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  1. 4d ago

    Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst | Matthew 5:6

    Every one of us has felt hunger and thirst. Few of us have ever come close to starving. But Jesus takes the most basic function of the body and points it at the deepest need of the soul: blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. In this message, we reach the hinge of the Beatitudes, the point where being emptied (poor in spirit, mourning, meek) turns into being filled. We look at three dimensions of righteousness, given, lived, and coming, and press into why so many of us are spiritually bloated and starving at the same time, gorging on career, validation, and entertainment while our souls waste away. Using John 6 and Jesus’ rebuke of the crowd that wanted more loaves instead of the Bread of Life, we ask a convicting question: do you want the meal, or just the toy? In this message: Why hunger and thirst are the one experience every person shares Righteousness given, lived, and coming Jesus’ own hunger and thirst for righteousness in the wilderness Spiritual gluttony and drunkenness — feeding on good things made into gods Daily manna vs. rotting manna Application: wanting Jesus vs. wanting His benefits Scripture referenced: Matthew 5:3-10, Matthew 4:3-4, Matthew 6:11, Matthew 13:45-46, John 4:13-14, 34, John 6:26, 35, 66, Romans 3:10, Romans 8:16, Isaiah 55:2, Isaiah 61:3, 10-11, Luke 15:22, Genesis 3:6-10, Exodus 16:20, 2 Peter 3:13, Proverbs 23:20-21, Deuteronomy 21:20, Esther 4:16, Psalm 34:8, James 2:10 Silver City Church is a confessionally Reformed congregation devoted to the gospel of grace, the authority of Scripture, and the ordinary means God uses to build His church. We’d love to have you join us. 🔔 Subscribe for weekly sermons, verse-by-verse Bible teaching, and Reformed theology applied to everyday life. 📖 Study guide and reflection questions for this passage: https://www.silvercityky.com/blog/matthew-5-6 ⛪ Visit us: silvercityky.com #Beatitudes #SermonOnTheMount #ReformedTheology #ExpositoryPreaching #BibleTeaching #Sermon #GospelOfGrace

    Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst | Matthew 5:6

  2. 4d ago

    WCF 20.1-20.4 — Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience

    If we’re saved by grace and not by keeping the law, does that mean Christians can do whatever they want? This week we open Westminster Confession Chapter 20 and work through the scope of Christian liberty, freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, the curse of the law, bondage to this present evil world, the dominion of sin, the sting of death, and the grave, along with free access to God as His child, obedience flowing from love rather than slavish fear. We look at why this liberty is never liberty from the law as God’s standard, but liberty into it, why God alone is Lord of the conscience, and how to tell the difference between open-handed matters of Christian freedom (food, drink, clothing, disputable traditions) and matters where Scripture speaks plainly and leaves no room for private revision. Using a comparison between the American and French Revolutions, we talk through what happens when liberty of conscience gets twisted into either tyranny over others or outright rebellion against lawful authority, and where Christians today can find themselves pulled toward either extreme. Scripture referenced: Galatians 3:13, 1 Peter 2:16, Acts 5:29, James (the law of liberty), Psalm 119, 1 Thessalonians (living peaceably) Silver City Church is a confessionally Reformed congregation devoted to the gospel of grace, the authority of Scripture, and the ordinary means God uses to build His church. Subscribe for weekly teaching, verse-by-verse Bible study, and Reformed theology applied to everyday life.

    WCF 20.1-20.4 — Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience

  3. Oct 11

    Blessed Are the Meek | Matthew 5:5

    Meekness gets confused with weakness more than almost any other virtue in Scripture. We picture the pushover, the quiet kid who never speaks up, the man with no backbone. But Jesus calls Himself meek, and He’s also the one who turned over tables in the temple. So what is meekness, really? In this message, we work through the third beatitude and recover meekness as self-mastery, not self-erasure, the ability to govern one’s own passions so that boldness and zeal get aimed at the right things. We look at two opposite ditches on either side of meekness: grabbing, like Eve reaching for the fruit or Napoleon conquering half of Europe out of fear of being forgotten, and apathy, like Adam standing silent while sin unfolded in front of him. And we ask what it means to inherit the earth, an inheritance never earned, only ever given through a death, the death of the King who was gentle and lowly in heart. In this message: Why meekness is not weakness, stoicism, or self-abasement Thomas Watson and Matthew Henry on meekness as self-command Jesus as the perfect embodiment of meekness Two ditches: Eve’s grasping and Adam’s passivity What it means to inherit, not seize, the earth Napoleon’s reported deathbed reflection on the kingdom of Christ Scripture referenced: Matthew 5:3-10, Matthew 11:29, Matthew 23, Matthew 6:4, John 11:35, John 2:15, Mark 14:36, Isaiah 53:7, Isaiah 61:7, Isaiah 66, Psalm 2:4, Genesis 1:28, Genesis 3:1-10, Romans 4, Romans 8:32, Galatians 5:22-23, Ephesians 1:11,14, Titus 3:7, 1 Peter 1:4, 1 Peter 2:23, Revelation 21:27 Silver City Church is a confessionally Reformed congregation devoted to the gospel of grace, the authority of Scripture, and the ordinary means God uses to build His church. We’d love to have you join us. 🔔 Subscribe for weekly sermons, verse-by-verse Bible teaching, and Reformed theology applied to everyday life. 📖 Study guide and reflection questions for this passage: https://www.silvercityky.com/blog/matthew-5-5 ⛪ Visit us: silvercityky.com #Beatitudes #SermonOnTheMount #ReformedTheology #ExpositoryPreaching #BibleTeaching #Sermon #GospelOfGrace

