Topic: Holiness
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A Royal Priesthood
Believers are ‘a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation.’ This two-part seminar traces the priesthood from Sinai to Christ, our one mediator, then studies the consecration of Aaron’s priests and the warnings against treating God’s holiness lightly.
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Idolatry
Even worship of the true God becomes idolatry when we shape Him into an image of our own making.
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Holiness in Marriage
Continuing a study of holiness, this message turns to marriage – calling husbands and wives to the same sacrificial, sanctifying love Christ has for His church.
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Pride
Pride was the first sin, seen in Satan’s own fall, and Paul confronted it again as the root problem in the Corinthian church. This message shows why God hates pride and how to fight it.
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Weightier Matters
Jesus condemns religious leaders who fastidiously tithe garden herbs while neglecting the law’s weightier matters of justice, mercy, and faithfulness.
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The Third and Seventh Commandments
Two commandment studies from the same seminar day: guarding the honor of God’s name, and guarding the honor of marriage from adultery.
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The Seventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
The seventh commandment isn’t just a rule against adultery – it protects marriage as a picture of God’s own covenant faithfulness.
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The Third Commandment
A two-part series on the third commandment – not taking the LORD’s name in vain – and what it means to bear God’s name well.
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The Fear of the Lord and Coram Deo
A seminar for ministers on cultivating a right fear of the Lord – reverence joined with holy dread, not craven terror – and on living every moment of life consciously coram Deo, before the face of a holy God.
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God Is a Consuming Fire
A survey of God’s holy fire in judgment, from Sodom and Nadab and Abihu to Uzzah and the ark, calling believers to worship with reverence and awe.
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Sanctification
Justification does not change us morally; sanctification is the process by which Christ’s righteousness bears fruit in us, because we serve the Holy One who called us.
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Live Life
Against the world’s advice to just ‘live life,’ this message calls believers to be doers of the word, practicing pure religion rather than empty ritual.