Truth that Transforms

Main Point: God, the author of life, created mankind male and female in His image. This provides the foundation for biblical sexual morality and the sanctity of every human life.

Main Point: In an interlude before the seventh trumpet, in the midst of the fury and horror of divine judgment, a mighty angel and a little book provide great encouragement and hope for God’s people.

Main Point: Each of the first four trumpet judgments affect the physical universe in some way; but with the sounding of the fifth and sixth trumpets, the focus will shift from the physical to the spiritual realm when demons arise from the abyss and armies come from the east. Both will serve God’s sovereign purposes.

Main Point: In Psalm 110, David depicts Christ in a fivefold light and shows how the kingship of the Messiah connects with His priesthood.

Main Point: The true meaning of Christmas is opened to us 700 years before the birth of Christ in a passage that describes how the Savior will die in our place to save us from our sins.

Main Point: When Jesus breaks the seventh seal, both the redeemed and the angels are reduced to silence as they see the magnitude of God’s final wrath up to the triumphal return of Christ.

Main Point: God’s divine initiative to save us from our sin causes us to rejoice in God.

Main Point: Revelation 7 is an interlude between the sixth and seventh seals to answer the question, “Will people be saved during the Tribulation?”

Main Point: John records what it will be like when the fifth and sixth seals are opened and the wrath of the Lamb comes.

Main Point: The psalmist thanks God for His person, His works, and His everlasting love.

Main Point: John records the opening of the first four seals; and as each seal is opened, one of the four living creatures summons a rider on a horse.

Main Point: John is given a vision into heaven and weeps because he realizes that God’s glorious eternal plan cannot be completed until the scroll is opened. The choirs of heaven sing, “Worthy is the Lamb!” because Jesus alone meets all of the qualifications to take the scroll from the Father’s hand.

Main Point: John is given a vision into heaven and tells us who is on the throne, what is going on around the throne, and what is directed toward the throne.

Main Point: Jesus confronts the church at Laodicea for their lukewarm faith and provides promises for those who repent and passionately follow Him.

Main Point: Psalm 23 draws our eyes back to the compassionate Shepherd of our souls. The truths within this Psalm provide hope and comfort to those experiencing severe trials, suffering illness, or facing the brevity of life.

Main Point: Jesus commends and comforts the faithful church that lives for His glory and is a channel of His grace and truth to others.

Main Point: Jesus is the Great Physician who provides His prognosis of a dying church, the prescription for revival, and the promises for the repentant.

Main Point: Jesus deals with the church in Thyatira that tolerated sin and He shows us how to be faithful to Him.

Main Point: Jesus deals with the compromising church in Pergamum and shows us how to be faithful to His truth.

Main Point: Love is the distinguishing mark of the body of Christ and essential to maintaining unity.

Main Point: The writer of Hebrews provides a stern warning against doubt and the antidote to doubt, so that we will walk in genuine faith.

Main Point: God created Christians for community, saving them into the fellowship of the Church. As the body of Christ, we live together as family, missionaries, and servants.