Sermons — Page 66

Hebrews warns believers not to drift from Christ while the truths of the Reformation call the church to stand on Scripture, Christ alone, faith alone, grace alone, and God’s glory alone. The camp report urges the next generation to carry

Covering John 18:12-18, the message traces Jesus' first trial before Annas alongside Peter's initial denial, drawing a parallel between the Jewish leaders' grasping for power and prestige and similar corruption in churches today, and

John 18 presents Jesus as fully surrendered to arrest and fully in control as he moves toward the cross. Peter resists with man's plans, but Jesus submits to the Father's cup for the redemption of his people.

Preached for Father's Day, this message calls men to be born-again fathers who lead their homes and families in committed membership to a local church rather than settling for merely cultural Christianity. The call moves from personal

New Birth

Concluding John 17, the message shows that all believers, not only the eleven disciples, truly know God through Christ, and closes by pointing to the imperishable heavenly inheritance that should draw Christians' hearts away from earthly

Working through John 17:20-23, the message presents the unity between Christ and the Father as the model for unity among believers, warning that a church without this Spirit-wrought oneness will slowly decay while a genuinely unified church

Church UnityGospel Witness

Working through John 17:16-19, the sermon links Jesus sending the disciples into the world to the Great Commission and shows that their sanctification would come through real hardship, not in spite of it. It presses the church to see

Continuing through John 17:11-15, the sermon focuses on Jesus interceding for the disciples' protection, unity, and joy as He prepares to leave them in a hostile world. It presses the point that believers are kept by the Father for the

Moving into the intercessory section of John 17, the sermon traces how the disciples received, knew, and believed the word Christ gave them, and wrestles honestly with the mystery of divine sovereignty and human responsibility in salvation.

Working through John 17:1-3, the sermon shows Jesus asking the Father for glory so that the Son's authority to grant eternal life would result in the Father and Son both being glorified through the salvation of sinners. The burden is that