Our sermon text comes from Mark’s Gospel. A few hours after the Lord’s Supper, the washing of the feet, the betrayal and arrest, and we come to Jesus standing trial before the council, we read in Mark 14, beginning at verse 53: “And they led Jesus to the high priest. And all the chief priests […]
Two Trials, Two Questions
Two Ways to Live
Undeterred and Undiscerning
Our Father in heaven, the words we have just sung, may they be our prayer, that You would show us Christ. Keep us pure. Help us to love and to practice what is true. Preserve us; cause us to persevere, that we might not forfeit our right to eat from the tree of life, and […]
Unless the Lord Builds the House
Father in heaven, what a privilege that we can be Your children. As we come now to the reading and preaching of Your Holy Word, we ask that You give us eyes to see Your truth, ears to hear Your voice, hearts to believe Your Word, and feet to walk in Your ways. In Christ […]
Unsung Heroes: David’s Mighty Men
Father, as we now turn to Your Word and wait at Your feet for You to instruct us, to teach us, we pray, Lord, that what we just sang would be true in our hearts and in our lives, that Jesus, we have taken up our cross to follow You. We do this because You […]
Unsung Heroes: Epaphras
Let’s open our Bibles today to the book of Colossians. We’re turning to two different places. First of all, chapter 1, verses 7 and 8. We actually begin our reading at verse 3, but 7 and 8 is our focus from chapter one. Then turning to chapter 4, we’ll be reading verses 12 and 13. […]
Unsung Heroes: Gaius
CHRIST COVENANT CHURCH Dave Baxter 3 John Gaius Date of Sermon: 07-31-2022 Well, good morning, again. So good to be together as we come to God’s Word and go ahead then and open your Bibles to 3 John if you haven’t done so already. 3 John is right towards the very end, if you’re trying […]
Unsung Heroes: Jethro
Our Father, Your Word is truth. Sanctify us by Your truth, through the Word preached. May Your Spirit open our hearts to receive Your truth. May my words be according to Your truth, and in all things, may the One who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life be seen and be exalted. It […]
Unsung Heroes: Joshua and Zerubbabel
Well, it’s good to see you all again. People have asked us, said to us many times this week, we miss you, and I want you to know that Jane and I miss you a lot. We’ve noticed that a lot of you are getting older. We’ve noticed that. And a lot of you are […]
Unsung Heroes: Onesiphorus
O God of our fathers, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, we rejoice to know You as our God and our Father, the God who was and is and is to come, the one true and living God, and so we pray that you would speak now to us, through Your Living Word, in Jesus’ […]
Unsung Heroes: Shiphrah and Puah
Father, help us to listen. Inspire us with Your truth, convict us of sin, encourage us with the hope and the grace of the Gospel, and give to us great strength and courage to live as unsung heroes of the faith. In Jesus we pray. Amen. Our text this morning comes from Exodus chapter 1. […]
Unsung Heroes: The Daughters of Zelophehad
O, Lord, our prayer is that You would open our ears that we may hear Your voice, open our eyes that we may see Your glory, open our hearts that we may know Your truth. Show us what it looks like to live a faithful Christian life. Show us Christ. Give us ears, give us […]
Unsung Heroes: The Thief on the Cross
Let’s go to the Lord in prayer. So Lord Jesus, we come to you now. We long to hear from You. We pray that You would glorify Yourself, even as You have already glorified Yourself through the singing of Your Word. Lord, we pray that You would glorify Yourself through the preaching of Your Word. […]
Unsung Heroes: Tychicus
O Lord, we ask now that You would open our ears that we may hear Your voice, open our eyes that we may see Your glory, open our hearts that we may know Your truth. Show us what it looks like to live a faithful, Christian life, and even more than that, show us Christ, […]
Unto Us a Child Is Born
Up and Away
Let’s pray. O Father, we trust that these words we have just sung are not just words, but reflect and express the attitude of our hearts, so we pray again that you would prepare our hearts, O God, help us to receive. We do have hard and stony ground in our hearts. We are easily […]
Up and Away
Up and Down
Let’s pray. But this is the one to whom I will look, he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at My Word. We ask, O Lord, that you look upon us now, in your kindness, speak to us. Give us ears to hear. We want to be those who are humble and […]
Uzziah: A Tragic Conclusion to a Promising Life
Would you take your Bibles please and turn with me to 2 Chronicles chapter 26. We’ll be looking this morning at what began as the very promising reign of Judah’s king Uzziah and its unfortunate and tragic conclusion. And from our study, I hope we’ll see several applications that’ll help us think carefully about finishing […]