    Blessed Are the Meek | Matthew 5:5

  4. Oct 11

    Sunday School: WCF 19.5-19.7 — The Three Uses of the Law

    If believers aren’t saved by keeping the law, why does Scripture spend so much time on it, and why does the longest chapter in the Bible, Psalm 119, read like a love song to it? This week we finish Westminster Confession Chapter 19 by working through the law’s three uses. We look at the law as a mirror, exposing sin and driving us to Christ; as a restraint, curbing wickedness both in believers and in civil society; and as a guide, the use the Reformed tradition considers principal, showing redeemed people how to live in grateful response to the Father who saved them. Along the way we compare how Lutheran and Roman Catholic traditions handle these same uses differently, and talk through why “saved unto the law” is not the same thing as “saved by the law,” and why a heart with the law written on it comes to delight in it rather than resent it. Scripture referenced: Matthew 5:17, James 2:10, Psalm 119, Jeremiah 31:33, Ezekiel 36, Isaiah 49 Silver City Church is a confessionally Reformed congregation devoted to the gospel of grace, the authority of Scripture, and the ordinary means God uses to build His church. Subscribe for weekly teaching, verse-by-verse Bible study, and Reformed theology applied to everyday life.

    Sunday School: WCF 19.5-19.7 — The Three Uses of the Law

  5. Oct 4

    Matthew 5:4 | Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

    We live in the most comfortable, indulgent society in history, and we are still this sad. We numb it with antidepressants, food, doom-scrolling, anything but looking it in the face. Jesus' second beatitude cuts straight through that instinct: blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. In this message, Pastor Zach Hill looks at mourning over sin as the natural extension of poverty of spirit, the grief that leads to real repentance rather than mere regret. Using Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov, Huxley's Brave New World, and the contrast Paul draws in 2 Corinthians 7 between godly and worldly grief, we walk through three kinds of mourning, two counterfeits and one true, and ask which one actually describes your relationship to your own sin. This isn't a call to wallow. It's a call to stop numbing what only the cross can heal. In this message: Our culture's refusal to sit with sadness, and what it has in common with Brave New World Mourning as repentance, not mere sorrow Contrition vs. attrition Three snapshots: despairing mourning, natural (hypocritical) mourning, and gracious mourning 2 Corinthians 7:10-13 on godly grief that leads to salvation without regret Application: you don't have to numb your sin, and you don't have to pay for it Scripture referenced: Matthew 5:3-10, Genesis 37:34, 2 Samuel 18:33, Ecclesiastes 7:2, Zechariah 12:10, Acts 2:37, Acts 9:31, Isaiah 53:3, 5, Psalm 119:71, 136, Psalm 126:5-6, John 16:20, John 20:11-18, 2 Corinthians 7:10-13 Silver City Church is a confessionally Reformed congregation devoted to the gospel of grace, the authority of Scripture, and the ordinary means God uses to build His church. We'd love to have you join us. 🔔 Subscribe for weekly sermons, verse-by-verse Bible teaching, and Reformed theology applied to everyday life. 📖 Study guide and reflection questions for this passage: https://www.silvercityky.com/blog/matthew-5-4 ⛪ Visit us: silvercityky.com #Beatitudes #SermonOnTheMount #ReformedTheology #ExpositoryPreaching #BibleTeaching #Sermon #GospelOfGrace #Repentance

    Matthew 5:4 | Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

  6. Oct 4

    Sunday School: WCF 19.1-19.4 — The Three Kinds of Law and the Principle of General Equity

