Jacey Davison Sermons

What is the Lord's Supper and how does it bless us?

What does it look like to warmly welcome and lovingly care for outsiders both practically and relationally?

One leads to chaos and corruption, the other leads to righteousness and peace. Learn the virtues and vices that make for social order or disorder.

If we are to form meaningful relationships with unbelievers, then we need to be present where they are and learn the art of friendliness!

The Christian who desires to honour God in his speech ought to also honour God's image-bearers, carefully considering his words.

We want to learn to engage in productive gospel dialogues, showing genuine interest in other people.

Our lives testify to the worth of Christ. Particularly we're called to the witness of holiness, the witness of helpfulness, and the witness of happiness.

What does James mean when he says that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone? What's the difference between a living faith and a dead faith?

We must bring the local church back into our evangelistic efforts.

We desperately need a biblical framework with which to think through issues of discrimination. James provides us just that.

Where is hope in this dark world? How should we live in light of the coming of the Servant? "Let him who walks in darkness an has no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God."

This world is a mess, full of pain and suffering. We wonder if God cares and what God will do. But we first need to consider what God has already done to bring hope to a hopeless world.

Simply put, baptism reminds us that God forgives sin and empowers new obedience. Q167: How is our Baptism to be improved by us? A: The needful but much neglected duty of improving our Baptism, is to be performed by us all our life long, especially in the time of temptation, and when we are present at the administration of it to others; by serious and thankful consideration of the nature of it, and...

Jesus delivers us from injustice without by delivering us from idolatry within.

This lecture includes a discussion of the two valid paths to baptism, profession of faith or birth to a confessing parents, and the biblical support for each. From Westminster Larger Catechism Q166: Unto whom is Baptism to be administered? A: Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, and so strangers from the covenant of promise, till they profess their faith in...

A lecture on the components of baptism, the significations of baptism, and the function of baptism. From Westminster Larger Catechism Q165: What is Baptism? A: Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, wherein Christ hath ordained the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, to be a sign and seal of ingrafting into himself, of remission of sins by his...

The sacraments are given to reveal the gospel, reinforce our faith, renew our obedience, revive our love, and remind us of our identity. Q161: How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation? The sacraments become effectual means of salvation, not by any power in themselves, or any virtue derived from the piety or intention of him by whom they are administered, but only by the working of...

This world desperately needs to see an authentic representation of the Christian faith. James teaches us that authentic Christianity is the religion of the bridled tongue, the merciful hand, and the holy heart.

Q160: What is required of those that hear the word preached? It is required of those that hear the word preached, that they attend upon it with diligence, preparation, and prayer; examine: What they hear by the scriptures; receive the truth with faith, love, meekness, and readiness of mind, as the word of God; meditate, and confer of it; hide it in their hearts, and bring forth the fruit of it in...

Q. 159. How is the Word of God to be preached by those that are called thereunto? A. They that are called to labor in the ministry of the word, are to preach sound doctrine, diligently, in season and out of season; plainly, not in the enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power; faithfully, making known the whole counsel of God; wisely, applying themselves to t...

Q158: By whom is the word of God to be preached? A: The word of God is to be preached only by such as are sufficiently gifted, and also duly approved and called to that office.

The Christian is called to a life of endeavouring obedience to the law of God. This is the blessed life.  James 1 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25...

Q. 156. Is the Word of God to be read by all? A. Although all are not to be permitted to read the word publicly to the congregation, yet all sorts of people are bound to read it apart by themselves, and with their families: to which end, the holy Scriptures are to be translated out of the original into vulgar languages. Q. 157. How is the Word of God to be read? A. The holy Scriptures are to be re...

Q. 155. How is the word made effectual to salvation? A. The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but especially the preaching of the word, an effectual means of enlightening, convincing, and humbling sinners; of driving them out of themselves, and drawing them unto Christ; of conforming them to his image, and subduing them to his will; of strengthening them against temptations and corruptions; of bui...

James warns God's people of the dangers of anger, the beauty of meekness, and the way to be transformed from a person of anger to a person of meekness.