24-0317: God is sovereign and worthy of all honor, glory, and praise because He holds life in His hands and gives eternal life in His Name. Daniel is called in for another Babylonian king, Belshazzar, to interpret a writing on the wall. He tells him that he too, like his predecessors, have hardened their...
24-0121: Christ-followers live by power of Holy Spirit to apply gospel truth to all of life and share it with all people. Continuing from last week’s message, Pastor Lane covers the last two of Four Core Elements of a Christ-follower’s new identity in Christ, Disciple and Missioner. Salvation in Christ brings about renewal of...
23-1105: The message of the gospel is our means and our mission; the grace of God through Jesus Christ from first to last. Paul is writing to Timothy his last words, and exhorting him to endure in gospel mission. His words are serious and weighty because he wants Timothy to carry on and multiply...
23-1008: Christ-followers live as stewards of the Lord Jesus in all of life to walk in His blessing. Jesus teaches his disciples how to live as faithful servants for the blessing of God on life. The way a servant lives to receive the master’s blessing is captured in one word, steward. A steward is...
23-1001: God entrusts the treasure of the gospel to all who believe in Jesus to serve in our generation and pass it on to the next. Paul, now advanced in years, writes to a younger Timothy while awaiting sentencing from his second imprisonment. There is a seriousness in what he writes to clarify what...
23-0924: God confronts our rebellious heart with His relentless grace to invite us to trust His steadfast love and rest in His sovereign plan. In this last chapter we learn the motive that made Jonah run, he didn’t want God to save the Ninevites. Jonah grows exceedingly angry with God. God confronts him in...
23-0917: God, who is sovereign to save, calls His people to be a faithful witness so the nations can hear and believe. Jonah goes to Nineveh to preach the message God gave him, but he is not thrilled about it. The text seems to show that he gave no extra effort, only the bare...
And we do this, WE do this, not just you or me, but together WE do this to grow up and become like Jesus. You can grow individually, but you cannot grow up alone. No person grows to maturity to become like Jesus without others. There is no individual process to maturity that excludes...
A church like Ephesus, highly committed to doctrinal diligence, was not only necessary to guard against, but one could argue, produced by the demand that arises from the false teachings and teachers that came so prolifically from a hyper-religious culture. No one sets out to abandon God’s love, but many wake up one day...
The King is Coming states the doctrinal conviction that the One who came, Jesus, is King and is coming again. He who came from heaven, bore our sin on the cross, was buried and raised on the third day, and ascended as King is coming again to culminate the full measure of His victory...