Ramsey Creek Baptist Church Sermons

The things that this psalm points our minds back to are designed to inspire reflection and praise. Everything that we have – everything that we give thanks for – comes out of this truth: God is good. What the Lord has done, He is continuing to do because of His goodness and love. God’s providence in our lives oftentimes leads us through pain and trials. God redeems, sustains, and leads His people...

Everything hinges on the atoning death of Christ and on His resurrection. But we can’t rightly celebrate the empty tomb without first understanding the cross. When Jesus quoted the first line of Psalm 22 on the cross, the minds of the Jews listening would have immediately gone back to that psalm. Psalm 22 was coming to life in the death of Jesus. The resurrection celebrates Jesus’ triumph over sin...

Everything hinges on the atoning death of Christ and on His resurrection. But we can’t rightly celebrate the empty tomb without first understanding the cross. When Jesus quoted the first line of Psalm 22 on the cross, the minds of the Jews listening would have immediately gone back to that psalm. Psalm 22 was coming to life in the death of Jesus. The resurrection celebrates Jesus’ triumph over sin...

Thanksgiving is a response to a former kindness. God instructed the people of Israel to give the census ransom as a way of remembering whose they were, who they belonged to (Ex. 30). Satan tempted Adam & Eve, David here, and you and I still today not just that we don’t need God, but that we are actually god. Herein lies David’s problem in 2 Sam. 24, and to what I believe he’s referring to in Psalm...

Thanksgiving is a response to a former kindness. God instructed the people of Israel to give the census ransom as a way of remembering whose they were, who they belonged to (Ex. 30). Satan tempted Adam & Eve, David here, and you and I still today not just that we don’t need God, but that we are actually god. Herein lies David’s problem in 2 Sam. 24, and to what I believe he’s referring to in Psalm...

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Learning from the past has two profound effects on the Christian: 1. It leads us to obedience and holiness. (Psalm 78 & 105) 2. It leads us to praise and worship. (Psalm 26) But what happens when the things that have occurred in your life don’t easily lead to these things? What happens when life leads to lament? There is proper lament, and there is improper lament. There is godly sorrow, and there...

Learning from the past has two profound effects on the Christian: 1. It leads us to obedience and holiness. (Psalm 78 & 105) 2. It leads us to praise and worship. (Psalm 26) But what happens when the things that have occurred in your life don’t easily lead to these things? What happens when life leads to lament? There is proper lament, and there is improper lament. There is godly sorrow, and there...

One generation teaching the next has always been God’s way. The point of retelling history is so that the next generation might learn something. In particular, that they might learn how to obey God & keep His commands. We are commanded to remember. God remembers the covenant-promise He has made to His people. Our perspective includes all of history so we don’t make the same mistakes. Whether it’s...

One generation teaching the next has always been God’s way. The point of retelling history is so that the next generation might learn something. In particular, that they might learn how to obey God & keep His commands. We are commanded to remember. God remembers the covenant-promise He has made to His people. Our perspective includes all of history so we don’t make the same mistakes. Whether it’s...

David's trust was not in his own strength, his fighting ability, or even in his growing number of supporters – he says his trust was in the Lord. There was something better that David wanted to constantly put before his eyes, and he resolved to walk in integrity no matter what others were doing. There is little more that revives our faith and puts things in the right perspective than remembering t...

David's trust was not in his own strength, his fighting ability, or even in his growing number of supporters – he says his trust was in the Lord. There was something better that David wanted to constantly put before his eyes, and he resolved to walk in integrity no matter what others were doing. There is little more that revives our faith and puts things in the right perspective than remembering t...

Psalms is a great picture of the normal life of faith. Which counsel do you heed? Who do you listen to? There’s no shortage of voices. Psalm 1 helps us weed through these voices and helps us understand that truth exists. A righteous person delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on it constantly. Though your situation may seem overwhelming, remember that you have been planted, are continuall...

