Since its publication in 1563, the Heidelberg Catechism has been published in scores, if not hundreds, of languages and has been widely praised as the most devotional, perhaps most-loved catechism to come out of the Reformation. It has been estimated that after the Bible, John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and Thomas a Kempis’s The Imitation of…
Let’s pray one more time. Gracious heavenly Father, we ask sincerely that you would give us ears to hear or else we will waste our time. Prone to wander, Lord, we feel it – easily distracted, easily thinking about the week that was past, the week to come. So, help us now to focus upon…
Continue with our readings through the Gospel of Luke. Now Jesus has been born, and it comes time to present him at the temple. As was commanded in the law of Moses, that sacrifice would be made at the birth of the son. Pick up Luke 2, verse 25. We’re going to meet two characters…
Please turn in your Bibles to Luke chapter 1. Luke chapter 1. We’ll be reading verses 57-80, the end of the chapter. Luke chapter 1. Let’s ask for the Lord’s help as we come to his word. Gracious heavenly Father, we pray not merely out of habit or custom, thinking that sermons ought to begin…
Let’s pray as we come to Luke chapter 1. Our gracious heavenly Father, we thank you for the message that you give to us through your word. And now we ask that you would help this poor, frail minister to be a steward of your mysteries – that we all, as we have the privilege…
Let’s pray one more time. Blessed Lord, who caused all holy scriptures to be written for our learning, grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and the comfort of your holy word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which…
Let’s come to the Lord in prayer once more. Gracious heavenly Father, what good news we have just sung. Remind us, now and throughout these next weeks, when we think about these sweet, often familiar scenes – perhaps see around town, or in our own homes, a nativity set. We think of the precious baby…
Our Father in heaven, we ask for your help – not simply because sermons begin with a prayer – more importantly, because we really need your help. I need your help to preach your word faithfully, boldly, humbly, clearly. We need your help if we are to hear and to receive and be changed. We…
Let me give a one-sentence summary of the doctrine of sola scriptura – Scripture alone. It comes from Westminster Confession of Faith 110: “The supreme judge by which all controversies of religion are to be determined and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits are to be examined…
Father, we’ve already sung these words. We offer them to you again as our prayer. Show us Christ. So simple, and yet from our hearts, we ask that through this word, you would show us Christ, you would reveal your glory through the preaching of your word, that every heart in this room within the…
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