Entering Heaven by Force [Family Worship lesson in Matthew 11:7–15]

Why did John need help? Matthew 11:7–15 looks forward to the morning sermon in public worship on the coming Lord’s Day. In these nine verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that every believer in this life still needs help from Christ, because the path to glory is a battle that requires zeal and strength and perseverance. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Helping Younger Women Avoid Spiritual Danger [Family Worship lesson in 1Timothy 5:11–16]

What’s a young woman to do? 1 Timothy 5:11–16 looks forward to the second reading in morning public worship on the coming Lord’s Day. In these six verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that young widows and young women should seek a life of God-designed labor to protect them from Satan and mature them. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Focusing on the Elderly in Reformation [Family Worship lesson in Titus 2:1–2]

What should a minister speak? Titus 2:1–2 looks forward to the second serial reading of in morning public worship on the coming Lord’s Day. In these two verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that ministers should speak not just sound doctrine, but application appropriate to the people, beginning with the elderly men. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

God's Triune Glory in Our Vivification [2023.07.19 Midweek Sermon in Romans 8:9–11]

We grow in pleasing God by the grace of the Triune God through union with Christ.

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Progressing Despite Persecution [Family Worship lesson in 2Timothy 3:10–15]

What can we expect from those who are in error in the church? 2Timothy 3:10–15 looks forward to the second serial reading of in morning public worship on the coming Lord’s Day. In these six verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that in Christ Jesus is every virtue in this life, with which will always come persecution from the impostors. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

How Mature Christians Relate to Other Believers [Family Worship lesson in 2Timothy 1:3–5]

What thanksgivings, desires, and joys should fill believers’ prayers for each other? 2Timothy 1:3–5 looks forward to the second reading in morning public worship on the coming Lord’s Day. In these three verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that believers are thankful for one another’s faith, desiring to see one another’s face, and rejoicing over one another’s fellowship.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Progressing Like Apollos: from Right Ideas and Morals to Knowing the Triune God in Christ [2023.02.12 Morning Sermon in Acts 18:24–28]

Apollos accurately knew some truth about Jesus and had been instructed in the Lord's way for us to live. But when Aquilla and Priscilla instructed him more accurately in the way of the Triune God, he came to know that it is God Himself from Whose grace we receive faith and repentance in Christ, through the Spirit.

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Helping Younger Women Avoid Spiritual Danger [Family Worship lesson in 1Timothy 5:11–16]

What’s a young woman to do? 1 Timothy 5:11–16 looks forward to the second reading in morning public worship on the coming Lord’s Day. In these six verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that young widows and young women should seek a life of God-designed labor to protect them from Satan and mature them. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Growth in Godliness, God's Way, for Christ's Servants and the Churches They Pastor [Family Worship lesson in 1Timothy 4:6–11]

How should ministers serve the brethren? 1Timothy 4:6–11 looks forward to the second reading in morning public worship on the coming Lord’s Day. In these six verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that ministers serve the brethren by teaching good Christology and commanding its application to life.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

The God of Provision [2022.12.14 Midweek Sermon in Romans 4:18–22]

Believers receive strength, faith, and righteousness from the same One from Whom father Abraham received them: the God of provision.

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How Christ's Spirit Grew the Churches [2022.11.20 Morning sermon in Acts 15:36–16:5]

The Spirit grew the church by follow-up ministry, fallible men, future ministers, and faithful maintenance of doctrine and practice.

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Means by Which the Spirit Strengthened Churches in Faith and Increased Them in Number [Family Worship lesson in Acts 15:35–16:5]

How does the Lord strengthen His church? Acts 15:36–16:5 looks forward to the morning sermon on the coming Lord’s Day. In these eleven verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that the Lord strengthens His church by His blessing upon follow-up ministry by partially sanctified men and the church’s unity in doctrine and practice. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

How the Lord Built and Sanctified One of the Greatest Churches Ever [2022.08.21 Morning Sermon in Acts 11:19–30]

The Spirit uses preaching, encouragement, and teaching to grace people to turn them to the Lord, continue them with the Lord, and conform them to the Lord.

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How Multitudes Were Converted to the Lord, Continued with the Lord, and Were Conformed to the Lord [Family Worship lesson in Acts 11:19–30]

What does Jesus use to build up His church on earth? Acts 11:19–30 looks forward to the morning sermon on the coming Lord’s Day. In these twelve verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that Jesus uses preaching, encouragement, and teaching to build His church.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Four Things to Do with the Word to Understand the Fear of the LORD [Family Worship lesson in Proverbs 2:1–2]

Pastor leads his family in a selection from “the Proverb of the day.” In these two verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us four of the things that we must do with the Word of the LORD if we wish to grow in the fear of the LORD.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Heavenly Glory in the Nitty Gritty Details of Life (Family Worship lesson in Colossians 1:24–29)

What does Christ’s glory have to do with our suffering, our calling, our learning, and our effort? Pastor leads his family in today’s “Hopewell @Home” passage. Colossians 1:24–29 prepares us for the second serial reading in morning public worship on the coming Lord’s Day. In these six verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us how Christ’s exaltation in glory marvelously connects to the nitty gritty details of believers’ everyday lives on earth.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

The Lord Is Our Sure, Exclusive, and Necessary Help (2021.09.26 Evening Sermon in 2Samuel 22:29–37)

Since the Lord gives us nothing that we can handle and nothing that He can't handle, the Lord is our help regardless of the circumstance, the only help that we can ever have, and such a necessary help that growth in faith is not growth in independence but growth into more complete dependence.(click audio title within player for a page where you can download mp3/pdf files of this sermon)

Meditation upon and Application of the Word of the God of the Peace (2021.08.01 Evening Sermon in Philippians 4:8–9)

The Lord's glorious Word is to be material for controlling the internal conversation of our hearts and minds, so that we may be transformed by it to offer our bodies as living sacrifices.(click audio title in player for a page where you can download mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Trusting the Lord Jesus for Being Like the Lord Jesus (2021.05.09 Evening Sermon in Philippians 2:19–24)

This Scripture teaches us to think and speak of our plans as something for which we are "trusting in the Lord Jesus." Therefore, we must plan to do that which serves Christ by serving His church. This is what the Philippians had seen Timothy learn from Paul, who had learned it from Christ. We must trust in the Lord Jesus to live lives of sacrifice for His church.

WCF 14.3.1 Varying Degrees of Saving Faith (2021.05.09 Sabbath School)

"This faith is different in degrees, weak or strong"