Christ Church (Moscow, ID)

We’re in the time of year where you’re likely to have attended a graduation. As parents and grandparents look on their children, the emotions in the arena likely range wildly. Pride, fear, hope, disappointment, maybe a touch of doubt. “He chose to major in Klingon?” The older generations are prone to be skeptical of the generation who is about to take their place. But in the Christian Church, we aren’t to simply wish that the next generation “makes it.” Paul lays out a plan for creating a culture of faith and good works that will last for eternal ages, because God said we should and promised it would work.

As the saints gather for worship each Lord’s Day, we should think of it as the time signature of history. God set the the metronome “in the beginning” and from then on out, the week begins with God’s creative work. 

Scripture teaches us that envy is an insidious sin. It is a destructive and soul-rotting force, and has the ability to go anywhere. It is found with the lowly and among the mighty. Envy lurks in slums and struts in kings’ palaces. We need to be far more wary of this sin than we usually are.

Text: Gen. 2:4–18

Text: Hebrews 13

Philippi was a Roman colony that had been planted in Macedonia, northern Greece. It was settled as a place where Roman soldiers could retire. Paul wrote this letter while imprisoned somewhere, and various places have been suggested as possible locations. The mostly likely scenario is that he wrote this letter while imprisoned at Rome (around 62 A.D.). The references Caesar’s household, not to mention the praetorium, are consistent with this (Phil. 1:13; Phil. 4:22).

Text: John 3:1–21

The Text: Hebrews 12:18–29

There is faith here and the unbelieving world can feel it, they bump against unseen things.Listen to the whole sermon, 'Postmillennialism for Such a Time as This.'

If you want to see the kingdom of God pushed out to the four corners of the earth then you must come to one spot on the earth, Calvary, and offer yourself freely to Christ in faith there.Listen to the whole sermon, 'Postmillennialism for Such a Time as This.'