Getting a Good Heart [Family Worship lesson in Proverbs 16:16–19]

What are the prerequisites for godly speech? Proverbs 16:16–19 looks forward to the midweek sermon. In these four verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that wisdom, uprightness, and humility are the prerequisites for godly speech.

The devotional emphasizes that godly, beneficial speech stems from a heart cultivated through wisdom, uprightness, and humility, rather than material wealth or association with the proud. Drawing from Proverbs 16, the message clarifies that true wisdom and understanding, gained through fellowship with God, are far more valuable than gold or silver, while departing from evil requires a steadfast commitment to righteousness and a humble spirit content in God's provision. Ultimately, the speaker underscores that conforming to the example of Christ—who embodies wisdom, righteousness, and humility—is the path to cultivating a heart that overflows with good and godly speech.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Living Before God Rightly [Family Worship lesson in Proverbs 11:1–8]

What is righteousness, and what does it do? Proverbs 11:1–8 looks forward to the sermon in this week’s midweek meeting. In these eight verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that righteousness is a right standing with God, and it directly benefits and delivers the upright man. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Kiss the Son [2024.10.13 Evening Sermon in Numbers 22:36–24:25]

You are either with Christ, or against Him; this is the choice between eternal life and eternal death.

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The Self-Destroying Perversity of Pride [Family Worship lesson in Proverbs 11:2–6]

Pastor teaches his family a selection from “the Proverb of the day.” In these five verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that all sin has pride at its root and self-destruction as its fruit.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

How Jesus Completes Us [2024.01.07 Morning Sermon in Matthew 5:17–20]

Jesus, the great Fulfiller of all Scripture, makes to whom the kingdom already belongs fit for entrance to the kingdom of heaven by completing His sanctifying work in them.

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God’s Sovereign Salvation [2024.01.03 Midweek Sermon in Romans 10:9–13]

God's sovereign salvation will always include what is needed, will always be completed, and is for every type of needy sinner

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Exceedingly Glad to Be Persecuted [Family Worship lesson in Matthew 5:10–16]

How should we respond to persecution? Matthew 5:10–16 prepares us for the morning sermon on the Lord’s Day. In these seven verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that we should rejoice and keep shining, whenever we are persecuted for Christ.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Blessed Hunger from Jesus, Satisfied Fully in Jesus [2023.12.03 Morning Sermon in Matthew 5:6]

Believers get a new hunger from Jesus that is satisfied by/upon Jesus.

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Is Predestination Right? [2023.11.22 Midweek Sermon in Romans 9:14–18]

God is both righteous and merciful and compassionate to save from among sinners who all deserve to be hardened.

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The Son Who Fulfills All Righteousness [2023.10.22 Morning Sermon in Matthew 3:17–4:11]

Jesus is the great and true Adam, the great and true Israel, and the great and true David, Who Himself has obeyed righteously and perfectly as the perfect and forever humanity, the perfect and forever church, and the perfect and forever King.

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Triune Hope for New Hearts [2023.10.15 Morning Sermon in Matthew 3:13–17]

Jesus is God the Son, Who became a human Son, so that a new humanity—a redeemed humanity in Him—might have God's own righteousness.

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Christ Is the Point of All Prophecy and History [2023.09.17 Morning Sermon in Matthew 2:12–23]

Electing love sent Jesus to save us by being the opposite of what we are, bringing the opposite of what we deserve, and bearing the opposite of what He deserves.

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The King of the Grace Empire [2023.03.29 Midweek Sermon in Romans 5:21]

Every impulse of love toward God and obedience toward His law shows that the believer is under the reign of grace—an eternal empire that has Christ as Emperor.

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Christ Shown Forth in Divine Strength, Righteousness, and Love [2023.01.25 Midweek Sermon in Romans 5:6–8]

The gospel is not only the power of God for salvation and the revelation of the righteousness of God through faith, but the demonstration of God's love, and the display of Christ as this God!

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The Gospel As Demonstration of Christ's Strength, Righteousness, and Love [Family Worship lesson in Romans 5:6–8]

What keeps us glorying in God’s glory and even in our tribulations? Romans 5:6–8 looks forward to the sermon in this week’s midweek meeting. In these three verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that our total dependence upon Christ's strength, righteousnes, and love in the gospel keeps us from glorying in self. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

What Faith Contributes to Our Salvation [Family Worship lesson in Romans 4:5–8]

What does a believer contribute to his righteousness or blessedness? Romans 4:5–8 looks forward to the devotional in this week’s midweek meeting. In these four verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that faith must be the only instrument of our justification, because God justifies the ungodly one who does not work.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

How Abraham's Boasting Was Excluded: More Help for Excluding Our Own [2022.11.16 Midweek sermon in Romans 4:1–4]

The righteousness that is truly ours in Christ comes as an accounting of grace, rather than the repaying of debt, we know that our faith is not a work, and we have no room at all for boasting.

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Christ Set Forth as God: God's Righteousness Triply Displayed [2022.10.19 Midweek Sermon in Romans 3:25–26]

In Christ's fully atoning work, God displayed the greatness of His righteousness, the very righteousness that is accounted to those who believe in Jesus.

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Three Demonstrations in the Gospel that Drive Us to Christ for Righteousness [Family Worship lesson in Romans 3:25–26]

What was being exhibited at the cross? Romans 3:25–26 looks forward to the sermon in the midweek prayer meeting. In these two verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that in Christ’s fully atoning work, God displayed the greatness of His righteousness, the very righteousness that is accounted to those who believe in Jesus.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness—Free, Costly Glory in Christ [2022.10.12 Midweek Sermon in Romans 3:23–24]

God gives His own perfect righteousness, to those who are utterly destitute without it, in Christ alone

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