sermons – Page 32 – Christ the Truth

‘Alas, my heart almost bleeds! What a multitude of precious souls are now before me! How shortly must all be ushered into eternity! And yet, O cutting thought! Was God now to require all your souls, how few, comparatively speaking, could really say, ‘the Lord our righteousness!’

‘…You need not fear the greatness or number of your sins. For are you sinners? So am I. Are you the chief of sinners? So am I. Are you backsliding sinners? So am I. And yet the Lord (for ever adored be his rich, free and sovereign grace) the Lord is my righteousness.

Come then, O young man, who (as I acted once myself) are playing the prodigal, and wandering away afar off from your heavenly Father’s house, come home, come home, and leave your swine’s trough. Feed no longer on the husks of sensual delights: for Christ’s sake arise, and come home!

‘Your heavenly Father now calls you. See yonder the best robe, even the righteousness of his dear Son, awaits you. See it, view it again and again.

‘Consider at how dear a rate it was purchased, even by the blood of God. Consider what great need you have of it. You are lost, undone, damned for ever, without it. Come then, poor, guilty prodigals, come home…’

Do check out Lex's blog, he's taking us through the Great Awakening in such a heart-warming and exciting way.

Christianity Explored – week 3 – Why did Jesus come?

GlenOctober 22, 2009Leave a comment

My talk from last night. (I'll publish text and other talks later)

Paul Blackham spoils everything (by stating the obvious)

GlenOctober 19, 2009February 6, 2017Leave a comment

Tim Keller likes the up-hill approach to a sermon. Create tension, heighten the tension, resolve it in Christ.

As we've seen, Karl Barth thought sermons should run down-hill - from Christ.

Here Paul Blackham lets the cat out of the bag early. But as he says "It's not a mystery!"

Paul's recent Daniel sermons...

More on union

GlenOctober 18, 2009Leave a comment

Some new Mike Reeves talks on union with Christ.

Some talks by Mark Garcia also on union (haven't heard them yet but they've been recommended by Dave K)

UPDATE: Dave also recommends these by Richard Gaffin (though he hasn't heard all of them)

Justified in union with Christ

GlenOctober 17, 2009Leave a comment

Having just thought about Calvin and union with Christ - here is Mike's second talk on justification. We receive His righteousness in Jesus.

Do give some time to these talks. It's a chance to be refreshed and liberated by gospel truth.

A little web surfing and spiritual poverty will come upon you like a robber 6

GlenOctober 14, 2009January 30, 20146 Comments

If watching this for 7 minutes saves you from another 7 minutes of wasted web-surfing, it's done it's job.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzxmMvbBilM&feature=player_embedded

Full sermon here.

ht prognosis.

Mike Reeves on Justification part 1

GlenOctober 14, 2009Leave a comment

Hour long talk. Mike opens with the story of justification. Really, really good.

Here's an early stop along the road. The Epistle to Diognetus:

He himself took on Him the burden of our iniquities, He gave His own Son as a ransom for us, the holy One for transgressors, the blameless One for the wicked, the righteous One for the unrighteous, the incorruptible One for the corruptible, the immortal One for them that are mortal. For what other thing was capable of covering our sins than His righteousness? By what other one was it possible that we, the wicked and ungodly, could be justified, than by the only Son of God? O sweet exchange! O unsearchable operation! O benefits surpassing all expectation! that the wickedness of many should be hid in a single righteous One, and that the righteousness of One should justify many transgressors! (Epistle to Diognetus, ch9)

Sorry I'm only posting links at the moment. I've been wasting a lot of time trying to get my hands on workable video creating software. No joy yet.

We always imagine technology will side-step the curse. It's always a shock to realize technology just forces us to engage it all the deeper!

Christianity Explored – week 1 11

GlenOctober 13, 2009September 5, 201411 Comments

Here's my introductory talk to Christianity Explored <-- Check out their new edition.

Audio here.

Text below.

Basically a bit of Reeves' "Which God are you talking about?", a bit of Tice "Christianity is Christ" and a bit of Keller "Since it's a relationship, don't make Him into a Stepford Jesus."

...continue reading "Christianity Explored – week 1"

Amazing Grace

GlenOctober 12, 2009Leave a comment

How sweet the sound.

66 minutes of the marvellous Menon on grace. He plunges us to the depths then takes us to the heights. Balm for the soul, as Will would say.

Not just sheltered – BROUGHT OUT

GlenSeptember 28, 2009Leave a comment

Not just Passover, but Red Sea crossing.

Not just saved by the blood, but delivered over to new life.

Not just baptised into His death, but sharing in His resurrection

That's the gist of this sermon on Exodus 13 and 14 - preached last night.

We looked at Passover last week. We rejoiced in the fact that we are saved by our Passover Lamb, Christ, apart from works. But commonly these are the kinds of responses people make to that message:

Great! He's handed me a blank cheque to sin

Well, maybe, but He doesn't love me now or He'd save me from these troubles

Fine, but I'm still stuck in sin. His salvation doesn't seem to help me today.

But as we look at Exodus 13-14 we see that each of these responses is faulty. Rather, we are SAVED... FROM THE OLD LIFE... THROUGH HARDSHIPS... WITH DIVINE POWER.

Sermons so far:

Church in the Wilderness 1 - Introduction

Church in the Wilderness 2 - Passover

Church in the Wilderness 3 - Crossing the Red Sea