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Pentecost 2024: in which we meditate together on what "keeping in step with the Spirit" is and is not. Imagine a dance routine in which one of the dancers can’t hear the beat, and so he’s out of step the whole time. In this passage, the Apostle Paul uses images like this to talk about how the Holy Spirit works in the lives of believers. Verse 16, “But I say, walk by the Spirit…” And verse 25, “…let us also keep in step with the Spirit.” Today we learn that the Holy Spirit not only gives us li...

Deut. 8:7–10 Isa. 65:17–25 Jn. 14:18–24 Rev. 21:1–8 Believers already enjoy the blessings of the New Covenant. But there is still much more to come in what theologians call the "consummation." In this message on Covenant Theology, we learn what Scripture teaches about the final state of God's people, place, and presence.

Gen. 12:1–3 Ezek. 37:24–28 Lk 22:14–23 Heb. 7:20–28 In New Covenant, God has brought about what he had promised all along, by the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. And the Holy Spirit takes the benefits of these things that Christ has done, and gives them to the believer. This sermon focuses on three ways in which the New Covenant is new and better than what has come before.

Genesis 5 jumps back in time all the way to Adam (v. 1) and then forward in time as it follows his godly descendants all the way to Noah (v. 28). In other words, ch. 5 tells us why there’s a remnant of godliness in an otherwise wicked world as the flood approaches in ch. 6ff. It is through Adam, through Seth, and through Enoch that God has preserved the faith and true worship. This otherwise obscure chapter of the Bible teaches us that even though you walk in the valley of the shadow of death...

Psalm 24 is an Old Testament picture of the ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. It teaches us that our ascent to the presence of God is only through Christ, the Man of clean hands and pure heart. In this homily to commemorate Ascension Day 2024, we meditate upon what it means to seek the face of Jesus, whose human nature is truly away from us in heaven.

Lev. 26:9–13 Jer. 31:31–37 Jn. 6:45–51 Heb. 8:1–13 In this message, we learn what the New Covenant looked like from the perspective of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. The New Covenant is that unfolding of the grand Covenant of Grace in which we live in this age, since Christ has come and the Holy Spirit has been poured out from heaven. And in this covenant, the people are forgiven, the place is abundant, and the presence of God is personal and powerful.