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Hope in the Face of Horror (Habakkuk 1:1-2:4, 3:17-19)

Habakkuk's complaint to God, Violence! Not Right! Not Fair! God's Answer and Promise of Justification by Faith and Hinds Feet…

10 years ago

The Trinity (Belgic Confession Article 8 – 11; Mathew 28:18-20)

Holy Scriptures teach us that the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit have each His personality, distinguished by…

10 years ago

Disciples: True and False (John 2:23-25)

An inadequate faith produces sporadic, showy, and skeptical disciples and followers. Jesus Christ produces true, genuine, and sincere followers and…

10 years ago

Words of the Covenant (Belgic Confession Article 2-3; Hebrews 1:1-2, Hebrews 2:1-4, 2 Peter 1:20-21)

Scripture as Divine-Human Word, Scripture as Covenant Canons, and Scripture as Window to Christ

10 years ago

Subversives (Joel 3:9-17, 1 Corinthians 15:50-54)

Raising the Weak, Recompensing the Wicked, Rocking the World, and Revealing Mount Zion

10 years ago

Knowing God through Creation and Covenants (Belgic Confession Article 2; Romans 1:18-21, Psalm 19)

Word of Creation, Word of the Old Covenant, and Word of the New Covenant

10 years ago

Restoration and Retribution (Acts 15:12-19, Joel 3:1-8)

Restoration, Retrebution, and Realization

10 years ago

A Single Diamond of Light with Many Sides of Brilliance (Belgic Confession Article 1; Exodus 33:17-34:8, Deuteronomy 6:4, Romans 3:23-26, Ephesians 1:19-20, 3:14-17, James 1:17)

Single, simple, spirit, and creator; eternal, incomprehensible, invisible, immutable, infinite, and almighty; perfectly wise, just, and good

10 years ago

The Heavenly Community: Signs & Survivors (Joel 2:28-32)

Cosmic Signs, Church's Signs, Childhood Signs, the Sign of the Cross, and the Sign of Survivors

10 years ago

The Heavenly Community: Spirit & Speech (Acts 2)

To leave the Church is to leave Christ. Attend a Church commited to Sola Scriptura. Attend a Church anchored in…

10 years ago

From Old Covenant Locusts to New Covenant Shalom (Heidelberg Catechism QA 60-61, 88-90; Joel 2:12-27)

Grain Wine, and Oil; Early and Later Rains; Replace the Locust Years with Eternal Shalom; and No More Shame

10 years ago

Fabric of Life, Dyed in Christ (Psalm 118)

Trouble, Triumph, Temple, and Thanksgiving

10 years ago

The Shepherd & Me: Life in Covenant with God (Heidelberg Catechism QA 83-85; Psalm 23, Mathew 18:12-14)

Jesus is Enough, He Feeds My Soul, He Restores Me When I Stray, He Guides Me In Righteousness, He Goes…

10 years ago

The Day of the Lord, Who Can Endure it? (Joel 2:1-14, Revelation 6:12-17)

The Theophanic Cloud and Chariot, the Collapse of Creation, Who Can Endure it? and Rend Your Heart Not Your Garments

10 years ago

God of the Storm and of the Shalom (Belgic Confession Article 28, Psalm 29)

A Call to the Lord's Worship, the Voice of the Lord's Word, and the Lord's Benediction Word

10 years ago

From Cursed Locust to Blessed Life in Christ (Joel 1, Mathew 3:1-4, John 1:29-33)

Life in the Land, Locusts in the Land, Lamentation in the Land, and the Lushness in the Land

10 years ago

Blessings From Jerusalem to the World (Heidelberg Catechism QA 60-61, Psalm 67)

Have we received this blessing? have we received the life eternal in Jesus Christ?

10 years ago

The Single Key of Grace and Truth (2 Thessalonians 2:13-16)

The Grace of Thanks, the Grace of Christ, the Grace of Spirit, the Grace of the Father, and the Grace…

10 years ago

Weeds: Resisted, Rooted, and Uprooted (Belgic Confession Article 29, 2 Thessalonians 2:5-12)

Revelation and mystery of lawlessness, restraint of lawlessness, recognition of lawlessness, reprobation of lawlessness, and robes of righteousness

10 years ago

Worship & Warning (Psalm 95)

Sacred Singing, Solemn Sumission, and Spiritually Saturated

10 years ago

The Apostate's Creed (Heidelberg Catechism QA 6-8, Psalm 14)

The creed of Apostates, the condition of Apostates, the conflict of Apostates, and the cry of Apostates.

10 years ago

Gospel Weed & Feed (2 Thessalonians 2:1-14)

The Victorious Harvest of Fruit, the Insidious Infestation of Weeds, and the need for Gospel Weed and Feed.

