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What does the Lord desire for and from us as we celebrate the Lord’s Supper?

Paul goes on to answer the question of how the great benefits of the Gospel become ours. It’s our association with Christ, with Him as our representative before God that we are able to receive life. Faith moves us from being found in Adam, under the reign of death, into the righteousness and eternal life Jesus offers.

When someone comes to trust in Jesus there is the great promise of forgiveness and eternal life. The benefits of being made right with God, however, are not things simply limited to the future, they begin right now. In Romans 5 we have a listing of multiple benefits to those who trust in Jesus. These benefits help us to live life now finding our confidence in God’s love for us.

Today, we look at three key topics in this text: righteousness, The Promise and justification. Paul uses these three topics to show us that righteousness is God's gift that opens the door to an unbreakable friendship with God.

After laying out the bad news of our absolute inability to approach God on our own terms, Paul shows how God himself has provided all that it needed for righteousness before Him, through Jesus Christ and His atoning work.

This sermon explores God’s heart for the poor and the root cause of suffering in the world, as the Bible reveals that sin is the root problem behind poverty and brokenness. As we look at key events throughout God’s word, we discover that the good news of Jesus is the ultimate hope for suffering, while also empowering Christians to care practically for those in need. Featuring stories connected to...

The Bad News before the Good News: We are all under the power of sin • No one obeys the Law fully, so no one will be declared righteous • The Law doesn’t give salvation, it gives us knowledge of sin • The whole world is accountable to God; We are all facing God’s judgment and His wrath.

Humans have a tendency to sit over and above others when we feel privileged. Paul turns to the Jews now to ensure they know their own broken, condemned state before God, even as those who were privileged with God’s law.

The Gospel reveals both God’s righteousness in Christ, but also why we needed it. Paul lays out here the harsh reality of our wickedness and where it comes from; a suppression of the truth of God’s existence. Yet, even in the face of this truth, the hope of salvation is still held out in the gospel.

The Gospel is God’s power for salvation for all people. It drives everything the apostle Paul does. It prompts his prayers, it drives his plans, and it overflows into his proclamation.

The relevance of Paul's Gospel message is wholly dependent on and determined by the reality of who Jesus Christ is. Paul claims that he is both a human descendant of David, according to God’s promises, and, by His resurrection, declared to be the Holy Son of God. It’s faith in this Jesus that brings about eternal change in our lives.

Two men go to the temple to pray, but only one comes back right with God. Jesus’ story tells us why.

Jesus deliberately turns cultural expectations upside down by taking the role of a servant and washing his disciples’ feet. Knowing his authority and his coming suffering, Jesus chooses humility, demonstrating that true greatness is found not in status or power but in self-giving love. Through this intimate and uncomfortable act, he teaches that those who follow him are called to serve others will...

If Jesus rose from the dead, if the tomb was empty, then our hope in Him is absolutely certain. He has loved us, forgiven our sins, secured us for eternity, and sharing his message is worthwhile.

All the people watching Jesus being crucified hurled insults at him, saying, “Save yourself”. The truth is, he could have, but he didn’t. He stayed there for us, because we couldn’t save ourselves.

The world crowns powerful people with money, status, how much you own, how much you are worth, but God crowned Jesus the king with a crown of thorns. And yet through that cross, Jesus displayed the greatest power the universe has ever seen — the power of sacrificial love that saves sinners. Because in the kingdom of God: The greatest person in the room is not the one being served. It’s the one ser...

Receiving eternal life is releasing and receiving Jesus.

Jesus responds to the Pharisee’s faulty view of marriage in God’s kingdom with God’s ideal and expectation. Marriage models Jesus’ faithful commitment to his people.

God’s heart beats for those who are in need. In Mark 9, Jesus helps his disciples understand that being like God is losing yourself to serve the least among them, just like Jesus did for us.

In life there are many voices that we listen to. Our ears are filled with podcasts, music, netflix, news, and politics. In the midst of all the noise it is hard to hear the voice of God speaking to us. In this section of Mark, Jesus takes a few of disciples away and in the midst of a busy season of ministry he reveals to them his glory. In this midst of this transfiguration his disciples are spoke...

Jesus wants his disciples, and all those who will follow him to see the call clearly. The way of the Christ is the way of the cross, and so too the way of the Christian is the way of the Christ.

It’s possible to know just enough about Jesus to feel confident and still miss him entirely. In Mark 8:1-21, Jesus patiently confronts both hardened unbelief and partial understanding, urging us to move from shallow sight to a deep, life shaping clarity about his identity and mission.

Jesus meets two different groups of people who demonstrate for us what it looks like to approach God with genuine humility, understanding who we are in light of who He is.

Unlike what many of can think, that our greatest problems are external. Jesus clearly describes where our greatest problems come from - the heart!

Disciples of Jesus are driven by the reality of Jesus’ resurrection and commission to give all we’ve got to help others come to find life in Him.