The Need for a Church Confession

Working through the church's confession of faith, the message walks through Romans 8's assurances that nothing can separate believers from Christ's love, then closes the way of salvation by explaining glorification as the completion of

Continuing through the church's confession, the message explains sanctification as the cooperative work in which believers labor while God works in them, then walks through a list of vital signs from Scripture that mark a truly regenerate

Sanctification

Working from Galatians 2:16, the message defines justification as God's legal declaration of the believer as righteous through faith in Christ alone, distinguishing it from regeneration and summarizing the doctrine in the Reformation's

New Birth

Working through Romans 10 and Acts 2, the message explains that confession of Christ is not a condition of salvation but its inevitable outward expression, illustrated by a church member's own halting, Spirit-wrought path to assurance of

Working through Genesis 1-3 and Romans 5, the message explains that man was created sinless and unique among creation but fell into total depravity, and argues that a right understanding of the fall shapes how we view society, raise

Continuing the church's confession series, the message teaches that Scripture reveals one true God who is sovereign over the nations and yet exists eternally as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, warning that any distortion of this doctrine

God's Sovereignty

Introducing the church's doctrinal statement on Scripture, the message affirms the Bible as God's inspired, inerrant revelation and the final standard by which all human belief and conduct must be judged, while explaining why the church is