Morningview Sermon Podcast

In this sermon, delivered as part of our Christmas worship celebration, we explore how Jesus is the righteous branch of the root of Jesse who will sit on David's throne as the perfect king whom all God's people long to know and worship.

In the first of a two part sermon series for Christmas, we begin exploring this passage in Isaiah 9 to understand how Jesus is the promised King who will finally conquer, subject, and restore creation to state of purity and splendor where we will be able to glorify Him by enjoying Him for all eternity.

As we pick up with the second half of Peter's Pentecost sermon, we explore the biblical significance of Christ's resurrection and the glory of his exaltation to the right hand of the Father. We conclude by discussing how we are to respond to the biblical truth of Christ's Person and work.

In this sermon from Joshua 23-24, Pastor Jon English explains the faithfulness of God, the glory of the new covenant, and the blessing of Christ as our prophet, priest, and king.

As we saw in the previous text, crowds of people had gathered to see what was going on when they heard the sound of the Spirit and the Christians speaking in tongues. Some of them were asking the honest question “What do these things mean?” and some accused the Christians of being drunk. Peter stands forth from the 12 Apostles to answer both the honest question and the accusation, and what he give...

In this sermon from Joshua 21-22, Pastor Jon English explains 5 lessons from the Levites concerning: prayer, providence, provision, position, and perspective.

The Day of Pentecost is the Birthday of the New Covenant People of God, and it is a day of explosive power and truth and joy. Because of the Charismatic movement, this text is too often and too simply treated as a proof text for tongues. But in this sermon we will see it is more about God's glory in fulfilling His promise to establish Christ's kingdom in the next era of redemtive history. Through...

In this sermon from Joshua 20, Pastor Jon English explains the background of the cities of refuge, the concern of the Lord, and the blessed priority of mercy.

How do we occupy ourselves as believers when God brings us to a time where we must wait? That's where the disciples were. Jesus had ascended back to heaven, He had told them to return to Jerusalem, and now they had to wait for the promise of the Holy Spirit to come. Their example of how they spent their time waiting for the Lord to fulfill His promise teaches us some critical lessons about what wa...

God accomplishes his work in his people by his grace and for his glory. So rejoice, be confident in God, and bear fruit that lasts.

As we continue our exposition of the book of Acts, we explore in this sermon Christ's final in-person words to His disciples followed by His ascension to the right hand of the Father. Through these 6 verses, it is made very clear who we are in this world. The church is a people defined wholly by Christ. We are a people with: A Present Focus, A Divine Empowerment, A Clear Identity, A Sovereign King...

As Luke opens the sequel to his gospel account, he links his history of the early church firmly and faithfully to the Person and Ministry of Jesus Christ. In these opening verses, we also have Jesus once again promising to His disciples the coming baptism of the Holy Spirit. These two things – the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the power of His Holy Spirit – are center- stage in everything that follow...

Pastor Robert examines 1 Timothy 1:12-20 and Paul's thanksgiving to Christ for saving him, and the renewed charge to Timothy to wage the good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience.

 In this sermon, Pastor Jordan shows us that those who keep in righteousness are actually born of God and the Spirit is working in them.

In this sermon, Pastor Jordan shows us the ramifications of those who make a practice of sinning. 

A sermon on chapter 4 of Ruth which shows God keeping His promises to provide a king for physical and spiritual Israel. 

In this sermon from Joshua 18-19, Pastor Jon English explains the reminders from the Lord: the goal of salvation being worship; the scope of redemption; the danger of laxity; Yahweh is the one in authority; and God keeps his promises.

In this sermon from Joshua 15-17, Pastor Jon English explains the examples of bold faith, how God's ways are not like man's ways, and a warning against disobedience and discontentment.

In the previous sermon, we looked at how the Holy Spirit was operative in His humanity in terms of His incarnation, human development, public ministry, sacrifice, and exaltation. Having laid that groundwork of the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the life of Jesus, we are going to return to John 14 and John Owen's work to explore the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the believer's life.

In this sermon, Pastor Robert Gardner examines Paul's encouragement to Timothy that the law is good. This is true if the law is used lawfully, so he explores lawful and unlawful uses of the law, with particular attention given to the "three-fold use of the law".

In this sermon, we explore the ministry of the Holy Spirit based upon Jesus' promise of the 'Helper' that he would send after His ascension. Drawing upon the works of John Owen and Sinclair Ferguson, we explore this central thesis: The character of the Holy Spirit's ministry to Jesus Christ is the determinative character of the Holy Spirit's ministry to every believer.

In this sermon from Joshua 13-14, Pastor Jon English explains the stability of God’s plan, a warning against incomplete obedience, an encouragement from priestly inheritance, and a picture of Christ’s faithfulness as seen in the example of Caleb.

Jacob Thomas shows how Jesus is the fulfillment of the virtue of Ruth's kinsman-redeemer, Boaz.

In this sermon from Joshua 10:29-12:24, Pastor Jon English explains the divine gift of progress, the necessity of endurance, the fearfulness of divine hardening, God’s might over the mighty, and the great faithfulness of the lord.

In this sermon from Joshua 10, Pastor Jon English explains the biblical image of the divine warrior, the power of prayer, and the image of victory found in Christ.