That You May Believe

O Lord, we come once again asking for Your help. We have many passions in life, but we are often lacking in zeal for godliness. So forgive our complacency, our love of cheap grace, and have mercy on us, Your sheep. Seek and save even this morning those that are lost. Gather in Your arms…

Let’s pray. Our gracious heavenly Father, we ask now for Your grace, Your amazing grace, that we might have ears to hear, a heart to feel, a mind to understand, and a will to obey. Open our eyes, O Lord, that we may behold wonderful things from Your Word. In Christ we pray. Amen. Happy…

Let’s pray. O Lord, you are good and do good. Teach me, teach us, Your statutes. The insolent smear us with lies, but with our whole hearts, we keep Your precepts. Their heart is unfeeling like fat, but we delight in Your law. It is good for us that we were afflicted, that we might…

Our text this morning comes from John’s Gospel, chapter 8, the end of the chapter beginning at verse 48 through verse 59. John chapter 8, beginning at verse 48. “The Jews answered Him, ‘Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?’ Jesus answered, ‘I do not have a…

O Lord, that is our prayer. Not simply that we would leave here in 40 minutes feeling good or bad or knowing something we didn’t know, or even understanding Your Word better as important as that is. Our prayer ultimately is that you would show us Christ. You would reveal your glory through the preaching…

Let’s pray. Our loving heavenly Father, we love what Your Word says in James 4:6, “but he gives more grace.” And so we claim Your promise, that though you oppose the proud, You give grace to the humble. We come now to Your Word with meekness and with confidence, with humility and with boldness. We…

Let’s pray. Heavenly Father, we ask now that you would give us ears to hear and hearts to feel and wills to obey. Deal with us according to your steadfast love, and teach us your statutes. Show us Christ that we may love and worship Him, with all that we have, in light of all…

Our text this morning comes from John’s Gospel, chapter 7. You want to have your Bibles open to John chapter 7, beginning at verse 25 through 39, and especially so because we will be flipping back to the Old Testament to get some background throughout the sermon to understand what’s going on here, so it’s…

Let’s pray. A voice says cry, and I said what shall I cry? All flesh is grass and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers and the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades,…