Recent Sermons

How should we respond when we are the victim of other people's sin? In this text, Jesus gives a process to protect those who have been sinned against (vs 18-20). When that process fails to restore the relationship, Jesus then instructs us how we can find freedom from bitterness as we forgive others from our hearts.

As you exercise self-control, practice self-denial, you must possess the steadfastness necessary to maintain your self-control through the trials and temptations of every day life.

There are four distinguishing characteristics of a soldier of the cross.

The more you know God the more it changes your life.

To the foundation of saving faith, virtue and knowledge, Peter add the need to exercise self-control. Without self-control, all of our good intentions spiritually will fail. Self-control grows in the soil of self-denial.

The Sermon on the Mount was Christ’s inauguration sermon for His apostles. It contains a very important message dealing with righteousness, emphasizing internal attitudes instead of the Law which emphasizes outward behavior. Today’s lesson is the introduction to our study of this sermon and we ought to study it for it clearly reveals the need of the new birth in order to live it. Secondly, Jesus Christ sacrificed his life on our behalf in order that we might both understand it and live it. The third reason we ought to study it is because of the blessing promised to those who make it applicable in their lives, revealed in the oft repeated words “Blessed are…”

Peter continues his explanation of godly living. Believers must make every effort to supplement virtue to their saving faith and the knowledge of what Christ-like living really is to their virtue.

The Lord's Supper is a solemn remembrance of the sacrifice of Christ on our behalf. It is also a proclamation of union with Christ. This sermon is a brief summary of the doctrinal implications of the Lord's supper.