Psalms is a great picture of the normal life of faith. Which counsel do you heed? Who do you listen to? There’s no shortage of voices. Psalm 1 helps us weed through these voices and helps us understand that truth exists. A righteous person delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on it constantly. Though your situation may seem overwhelming, remember that you have been planted, are continuall...

The Spirit is the actual author of every Psalm, and Jesus and His apostles treated the Psalms as the infallible Word of God. We want to study and show ourselves approved in order to know God better through His Word, not just to be better informed. Jesus studied & memorized the same Psalms. The Psalms we read are the same Psalms He read, and cherished, and memorized, and quoted. In our time in Psal...

The Spirit is the actual author of every Psalm, and Jesus and His apostles treated the Psalms as the infallible Word of God. We want to study and show ourselves approved in order to know God better through His Word, not just to be better informed. Jesus studied & memorized the same Psalms. The Psalms we read are the same Psalms He read, and cherished, and memorized, and quoted. In our time in Psal...

Just as we learn from the good example of Gaius, we also learn from the bad example of Diotrephes. John reveals 5 things about Diotrephes in v.9-11: 1. He had selfish self-esteem. [v.9a] 2. He wouldn’t listen to truth. [v.9b] 3. He was a gossip and a slanderer. [v.10a] 4. He was unhospitable. [v.10b] 5. He became as evil as Lucifer. [v.10c] (Isaiah 14:14) What John describes here is a self-obsesse...

Just as we learn from the good example of Gaius, we also learn from the bad example of Diotrephes. John reveals 5 things about Diotrephes in v.9-11: 1. He had selfish self-esteem. [v.9a] 2. He wouldn’t listen to truth. [v.9b] 3. He was a gossip and a slanderer. [v.10a] 4. He was unhospitable. [v.10b] 5. He became as evil as Lucifer. [v.10c] (Isaiah 14:14) What John describes here is a self-obsesse...

Jesus’ command is to love one another, and when we fail to do so we reveal our wrong theology. Our friendships should thrive on a shared relationship with Jesus, the Truth. What if we asked God to bless someone physically to the same degree that they are healthy spiritually? If your physical health mirrored your spiritual health, would you be fit and energetic? Would you be in bed with a prolonged...

Jesus’ command is to love one another, and when we fail to do so we reveal our wrong theology. Our friendships should thrive on a shared relationship with Jesus, the Truth. What if we asked God to bless someone physically to the same degree that they are healthy spiritually? If your physical health mirrored your spiritual health, would you be fit and energetic? Would you be in bed with a prolonged...

The truth of Christ is found in the commands Christ, and the commands of Christ are expressed in love for fellow believers. There is an unusual purpose for this expression of love - walking in obedience is not just to display devotion but to discern deceivers. Gospel community helps us discern wrong and deceitful doctrine. How do we know if we or others belong to Jesus? - What’s their/our relation...

Right relationships with one another only exist where the Gospel is taught, believed, & lived out. John never intends the knowledge of God to stop in our heads. Knowledge of God always affects our relationships with one another. Heb. 10:24 says, “let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works”. When someone loves you well, it motivates you to do that same kind of thing for someo...

Right relationships with one another only exist where the Gospel is taught, believed, & lived out. John never intends the knowledge of God to stop in our heads. Knowledge of God always affects our relationships with one another. Heb. 10:24 says, “let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works”. When someone loves you well, it motivates you to do that same kind of thing for someo...

If we understand that the “elect lady and her children” refers to the church, then John lays out 4 aspects of truth: 1. Truth is the basis for mutual love in the Christian life. 2. Truth is the basis for mutual fellowship in the Christian life. 3. Mutual love and fellowship amongst believers is built on the eternal nature of truth. 4. The Gospel details walk upon the two legs: truth and love. Mutu...

If we understand that the “elect lady and her children” refers to the church, then John lays out 4 aspects of truth: 1. Truth is the basis for mutual love in the Christian life. 2. Truth is the basis for mutual fellowship in the Christian life. 3. Mutual love and fellowship amongst believers is built on the eternal nature of truth. 4. The Gospel details walk upon the two legs: truth and love. Mutu...