Truth for God's Church

In this sermon from 1 Corinthians 7:8-16, Pastor Jon English explains Paul’s instructions to 4 different groups of people in Corinth: the unmarried, the married, those believers married to an unbeliever who will stay, and those believers married to an unbeliever who wants to leave.

In this sermon from Hebrews 4:14, Pastor Jon English explains how Old Testament priests functioned and pointed toward Christ, how Christ fulfills all those roles, and how believers are called into priestly service under Christ.

In this sermon from Ephesians 2:20, Pastor Jon English explains what an apostle was, and shows how the Apostolic faith is fixed, bounded, needs guarding, accords with godliness, is found in God’s word, and is clear.

In this sermon from Ephesians 4:5, Pastor Jon English explains the foundation for the church’s catholicity, the evidence of the church’s catholicity, and the fruit of the church’s catholicity.

In this sermon from John 17, Pastor Jon English explains how the church both IS holy, and the church IS TO BE holy. He also explains some unbiblical means of pursuing holiness.

In this sermon from John 17, Pastor Jon English explains how the church both IS united, and should seek to be united. Further, the unity of the church is based on God’s sovereign revelation, grounded on the word, is analogous to the unity of God, and is essential to the church’s mission.

In this sermon from 1 Corinthians 7:1-7, Pastor Jon English explains Paul’s logic for how couples should relate and remain faithful to their marital obligations.

In this sermon from 1 Corinthians 6:12-20, Pastor Jon English explains 8 principles that Paul gives believers to aid them in their pursuit of holiness, especially holiness expressed in their bodies.

In this sermon from 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Pastor Jon English explains how we are born outside of God’s kingdom, but may enter into it by faith in the Christ who has washed, sanctified, and justified His bride through his work of salvation.

In this sermon from 1 Corinthians 6:1-8, Pastor Jon English explains how believers can be tempted to sue and defraud one another when we forget who we are in Christ, and what our calling is as followers of Christ.

In this sermon from 1 Corinthians 5:6-13, pastor Jon English explains how Paul uses the Old Testament picture of Passover to argue for believers to cleanse out the leaven of sin wherever they may find it.

In this sermon from 1 Corinthians 5:1-5, pastor Jon English explains how tolerated sexual sin will eventually lead to its celebration. Christians are instead to be pure and holy, just as God is holy.

In this sermon from Romans 12:3-10, Pastor Jon English explains how the New Testament assumes that church members be Converted, Consecrated, and Connected.

In this sermon from 1 Corinthians 4:8-21, Pastor Jon English explains how Paul uses Irony to expose the Corinthian believers’ blind spot, how his example is worthy of Imitation, and how he Instructs us toward humility and by his example.

In this sermon from 1 Corinthians 4:6-7, Pastor Jon English explains how Paul’s exhortations to the Corinthians give us a a principle to be learned, a pitfall to be avoided, and a posture to be maintained.

In this sermon Pastor Jon English explains Paul’s role, Paul’s judge, and Paul’s comfort, and how all of those connect to Christ.

In this sermon Pastor Jon English explains how self-deception, pride, and boasting in men is inconsistent with the reality of who we are, and especially who we are in Christ, for in Christ we are heirs to all things.

In this sermon 1 Corinthians 1-3, in which Pastor Jon English starts off a series of sermons on personal evangelism, we see that Paul emphasized 4 C’s: the catalyst of evangelism (i.e., the gospel), the content of evangelism, that he exhibited the contentment of an evangelist of God, and that he kept in mind the community of God.

In this sermon 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, Pastor Jon English explains how the church is the new temple of God, which means the church is the place of God’s special revealed presence, is holy and pure, is divinely made and ordered, and is only entered through the work of a priest. Furthermore, the new temple is also protected by God himself, and thus we would be warned to not tear it down through sin o...

In this sermon 1 Corinthians 3:10-15, Pastor Jon English explains how the church’s one foundation is Jesus Christ, how every believer much choose on what foundation he will build, and how he will build upon that foundation.

In this short sermon from Leviticus 16, Pastor Jon English explains the connections between Aaron’s work on the Day of the Atonement in the Tabernacle to the Priestly work of Christ on the Cross. Christ is our Mercy Seat of Atonement and our Scapegoat who removes our sins far from us.

In this sermon from 1 Corinthians 3:5-9, Pastor Jon English explains how disunity in the church can be battled by having a proper view of our human leaders and a proper view of God.

In this sermon Pastor Jon English explains how believers ought to mature in their faith, avoiding the common temptations toward strife and jealousy, and instead pursue the spiritual fruit of peaceableness.

In this sermon Pastor Jon English explains how the mind of Christ changes how we view our lives, emboldens humble service to others, removes our snobbery, and unties our tongues.

In this sermon Pastor Jon English explains the inability of natural man, the ability of the spiritual man, and how the work of the Holy Spirit ought to propel us toward holiness, purity, and peaceableness.