there find

Isaiah 12. This advent, we’ve been looking to Isaiah 11 and 12 as Isaiah has pointed us for the coming of the Messiah. This morning, we’re looking at Chapter 12, Verses 1 to 2, primarily verse three, just for bridging us for what will take place next week. As we look to the reading of God’s word, if you please join with me in prayer. Father of all mercies in your word, endless glory shine forth. Y...

Continuing our Advent series from the Prophet Isaiah 11, as we look to the reading of God’s word, if you’d please join with me in prayer. Heavenly Father, as we meet now in your presence, we ask that you would open our ears to hear your voice, to open our hearts, to love you more and more, to open our souls, to receive your word in its fullness, that your son Jesus, the word made flesh, would be g...

Messianic message of Hope in chapter 11 as we look to the reading of God’s Word, though if you please join with me in prayer. Father of all mercies, let us stand in awe of you this day. Help us by your spirit to put your words into our hearts, write them upon our minds. Let your Word come to us in the fullness of its power. Help us to receive it in love with attentive and reverent and teachable

Daniel 9. As you know, the Bible is made up of 66 books, but it is one continuous story. Through thousands of years, a great drama of human redemption is unfolding. And this series has been looking at all of these time periods and connecting all of the dots. And we’re going to close out looking at the exile and return. And if you’re visiting, it should be a stand-along message, but it does build o...

To have glanced down, you’ll see that first word, and you might ask, what’s the therefore? Therefore. It’s always a good question when you see that word in a passage, and ours begins with that word today. Before we read our text this morning, let’s take a quick peek at the back story. Throughout, indeed, our whole series, we have seen both the faithlessness of man contrasted with the faithfulness...

Heart and a brightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules. Then I’ll establish your royal throne of Israel forever, as I promised David, your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel. But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my Commandments, my statutes that I have set before you, but...

The sleepiness this morning. So Holy spirit, we ask that you would quicken our souls, lead us to still waters and the righteous paths of your son through his word. In the name of the Father, Son, Holy spirit. Amen. Passage this morning is 2 Samuel 7: 1-17, the word of the Lord. Now, when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies, the king said to...

We’ve been tracing the major events of the Bible to show God’s faithfulness to different generations of his people. For some of you, if that’s new to you, some of the accounts and the stories as we’re connecting the dots of a single story, that’s okay. If you’re missing a couple of dots, just know that the other ones you’ll know and connect, and the overall picture should come into focus. We are i...

We pray for the preaching of God’s word. Lord, the grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of the Lord stands forever. Amen. What an incredible scene. Pharaoh this year, the second in command of all of Egypt, has taken time to meet with these eleven sons of Israel. And as our text opens, we see Joseph is so completely overcome with emotion that he dismisses all others from the room. Weepi...

We’ll be looking at the life of Jacob and God’s faithfulness this morning as we prepare for the reading of God’s word. If you please join with me in prayer. Bless a Triune Lord in your great and kind providence. All holy scriptures were written and preserved for our instruction. We ask that you give us grace to hear them proclaim this day, that you would strengthen our souls with the fullness of t...

16 and 21. But we’re going to be looking at the life of Abraham, God’s calling on him as we look at God’s faithfulness in his life. We look through the reading of God’s word if you would join with me in prayer. Well, Lord, we do ask that you would shed your light upon us, that being rid of the darkness of our hearts, that we may come into the true light, which is Christ, who is the light

Doing our series on God’s generational faithfulness. And so far we’ve looked at the generations of Adam. Despite Adam’s rebellion, God remains faithful. Despite Cain’s murder of his brother, God remains faithful. But it doesn’t get better. We’re going to look how it gets worse in this first passage we’re going to read. You follow with me. This is Genesis 6: 5-8. The Lord saw that the wickedness of...

Hear God’s word read. Let me pray for this, the reading of his word. This will flow from Psalm 119, the section entitled Zion. Let us pray. Lord, remember your word to your servant in which you have made me hope. This is my comfort in my affliction that your promise gives me life. The insolent utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law. When I think of your rules from of old. I take c...

As we see, of course, the Bible is one continuous story, but we’re going to be looking at the major moments of transition and the unfolding of the covenant of redemption. And today we’re starting with the fall. God’s good creation turns bad as we look through the reading of God’s word. If you’d please join with me in prayer. Our Father, majesty and bounded, worthy of all worship, and you, Christ,...

Proverbs 4, the last of the summer psalms and Proverbs, we finish out our look at living a life in wisdom directed by the Proverbs. As we look to the reading of God’s word, though, if you please join with me in prayer. Father of all mercies, let us stand in awe of you this day. We ask that you’d help us by your spirit put your words into our hearts, that you would write them upon our minds, and

Please speak peace to our anxious hearts. We incline our ears to hear your words of truth. Amen. Well, since I am the new youth guy, I figured that I would preach a sermon on generational wisdom. Every generation has its new idiosynchrosies, its new little things. I like to show how they’re different from those who’ve come before. And so often there’s these new words that come out. So I looked up...

We’re looking at the value of being told no, that no is good for our souls. I’m very aware of the yeah, but nature of this message. Yeah, but what about this circumstance? Well, you don’t understand. Yeah, but this is different. I would just simply want to encourage you, listen first, and then not to let your objections keep you in the way of hearing God’s word. We look through the reading of God’...

Amid fiery beast, the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords. Be exaltet, oh God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth. They set a net for my steps. My soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. Say, La. My heart is steadfast, O God. My heart is steadfast. I will sing and make melody. Awake,...

And the wisdom that God gives to us through it. We look to the redeemed God’s word, though, if you would please join with me in prayer. Christ our God, we ask that you set our hearts on fire with love through your word. Lord, that in it we would love you with all of our heart, with all of our mind, with all of our strength, and our neighbor as ourself. For that by keeping your Commandments, Lord,...

The lens of God’s character. What we saw is that knowing is relational. This morning in the next couple of weeks, we’re going to look at Proverbs expanding on that understanding of wisdom is relational. If we look to the reading of God’s word, if you please join with me in prayer. Bless are you, O God, the Father of all mercy. You have elected us. You’ve called us. You’ve justified us and sanctifi...

The underlying truths of the psalm, how that informs our considerations as we look to the reading of God’s Word. If you join with me in prayer, Father, we do thank you and bless you that you have given us your word preserved from one generation to the next. And Father, as we come before you today with questions of our generation, we ask then that you would continue to speak your eternal truths whi...