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Whoever Believes in Him
Listen to sermon : Whoever Believes in HimNicodemus asks how a man can be born again, and Jesus answers with heavenly things. As Moses lifted up the bronze serpent so that dying Israelites could look and live, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that whoever believes…
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Self-Righteousness vs. God’s Righteousness
Listen to sermon : Self-Righteousness vs. God’s RighteousnessJesus tells the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous. The Pharisee thanks God that he is not like other men and lists his fasting and tithing. The tax collector stands…
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A Good Principle from a Bad Example
Listen to sermon : A Good Principle from a Bad ExampleA dishonest manager, about to lose his job for wasting his master’s goods, reduces the debts of his master’s debtors so they will welcome him later. His master commends him, not for dishonesty but for shrewdness. Jesus draws a principle from this…
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This Fleeting World
Listen to sermon : This Fleeting World“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” The world here is the system of thought and life in rebellion against God, marked by the…
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Knowing the Father and the Son
Listen to sermon : Knowing the Father and the SonJohn writes to little children, fathers, and young men: God has forgiven their sins for Christ’s name’s sake. Forgiveness is the foundational blessing of salvation, secured by Christ’s once-for-all sacrifice; unlike the old covenant priests who always stood, he sat down at…
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Safe in God’s Hand
Listen to sermon : Safe in God’s HandMany people feel less safe than they once did, but those who belong to Christ are secure in God’s hand. Their security rests on God’s purpose: the Father gave his sheep to the Son before the foundation of the world, and the…
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Cry Out for Salvation
Listen to sermon : Cry Out for SalvationIn Psalm 69 David suffers reproach and betrayal, and the Gospels show the psalm fulfilled in Christ, who was given vinegar to drink on the cross. Christ prayed for his enemies’ forgiveness, and the psalm also asks God to judge the unrepentant,…
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An Old Commandment, a New Commandment
Listen to sermon : An Old Commandment, a New CommandmentJohn writes no new commandment but an old one his readers have had from the beginning: the command to love, grounded in God’s law to love our neighbor as ourselves. Yet it is also new, because it is true in Christ and…
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The Suffering and Triumphant Servant
Listen to sermon : The Suffering and Triumphant ServantIsaiah 52-53 describes the Servant whose appearance men marred beyond human semblance, whom they despised and rejected, a man of sorrows. His atonement is substitutionary and penal: “he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was…
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How Beautiful Upon the Mountains!
Listen to sermon : How Beautiful Upon the Mountains!“Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion.” Jerusalem, who drank the cup of God’s wrath to the dregs, hears the call to wake to renewal, for the Lord has taken that cup from her hand. His people, oppressed by Egypt and…