    Is the Old Testament law just done away with, or is there more going on when Scripture calls something "abrogated"? This week we open Westminster Confession Chapter 19 and work through how God's people, saved by grace, are meant to rightly understand and use God's law. We trace the law back before Sinai to the garden itself, where Adam was given a covenant of works with life promised for obedience, and walk through the three categories Scripture gives us: moral law (binding on everyone, everywhere, always, summarized in the Ten Commandments and in loving God and neighbor), ceremonial law (fulfilled, not discarded, in Christ), and civil law (specific to Israel as a nation-state, yet still carrying lasting principle). That lasting principle is what the Confession calls "general equity," and we spend the second half of class putting it into practice, working through Old Testament commands that sound strange on the surface, a parapet on a roof, leaving the edges of a field for the poor, not muzzling an ox, not boiling a kid in its mother's milk, and asking what unchanging principle each one still teaches us today. Scripture referenced: Genesis 2:16-17, Matthew 22:37-40, Hebrews 10:1, Deuteronomy 4:6, Deuteronomy 22:8, Leviticus 19:9-10, Deuteronomy 24:6, Deuteronomy 22:10, Romans 2, Psalm 119 Silver City Church is a confessionally Reformed congregation devoted to the gospel of grace, the authority of Scripture, and the ordinary means God uses to build His church. Subscribe for weekly teaching, verse-by-verse Bible study, and Reformed theology applied to everyday life.

    Sunday School: WCF 19.1-19.4 — The Three Kinds of Law and the Principle of General Equity

  7. Sep 27

    Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit | Matthew 5:3

    The kingdoms of this world tell you blessedness comes from what you have. Jesus starts His most famous sermon by saying the opposite: blessedness begins with destitution. Not "blessed are the wealthy" or "blessed are the accomplished," but "blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." In this message, Pastor Zach begins walking through the Beatitudes by reading all eight primary statements together and noticing the inclusio that frames them, the kingdom of heaven bookending verses 3 and 10. Then we sit in the first one. We look at what poverty of spirit actually is and isn't, how pride shows up loudly at the party and just as often quietly behind a locked door, and why Jesus insists that the empty are the only ones with room enough for His kingdom. Using Thomas Watson, C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce, and the Pharisee and tax collector of Luke 18, we ask a simple but searching question: are you full of yourself, or are you finally empty enough to be filled? In this message: The inclusio structure of the eight BeatitudesWhy Jesus starts with poverty of spirit, not action or moralityLoud pride vs. quiet, isolated prideThe Pharisee and the tax collector (Luke 18:9-14)C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce and the ghost who won't let go of his own righteousnessApplication: true vs. false poverty of spiritScripture referenced: Matthew 5:3-10, Isaiah 61:1, Proverbs 18:1, 12, Luke 18:9-14, Matthew 12:43-45, Matthew 25:14-30, Zechariah 4:6, Romans 14:17, Hebrews 12:28, Philippians 2:1-11 Silver City Church is a confessionally Reformed congregation devoted to the gospel of grace, the authority of Scripture, and the ordinary means God uses to build His church. We'd love to have you join us. 🔔 Subscribe for weekly sermons, verse-by-verse Bible teaching, and Reformed theology applied to everyday life. 📖 Study guide and reflection questions for this passage: https://www.silvercityky.com/blog/matthew-5-3 ⛪ Visit us: silvercityky.com #Beatitudes #SermonOnTheMount #PoorInSpirit #ReformedTheology #ExpositoryPreaching #BibleTeaching #Sermon #GospelOfGrace

    Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit | Matthew 5:3

  8. Sep 27

    Sunday School: A Testimony of God's Faithfulness | Psalm 32 & 34

    This week we set aside our regular study of the Westminster Confession for something the Confession itself points us toward: a living example of the perseverance and assurance we've been studying together. A beloved member of our congregation, Patrick Kendall, shares his testimony of the Lord's kindness across seasons of deep struggle and restoration, from years of substance abuse and a painful fall after a decade of sobriety, to repentance, reconciliation with his family, and the steady, patient grace of God carrying him through it all. Grounded in Psalm 32 and Psalm 34, this is a story about what it means to be forgiven and to know it, and how God uses ordinary means, His Word, the sacraments, and the body of the church, to hold a person fast even when their own strength runs out. This is a testimony of everything we have been studying in the Westminster thus dar. Scripture referenced: Psalm 32, Psalm 34:1-9, Luke 15:17-24 Silver City Church is a confessionally Reformed congregation devoted to the gospel of grace, the authority of Scripture, and the ordinary means God uses to build His church. Subscribe for weekly teaching, verse-by-verse Bible study, and Reformed theology applied to everyday life.

    Sunday School: A Testimony of God's Faithfulness | Psalm 32 & 34
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