Topic: Sanctification
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Mortifying Sin
Because God is infinitely holy, growing in holiness means growing in hatred of sin. This message lays out the Christian duty, danger, and battle plan for mortifying sin.
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Obedience
Christ’s willing obedience calls believers to whole-hearted obedience of their own, and there is no neutral ground before God: everyone is already a slave either to sin or to righteousness.
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The Lord Will Bring Us Safely To His Heavenly Kingdom
Justification is the foundation, but the same God who saved us has promised to bring us safely all the way home.
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God Is Gracious
A survey of God’s graciousness — in common grace to all creation, in the discipline He gives His children, and in how that graciousness can be presumed upon and abused.
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Enduring God’s Holy Discipline
Psalm 3, written as David fled from Absalom, shows a king under God’s discipline for his sin, who still finds that salvation belongs to the Lord.
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Homosexuality
A biblical, unflinching look at homosexuality — what Scripture actually says, why arguments for accommodating it don’t hold up, and the gospel hope that no sin is beyond Christ’s power to forgive and transform.
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Love Your Neighbor as Yourself (Part 2)
The second great commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself. The Bible defines that love as sincere, active and selfless, doing good and no harm.
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Baptism
A two-part study of baptism – the sign of the covenant – and the case for baptizing the children of believers as heirs of the same promise.
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Biblical Maturity
What does it mean to grow up in the faith? This sermon defines biblical maturity through Ephesians 4 and contrasts being ‘like children’ in faith with being childish in understanding.
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The Parable of Growth and Maturity
The growth parables point to a life that must mature. God gives new birth and every resource for godliness, and calls believers to grow into the image of Christ.
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New Year
Every longing for a fresh start is answered in Christ, who alone makes people new and calls them to put off the old self and put on the new.
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Wrestling with God
Jacob’s night wrestling with God at the Jabbok becomes a picture of how God transforms His people through struggle.