New Birth

Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus reveals that sinners must be born from above by the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit. God grants life through Christ, producing faith, repentance, love, obedience, warfare against sin, and perseverance in

New Birth

Proverbs 1:7 teaches that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of true wisdom and knowledge. The message contrasts foolish rejection of God with the gospel-shaped reverence that draws sinners near through Christ.

New Birth

Philippians 2 holds together the twin truths of God's sovereign work in sanctification and the believer's real responsibility to obey. The sermon encourages Christians to work out what God has worked in, while warning that moral effort

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Hebrews 4:1-4 begins the call to make sure of entering God's rest through true saving faith. The sermon urges hearers to submit to biblical self-examination and not resist the Spirit's work.

New Birth

1 Timothy 6 closes the Act Like Men weekend by calling men to examine whether they are truly in Christ. The message presses the need to be born again and points sinners to mercy in the Lord Jesus.

New Birth

1 Timothy 6 opens the Act Like Men weekend with a call to become a true man of God through the new birth. The sermon urges self-examination and calls hearers to repent and believe the gospel.

New Birth

Acts 26 frames a testimony of conversion to Christ and the new birth. The message calls the church to understand conversion, bear witness, and make Christ's appeal to others as ambassadors.

New Birth

John 3 frames conversion as the sovereign work of God in the new birth, not a human achievement or religious improvement. The testimony calls hearers to see their need, come to Christ, and be made new by grace.

New Birth

Ephesians 2 teaches that sinners are spiritually dead and must be made alive by God, not merely trained into religious behavior. The message presses parents and the church to practice the doctrine of the new birth rather than trusting

New Birth

Tracing the connection between the new birth and Christ's bodily resurrection, the sermon presses hearers to examine whether the resurrection is merely a cultural Easter tradition to them or their actual, living hope for a new heart and

New Birth