Topic: Christ
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The Mission of Christ
Christ’s mission compels each believer to ask what their own personal mission and hope in life truly is.
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Anno Domini: In the Year of the Lord
On New Year’s Day, this message reflects on “Anno Domini” — the year of our Lord — tracing how God has always marked time around His redemptive acts, from Israel’s Passover calendar to Christ who holds all things together.
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The Incarnation of God the Son
A Christmas program retelling the nativity of Luke 2 through carols, drama, and reflection on the incarnation of God the Son, closing with a prayer for the next generation.
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The Light of the World
From Matthew 5:14-16: believers are the light of the world, meant to be seen so others glorify the Father.
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Glorification
Glorification is the final link in the golden chain of redemption: already God’s children, believers will one day be conformed fully to the glorified Christ.
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The Day of Atonement: Yom Kippur
The Day of Atonement pictured the costly, once-a-year covering for Israel’s sin, a shadow fulfilled once for all in Christ.
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Protoevangelium: The First Gospel
The 10th MITWS traces the ‘first gospel’ of Genesis 3:15 through the long war between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent to its fulfillment in Christ, pictured beforehand in the Day of Atonement.
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The War Between Two Seeds
From the promise of a woman’s offspring who would crush the serpent’s head, to the dragon’s defeat in Revelation, this message traces the one long war between two seeds that frames the whole Bible.
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Protoevangelium: The First Gospel
The first promise of a Savior comes right after the Fall — this sermon traces the ‘war between two seeds’ from Genesis 3:15 all the way to its fulfillment in Jesus Christ.
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The Holy Trinity
John’s prologue grounds the doctrine of the Trinity: the Word who was with God and was God became flesh and dwelt among us.
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Spokesman of the Law
Moses delivered God’s law as his spokesman at Sinai. This message asks how Christians should relate to that law now that Christ has come to fulfill it.
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The Firstborn
The Sunday after Christmas, retelling Luke’s nativity account and Christ’s identity as “the firstborn over all creation.”