Sermons

Forcing, trapping or manipulating a marriage to occur for any other reason then genuine love of a partner is not what God has intended in the Biblical concept of marriage. SELECT READ OR NOTES FOR THIS SPECIAL TRANSLATION (Note: This recording was inadvertently shut off 2/3rds way in. It was completed after the service at home.)

Unmarried Christian couples are not to denigrate their partner as an image bearer of God by participating in activities that would lead them into sin or set before obstacles to their purity in Christ. SELECT READ OR TEXT FOR THE SPECIAL TRANSLATION.

Getting ready for a successful marriage goes beyond an initial attraction that stimulates a desire, to building a close bonding relationship that is committed to a future goal that culminates in life-long marriage. SELECT READ OR TEXT FOR THE SPECIAL TRANSLATION.

Repentance that will lead you from certain death into eternal life is a saving grace of God, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and anxiety concerning the mercy of God in Christ; with grief and hatred of all their sin, turns from it and instead, turns to God, with full purpose of a new obedience to Christ and a determination to follow through.

Sanctification is all about connecting what God has done in justifying you as righteous in his sight on one hand…with obedience to Christ in this life on the other. In other words, sanctification is something God does in you and by which you respond in obedience. Sanctification is a verb.