The Power and Prayer of Humility Under Fire [2024.06.02 Evening Sermon in Numbers 12]

The Lord will vindicate His own, which liberates them from fear to pray for their enemies

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The Heart and End of the Mischievous [Family Worship lesson in Proverbs 6:12–15]

Pastor teaches his family a selection from “the Proverb of the day.” In these four verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that the actions of the wicked overflow from a heart that God sees and that God will Judge.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Entrusting Our Dignity to Christ [2024.02.11 Morning Sermon in Matthew 5:38–42]

Christians ought to be like Christ in entrusting their own interests entirely unto the Lord.

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Entrusting Dignity, Rights, Liberty, and Prosperity to Christ [Family Worship lesson in Matthew 5:38–42]

How does a Christian respond to mistreatment? Matthew 5:38–42 prepares us for the morning sermon on the Lord’s Day. In these five verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that Christians respond to mistreatment not in the fleshly resentment of the scribe but in the strength and freedom of resting upon Christ.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

The God Whose Own Empathy Demands Ours [2022.09.04 Evening Sermon in Exodus 22:21–27]

To God, we are all needy, so He reminds us that He listens to the needy among us. They are not without an Advocate, so we must have a special care for them and a special empathy for them.

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Living before God's Face for True Blessedness in this World and the Next (Family Worship lesson in Proverbs 11:16–21)

Pastor leads his family in a selection from “the Proverb of the day.” In these six verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that since God is just and wise, and has secured blessedness for believers in Christ, the path of true blessedness is to believe in Christ, and then to live by that faith.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Famous Last Words: Divine Revelation, Christ's Reign, and Glorious Revenge (2021.10.17 Evening Sermon in 2Samuel 23:1–7)

David's last words point us to the every-word-God's-very-own nature of the Scripture, the light-after-darkness and life-after-death reign of Christ, and the perfectly timed and executed utter burning of the wicked.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this sermon)

Loving God's Glory as Our Avenger and Deliverer (Family Worship lesson in 2Samuel 22:47–51)

How are believers to think about and respond to enmity and trouble? Pastor leads his family in today’s “Hopewell @Home” passage. 2Samuel 22:47–51 prepares us for the Evening Sermon on the coming Lord’s Day. In these five verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that enmity is an occasion for God to be glorified in avenging us, and trouble is an occasion for God to be glorified in delivering us. When we love His glory and are sure of it as the outcome, we are freed to trust Him, love our enemies, and rejoice in the midst of suffering.(click audio title within player for a page where you can download mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

The Goodness and Glory of God's Wrath (Prayer Meeting Lesson in Psalm 7)

The justness (toward us) of God's wrath, v1–5
The equity (toward enemies) of God's wrath, v6–8
The certainty of God's wrath, v9–10
The fury of God's wrath, v11–13
The aptness of God's wrath, v14–16
The praiseworthiness of God's wrath, v17

Defeating the Deceptiveness of Pride and Passion by Devotion to Principle (Family Worship in 2Samuel 3:12–39)

How would the Lord bring David the kingdom? Pastor leads his family in today’s “Hopewell @Home” passage. In these twenty-eight verses, we see Abner’s pride in having positioned himself powerfully to consolidate the kingdom under David. The Lord does do it by using Abner—at his funeral? And we see Joab making show of concern about kingdom security, although the text makes clear that he is really being moved by fleshly revenge. Still, the Lord uses him—by humiliating him as the second-mourner-in-charge at the funeral of the man he murdered! Ultimately for David, the Lord used his commitment to do what is right before the eyes of the people to give him favor in the eyes of all the tribes through an action that ended up being exactly opposite what usually happens during regime-change.