Sermons

John the Baptist

How God created the Church to function

Overview of Mark

The Lord's Prayer

Paul sails for Rome

God plan

Desiring God's Word

Reflecting on the past but looking forward to what's ahead

Looking from the manger to the cross

7 Attributes

Advent

God's Plan of Salvation

In Psalm 32 we are shown that it is the forgiven person who is the truly blessed and happy person. Have you experienced this great and joyful blessing? Is it one that you continually experience through a life of repentance?

The Christian life is a life that involves continual repentance. Yes, daily we are called to be confessing our sin before our Lord asking to be washed in the blood of Christ afresh. In Psalm 51 David gives us an example to follow as we seek to do this well.

In this last message of the series we look at the new heavens and the new earth when Christ returns. Also, we look at the Great Commission.

Seasons of struggle that cause depression and great sadness are not uncommon in the Christian life. But thankfully God's Word speaks into these seasons that are sure to come to us all. Psalm 42 is one of those passages that speaks directly into our struggles, whatever they may be. In this sermon let the author of Psalm 42 help you to face struggle well.

In this sermon we look at what is know as Redemption, where we see Jesus restoring what was broken by sin. Also, as we have been doing, will continue to see how the theme of God's glory and our joy in Him fit into this part of the Bible.

In this sermon we look at what is called the Fall of Creation, where Adam and Eve reject God's glory and exchange it for other things. However, even in the midst of this horrible event called the Fall we see God's plan still at work.

This sermon is the first in a series on the topic of God's glory and our joy. In this sermon we look at the Bible through the lens of Creation. In the beginning when God created all things He had in mind first and foremost His own glory. This is not a bad thing though because in beholding God's glory we find our greatest joy.

Many of us, if not all of us, view work as something that is necessary for life but not something that is good or to be enjoyed in and of itself. This is kind of view though is not Biblical nor is it good. In this sermon Jared Hawthorne deals with some of the wrong views of work and then shows how to see work correctly by using the the lens of Proverbs and of the Gospel.

Throughout this book Jonah has struggled with self-righteousness, selfishness, idolatry, and other sins. But here at the end of the book God once again patiently rebukes and corrects Jonah. Does he finally learn this time? Yes, he does. Another question that arises at this point though is this: will we learn with him?

God knows our hearts better than we do and He knows what we need better than we do. So, it's often the case that God will put us in different kinds of situations in order to expose some form of sin our lives. This is what we see Him doing to Jonah here at the beginning of chapter 4. Jonah has some sin tucked deep within his heart and God is bringing it to the surface so that it may be seen and rep...

Here in chapter 3 of Jonah we see the Lord's power to save even the most unexpected people, the Ninevites. What makes this event even more astonishing is that God uses a stubborn prophet and a short sermon to accomplish this salvation. This work of salvation is indeed great! But, it is only a glimpse and taste of the salvation to come in Christ.

Jonah was cast into the sea and was sinking down into the depths. As sank helplessly he cried out to the Lord to save him and the Lord did. The Lord saved Jonah with a fish. Now, as Jonah is in the belly of this fish he prays to God with thanksgiving. In this prayer we see that it is often when we are at the bottom that we receive a clear vision of who God is and who we are.

God loves to use what may seem strange and even foolish to us so that we will boast only in Him. This episode of Jonah getting swallowed by this fish of salvation is no different. God is putting His glory on display while also pointing us to the cross.