Sermons & Studies

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Christ-less Christianity

This exposition will focus on the sobering warning and gracious invitation Jesus gives to the self-sufficient 'Christians' in the city of Laodicea, in which Christians are warned of the danger of Christless Christianity and invited to repent of it eagerly.

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A Name Worth Having

In the letter to the church in Sardis, Jesus confronts a church that has become indistinguishable from the world around them. This exposition will focus on the need to concern ourselves more with pleasing Christ than with pleasing men.

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Confronting Spiritual Compromise

Christ's letter to the church in Pergamum highlights the urgency of confronting spiritual compromise in the church. This exposition will focus on the reasons for this urgency and what we must do to deal with compromise in the church rightly.

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God Sticks to His Man

This Sunday's sermon will focus on Genesis 13:1-18 and the separation between Abram and his nephew Lot. While the account of this separation may not seem like much more than a mere historical detail in the story of Abram, it actually reveals vital Gospel realities.

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To the Comfortable Christ-less Church

In this final sermon on the 7 letters of Christ to his churches in Revelation 2-3, we'll seek to hear what the Spirit says to us as he speaks to the comfortable and Christ-less church of Laodicea in Revelation 3:14-22. What sort of church keeps Jesus on the outside looking in (see v. 20)?

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To the Vibrant Lifeless Church

In this sermon, we'll dig into the sobering words of Christ to a church that looks very alive on the outside, but is very much dead on the inside. Revelation 3:1-6 is a letter to a vibrant [but] lifeless church, with convicting words that every Christian needs to hear.

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The Righteousness Jesus Requires

In this sermon on Matthew 5:17-48, we'll explore the kind of righteousness that Jesus requires of all who desire to live under his saving rule. What does Jesus mean when he says that we must have a righteousness that exceeds the scribes and the Pharisees to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matt 5:20)? What does that kind of righteousness look like? Those questions (and more) will be answered in this sermon.

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