Dr. Kevin DeYoung

Father in heaven, we pray because we are easily distracted. We’re thinking of the week before. We’re thinking of lunch. We’re thinking of the week to come. And even more concerning, we’re often hard-hearted. We’re hearers. We’re not really listeners. And so, we pray that your Word would sink deep into our hearts, we would…

Our text this morning is Romans chapter 3. Please turn there in your Bibles. Romans chapter 3. Our text is verses 3-8, though I’ll pick up the reading (so we can get the whole paragraph) beginning at verse 1. One commentator says about this paragraph, “It is one of the most difficult, perhaps, in the…

As we come to Paul’s letter to the Romans, let’s pray for God’s help. Give thou the hearing ear. Fix thou the wandering thought, that those we teach may hear the great things that thou hast wrought. Speak thou for us, O Lord, in all we say of thee. According to thy Word let all…

Let’s pray one more time. Our Father in heaven, we come again in prayer. I suppose it can feel like we have a lot of prayers in a service, but that’s because there are a lot of things to pray about. And so, now we need your help. We call this the prayer of illumination…

Let’s pray one more time. Gracious heavenly Father, we come to this text and to this message, and we pray, we trust not simply out of habit or custom, but I come because I’m needy, I need your help. May I decrease? May Christ increase? Would you give me the words to say: strength, the…

Let’s pray. Now he’s standing in the place of honor, crowned with glory on the highest throne, interceding for his own beloved till his Father calls to bring them home. Then the skies will part as the trumpet sounds – hope of heaven or the fear of hell. But the bride will run to her…

Let’s ask for the Lord’s help. Gracious heavenly Father, we have already heard in this book that your wrath is now being revealed – at present being revealed – against ungodliness and unrighteousness. We have already heard several times that we, your fallen creatures, are without excuse, perhaps even storing up wrath for the day…

Let’s pray once more. Gracious heavenly Father, help us now as we come to your Word. Most of us have heard sermons before. Some of us have heard a lot of sermons before, but we pray that by your Spirit, you would come and preach this message, whether familiar theme or new insights, would come…

Let’s pray as we come to God’s Word. O God, it is terribly true what we have just sung. Our sins are so many. There is not one of us here who would be happy to have all that we have said, all that we have thought, everywhere our eyes have gone, every way we…