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This is where you will find sermons and updates for our church. Our mission is to preach expository sermons focusing on the gospel of Christ. We are a church that is tied to the reformed tradition and seeks to submit to the scriptures so we walk in the Lord’s wisdom rather than our own.
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It is easy to think that God is distant or that God does not care about the here and now. However, when we learn about prayer the opposite is rather true: we are those who have life in the Lord and we can talk to our Lord. Is prayer something that is merely a psychological thing or does the Lord really hear our prayer? How does our prayer continue to ground us in the Lord?
The apostle Paul continues to compete for the prize. What is that prize? Does this mean that the Christian life is some sort of a competition? Is there a bigger picture? What does this tell us about conforming and struggling to our Lord as we sojourn through this age?
The apostle Paul continues to compete for the prize. What is that prize? Does this mean that the Christian life is some sort of a competition? Is there a bigger picture? What does this tell us about conforming and struggling to our Lord as we sojourn through this age?
Our Lord commands us not to have a thought that would wander from His goodness. This is a rather difficult command for us to do when we consider that our affections and desires are not set on the Lord as they ought to be set upon the Lord. So, how do we proceed in the confidence of Christ? How do we proceed in the work of the Lord seeking to honor our Christ as His redeemed?
Our Lord commands us to speak well of one another. He tells us not to bear false witness against another person. What is the fundamental problem of bearing false witness against someone? What is the beauty of truth speaking in light of our redemptive purpose?
On the one hand it is very easy for us to say that not stealing is pretty easy. I mean, we might not struggle with literally shop lifting, or maybe we don’t struggle with smashing a window to steal something out of a shop. If we do struggle with shop lifting it is pretty easy to acknowledge that is sin because the government will punish for such action. However, how does this law penetrate deeper into the heart? Where do we all struggle to live out this command? How do we positively submit to the Lord?
Normally when we think about the seventh commandment we limit the commandment to keeping the marriage bed pure. Maintaining the pure marriage bed is certainly part of the commandment against adultery, but it is not all of it. There is a call for us to maintain a focused relationship on the Lord. What does a focused relationship on the Lord have to do with the seventh commandment?
The Apostle Paul moves the command to love beyond some sentimental feeling or experience. It is a call to love at the level Christ has loved us. What is this standard of love? What does love have to do with murder?
When we talk about marriage or the struggles in the household we want to go right to the commands. We want to hear what we must do and how hard we must try to be successful Christians. However, the Apostle Paul labors to communicate that we cannot do if the work has not been done. What work needs to be done? What life needs to be lived before we can live out the Christian life? How do we promote a unified household in the Lord?
Paul is addressing the reality that the Christian life is not so easy to live out. It is a life of struggle, temptation, and we have seen a turning away from the gospel. So, how do we keep our focus and orientation on the proper goal? How do we manage our priorities in the Lord?
As we profess to be Christians we are called to live our lives for our Lord as living sacrifices. Our catechism summarizes this so well when it states that we live our lives out of gratitude for our Lord because He has redeemed us. So, how do we learn what living for the Lord looks like? How do we know if we are living for the Lord?
The Apostle Paul gives the warning that if someone covets they are giving into idolatry. If someone gives into idolatry then they do not have the kingdom of God. So, as we all struggle with idolatry does that mean we do not have Christ? If we struggle with coveting does that mean we do not have Christ? How do we proceed to serve the Lord while having this propensity to struggle against his will?
As Christians we want to avoid become legalists where we make the law a tangible thing that is easy for us to keep in our strength. We also want to avoid saying that the law of God has no place in our lives. So, how do we define a good work without minimizing the law, but also without dismissing the law?
When we are saved by grace it might seem counter intuitive to say we are called to bring forth good works. How can we be saved by grace, but at the same time bringing forth good works? How do we cultivate these good works? Do these works make us worthy to enter into the presence of God? How does one become a member of God’s temple, and bring forth good works?
Our Lord took on real flesh and has entered history to live a perfect life, die on the cross, be raised to life, and ascend to heaven. He gives the sure promise that those who respond to the gospel in faith have life right now and true life in the age to come. However, those who do not respond in faith do not and will not have life in the age to come. His assurance and warning is that how one responds to the gospel in this day has ramifications for the life to come. So, what is essential to the Gospel message to have life? Do we really need to believe that Christ took on the flesh?
When Christ is on the cross he states, “it is Finished.” This seem like a simple enough statement, but what does it really mean? What implications could this have for the Lord’s Supper? What does this mean for our lives in the Lord?
Our Lord uses very strong language about finding life and having life in him. Christ tells us that need to eat his flesh and his blood. He promises that as we eat of his flesh and blood we are assured that we will have true life that will never end. So, does this mean that every time that we have the Lord’s supper that we consume Christ’s body and blood? Does this mean that every time we come together that Christ is re-sacrificed? What does Christ mean by this language?
Christ identifies the elements in the Lord’s Supper as His body and blood. Is Christ saying that the bread and the wine are merely a memorial? How can these elements continually be tied to Christ when he sacrifices himself once time? How can we be assured that as Christ is in heaven that we have life in the Lord?
The Apostle Paul mentions baptism and circumcision as two signs of Christ’s work. Does Paul mention circumcision first to show that there is something more basic or inferior to this sign tied strictly to the Old Testament? Does he mention baptism second to communicate we have really arrived in history? Is it possible that Paul sees these two signs as having similar implications, but looking to the coming of Christ from different viewpoints in history?
Paul exhorts us through his letter to Titus reminding us that he saved us, washed us by regeneration, and renews us by the Holy Spirit. This is a paraphrase, but it certainly sounds as if those who are baptized are those who necessarily have the Holy Spirit. If this is a sign that affirms our possession of the Holy Spirit why would we apply this sign of baptism to infants when we cannot know if they have the Holy Spirit?
We are a bible believing church in the Belgrade, MT. We are a Reformed Protestant church who desire to build one another up in love as we sojourn under the sun.
