Him We Proclaim Podcast

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Happy Reformation Day! (November 1).  We are celebrating Reformation Day with our special series called The Five Solas.  Pastor John and Josh Montez recorded the introductions to the podcast this time, so please enjoy the dialogues they had as we dive into the rich history and amazing stories of Martin Luthe...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Not everyone has the opportunity to travel to the birthplace of the Protestant Reformation in Europe to study the works of Martin Luther and others. Therefore, the Wittenberg Center for Reformation Studies (Wittenberg, Germany), in partnership with Paramount Church (Jacksonville, Florida) is pleased to offer...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! One of the most hope-filled concepts in Scripture is knowing that God listens to His own.  When we call on the name of the Lord, He promises to answer us.  This act of worship is called Invocation and it’s where worship begins.  Resources: Hope and Holiness: How the Gospel Enables and Empowers Sexual Purity...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Jesus is the living bread that satisfies the deepest hunger in our lives.  That’s why we gather each week and partake The Lord’s Supper.  Communion is a sign of close fellowship between God and his people.  It’s not an ordinary meal, it’s a holy meal, where Christians participate when they gather to worship....

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! What goes through your mind when you hear that “The Living God Is Our Servant”?  We see in Scripture that Jesus - is not only our Lord, He is our Servant.  This makes us pause and think doesn’t it?  We are going to take a look at the passages where Jesus served God and His people fulfilling the law and gospe...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Today we looking at the topic of public worship and why folks gather each week for church worship.  We’re learning more and more about the reason behind church liturgy and how this flow of worship from God helps us receive the gifts of grace and peace that the Lord Jesus has for us. Resources: Hope and Holin...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! We are in a series about corporate worship called the Gift Giver and His Gathered Guests.  We’ve been learning in the previous lessons that we gather each Lord’s day to be served and that worship is the heart of discipleship.  Today we are looking at how there is an inseparable relationship between worship a...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Why do we gather at church each week for word and sacrament?   We are in a series called the Gift Giver and His Gathered Guests.  Today, we are talking about the Liturgy of the Church.  These are the things that we do together such as singing, scripture reading, praying, participating in the lord’s table and...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Today we are at the start of a new series about worship.  It’s called The Gift Giver, and His Gathered Guests.  Over the next several weeks John will be walking us through a set of lessons that remind us that we gather in congregations to receive the abundant gifts from our triune God - to be served by Him. ...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! (Part 5) As a Child of God do you sometimes still live in fear or shame of things about your past? According to John Fonville, when a Child of God is being crippled by shame and guilt is not life, it’s hell on earth. Christians sometimes say they dread the day when Christ returns because of their past failur...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! (Part 4) As a Child of God do you sometimes still live in fear or shame of things about your past? According to John Fonville, when a Child of God is being crippled by shame and guilt is not life, it’s hell on earth. Christians sometimes say they dread the day when Christ returns because of their past failur...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! (Part 3) As a Child of God do you sometimes still live in fear or shame of things about your past? According to John Fonville, when a Child of God is being crippled by shame and guilt is not life, it’s hell on earth. Christians sometimes say they dread the day when Christ returns because of their past failur...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Podcast highlight: "Let us come remembering that the gospel is for sinners. It's not for those who can make themselves squeaky clean because here's a little hint you can't do that. If you find this morning that your heart is more awake and more deceitful than you ever imagined, be assured...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! This is Song #4 in the Five Songs of the Nativity Series called The Song of the Angels.   How good it is to remember that the armies of Heaven appeared to lowly shepherds and sang gloriously to the God of Heaven in celebration of the birth of our savior. John Fonville’s new book is called Hope and Holiness:...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Today's Christmas message is called The song of Zechariah --  who was the father of John the Baptist.  And his song, was a Hymn of Hope.  As we’ll see today Zechariah was well versed in the prophecies of the Old Testament and expresses great hope for the coming Messiah as the events around the birth of...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Our Christmas series is called The Five Songs of the Nativity.  We are on to message #2.  Each of these “songs” from the Gospel of Luke shows us how the Old Testament ties in completely with the New on not only fulfilling prophecy but showing how much God’s people are longing for Christ.  Here’s John with Th...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Simeon was a devout and just man who showed up at the dedication of Jesus.  God sent an angel to Simeon beforehand with a promise that he would be able to look upon  Christ his savior before the end of his life.  It's a beautiful example of God fulfilling His promises to His people. John Fonville’s new...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! This Christmas season we are re-airing some classic Christmas sermons.  The one we chose is from 2017 - which seems like a lifetime ago doesn’t it?  Well, even though that’s only about 5 Christmas’s ago it makes us pause and wonder.  Before Jesus came to earth that first time there were decades and even cent...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! (Part 2) About a year ago, John Preached some messages called Gospel Assurance in an Age of Uncertainty.  He gave this message to encourage his flock because - As a nation we were just starting to peek our heads out of the Pandemic and dealing what many were calling Pandemic PTSD.  We were not alone in how w...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! About a year ago, John Preached some messages called Gospel Assurance in an Age of Uncertainty.  He gave this message to encourage his flock because - As a nation we were just starting to peek our heads out of the Pandemic and dealing what many were calling Pandemic PTSD.  We were not alone in how we felt. ...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Today is our concluding Sola – Called Soli Deo Gloria – Our Only Goal.  Has your ego ever gotten in your way?  Or you just want the credit or the praise for something you achieved?  When it comes to our salvation, only God should get the credit, right?  We didn’t earn it.  It’s an incomparable gift of God’s...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Are you enjoying the 5 Solas?  Today is #4 -- Sola Fide.  All the Solas are significant and closely tied together.  However, our faith alone in Jesus Christ to save us from our sins is what separates Protestant Christianity from all other religions. We are surrounded by “man’s achievements” and false shepher...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Back in 2017 – which sounds like a lifetime ago, John Fonville helped commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation with a set of messages called the Five Solas.  It’s one of our favorite sets to play during this time of year.  Tradition says the Reformation began on October 31st, 1517 when...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! A son of Abraham is a believer and follower of Christ.  However, during Bible times there was a religious crowd that added to the gospel and made life difficult or impossible to follow Jesus.  Let’s learn more about being a “son of Abraham.” Resources: Hope and Holiness: How the Gospel Enables and Empowers S...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! (Part 3) Today we are answering the question: How Are You Righteous Before God.  This mini-series is called  The Fundamental Blessing of the Gospel.  We live in a day where we have to get our thinking and our theology right quite often – to counter the barrage of false teachings.  And while these false teach...