8 Rules For Growing In Godliness: Rule #5: Pondering The Brevity Of Life “This life is a race, a race against time, a race to become like Christ as we sprint toward Christ. Even the greatest believers will still be laden by sin as they cross the finish and receive their crown. The holiest saints will still be stained with …

The preaching text for congregational worship on Sunday will be John 2:13-25. We are still at the very beginning of Jesus’ public ministry. From Cana in Galilee, where Jesus has performed his first miracle (turning water into wine), he and his disciples travel south to Jerusalem. They go to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover, as was the custom of the day. As …

8 Rules For Growing In Godliness: Rule #4: Watch For Temptation “No Christian wants to be tempted, yet every Christian will be tempted. In fact, every Christian will inevitably endure times of grueling temptation, when the opportunity to sin and even the desire to sin are nearly overwhelming. The Bible promises that temptations will arise from within and from without, …

This Sunday our preaching text will be John 2:1-12. Having worked through John’s account of the calling of the first disciples, we venture into John’s account of Jesus’ first sign or miracle. This begins a public ministry that will carry us through to chapter twelve. Again, we should remember that John has been very clear about his purpose in reporting …

8 Rules For Growing In Godliness: Rule #3: Think Holy Thoughts “Only a mind that has been pierced by God’s light and dazzled by a sight of Christ can desire something so selfless, so noble. The mind’s renewal depends upon the practice of thinking holy thoughts, of deliberately applying the light of God’s Word so it can search our hearts …

This Sunday our preaching text will be John 1:35-51. This is John’s account of the calling of the first disciples. And, while it contains less detail than Matthew, Mark and Luke, it provides powerful insight into this most important time before Jesus’ public ministry begins. All of us encounter different things, people and circumstances every day. Sometimes those encounters are …

8 Rules For Growing In Godliness: Rule #2: Guard Against Worldliness “There are certain words and ideas that, over time, fall out of favor. Once they have fallen out of favor, it is not long before they fall out of common parlance. Sometimes, when words are archaic or their ideas unbiblical, this is the church’s gain. At other times, though, …

This Sunday our preaching text will be John 1:19-34. John (the author) alluded to our text in his prologue when he mentioned the witness of John the Baptist (1:6-8, 15). The body of John’s gospel begins here and over the next couple of weeks we will be taken into the days leading up to Jesus’ public ministry. The first thing John …

Rule #1: Trust In The Means Of Grace (8 Rules For Growing In Godliness) “God’s means of grace are the Word, prayer, and fellowship. These, according to John MacArthur, are the “instruments through which God’s Spirit graciously grows believers in Christlikeness and fortifies them in the faith and conforms them into the image of the Son.” J.C. Ryle describes them …

The sermon text for this Sunday will be John 1:1-18. These eighteen verses contain John’s prologue or introductory remarks that lead into the rest of his gospel account. The prologue is extremely important because it introduces the major themes that will be worked out over the rest of the narrative (as you read through the prologue see how many themes …