10 years ago

O City of God (Belgic Confession Article 27, 29; Psalm 87)

A Heavenly Assembly, a Heavenly Humanity, and a Heavenly Happiness.

10 years ago

I Will Build My Church (Matthew 16:13-28)

The Church's Charter, the Church's Foundation, and the Church's Structure

10 years ago

Zion Remembered (Heidelberg Catechism QA 49-52; Psalm 137)

Crying and Remembering, Curse and Forgetting, and Captors Remembered

10 years ago

The Fight (2 Timothy 1:8-14; 2:1-3, 14-22; 3:10-4:8)

The Arena of the Fight, the Reason for the Fight, and the Results of the Fight

10 years ago

Depths (Heidelberg Catechism QA 20-22; Psalm 130)

Definition of Depths, Drying Up of Depths, and Detention of Depths

10 years ago

The Shadow of a Cross in the Sunset of a Life (2 Timothy 4:9-22)

Discouraging Apostasy, Persecuting Opposition, Abandonment and Weakness, Unjust Verdicts, and Uninfluential Loyalties

10 years ago

Praising God for Heaven, and Earth, and His Kingdom (Heidelberg Catechism QA 26-28; Psalm 148)

Praise God from Heaven and its Hosts, Earth and its Hosts, and His Kingdom of Priests

10 years ago

Pulling Up Anchor (Numbers 6:13-20, 2 Timothy 4:4-6)

Looking to the Present, Past, and Future

10 years ago

Being Right With God (Heidelberg Catechism QA 69; Romans 7:1-25)

Terrible conduct, trouble conscience, and total concurance

11 years ago

God's Rich Mercy (Ephesians 2:1-10)

God is not only well supplied with resources, but he's also generous with regard to each and every one of…

11 years ago

A Song for Singing & A Sword for Swinging (Heidelberg Catechism QA 105-107; Psalm 149)

Kingdom of God Clashes with the Kingdom of Man, Kingdom of God Creates Songs, Kingdom of God Conquers with a…

11 years ago

The Howl of the Wolves (2 Timothy 4:1-4, Matthew 7:12-27)

The Opening Service The Sober Warning of Christ, Detecting the Wolves, Howling of the Wolves, and the Quiet Words of…

11 years ago

Kiss the Son: Part 2 (Heidelberg Catechism QA 27, 28; Psalm 1-2)

The Kingdom of God that was lost through a man, Adam. The Kingdom of God typologically lost in Israel through…

11 years ago

Scriptural Spectacles (Isaiah 55:6-13, 2 Timothy 3:14-17)

God's word comes to us concretely an penetratitively as a comunication to us.

11 years ago

Kiss the Son: Part 1 (Heidelberg Catechism QA 49, 51; Psalm 2, Acts 17:30-31)

Psalm 2 is about Christ, it's a prophetic Psalm of David about Christ, about David's Son. A Psalm about Davidic…

11 years ago

Impostors & Imitators (Exodus 7:8-13, 2 Timothy 3:6-13)

The truth delivers us from deception. It is truth, as we continue to feed upon it, that keeps us from…

11 years ago

Walk… Stand… Sit… (Heidelberg Catechism QA 114, 115; Psalm 1)

Jesus Christ, He walked, He stands, and He sits on the holly mount Zion, on the God's throne.

11 years ago

The Worst of Times, the Best of Times (Psalm 107:10-16, 2 Timothy 3:1-5)

God calls us to come to him with a deep sense of understanding our spiritual bankruptcy.

11 years ago

Longing for God in Corporate Worship (Heidelberg Catechism QA 103; Psalm 84)

Being invited and drawn near to the holy place of the corporate worship through the Blood of Jesus Christ.

11 years ago

Killing Them Softly (Psalm 18:25-42, 2 Timothy 2:14-26)

If Jesus Christ has gotten a hold of you, it will affect how you think and how you live. It…

11 years ago

Why Do We Keep Singing the Gloria Patri? (Heidelberg Catechism QA 94-95, Genesis 2:1-3, Hebrews 3:12-4:16)

The Gloria Patri is about two things. First, it is about God, about giving Glory to the Triune God. The…

11 years ago

Joy for the Journey (Acts 2:22-33, Psalm 16)

A life in Jesus Christ, a right hand of the Father that we have access to and communion with to…

11 years ago

The King of the Glory Enters Zion (Heidelberg Catechism QA 49-52, Psalm 24)

We were made for more, we were made for Glory, we were made for the rich communion with God, and…

11 years ago

Fodder for the Farmer (2 Samuel 7:1-17, 2 Timothy 2:8-14)

The Gospel is a message of Salvation and Deliverance from Sin, it is an entry way and the pathway.

11 years ago

Knockin' on Hades' Door (Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 16, Psalm 88)

Jesus Christ crusified and risen are your objects of faith. Jesus Christ crusified and risen is your healing

11 years ago