Piper’s Preaching

For the past three days I was attending a pastors’ conference in Seattle sponsored by Resurgence and Acts 29 ministries via online. What drew me to this conference is not particularly their ministries or Mark Driscoll but John Piper. To be more specific, the topics that Piper was asked to preach (which I’m grateful to [...]

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Reasons Why We Should Not Worry – Part 4

IV. The Certainty of Our Creator
Specifically, I’m referring to who God is and what he does. And this is not difficult to figure out since it is a natural flow of logic from the previous point. By examining God’s myriad of creations we realize that God is big, smart, wise, powerful, and supremely glorious. Moreover, [...]

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Reasons Why We Should Not Worry – Part 3

III. Certainty of the Creations
We should not worry about life because everything in this realm of God’s created and physical life will pass away, and that is absolutely certain. Notice Jesus repeats the noun life twice in this one verse (v. 25). Such repetition and emphasis are important to observe. And both times Jesus uses [...]

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Reasons Why We Should Not Worry – Part 2

II. The Certainty of Christ
Look with me again to the text: “For this reason” (which refers to the certainty of the context) “I say to you” (the certainty of Christ). We should not worry because of the one who is speaking so authoritatively and with certainty. And who is this other than our King Jesus [...]

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Reasons Why We Should Not Worry

I had the joy and privilege of preaching Matthew 6:25-32. The following is my sermon transcript.
Reasons Why We Should Not Worry
One of the goals for our Christian life is to enjoy freedom from ourselves (did you hear that?) and enjoy everlasting security in God. It is one thing to witness professing Christians live slavery to [...]

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Commit Yourself to a Local Church for the Glory of God – Part 4

IV. Responsibilities of A Church Member
Let me first read the paragraph concerning membership responsibilities from what our church’s bylaws states and then unpack them accordingly. I’m reading from Article 5, section 2, which states:

Church members shall promote the philosophy and ministry of Sovereign Grace Bible Church (Romans 15:5-6), participate regularly in the corporate worship of [...]

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Commit Yourself to a Local Church for the Glory of God – Part 3

III. How to Become a Member?

Perhaps a better way to rephrase this question is: who is qualified to be a member of a local church? I wish I can say in order to be a member at Sovereign Grace Bible Church, you need to take the pastor out to a sushi restaurant. I can [...]

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Commit Yourself to a Local Church for the Glory of God – Part 2

II. Why Should I Become a Member?
Let me give you four reasons why. First of all, I should become a member of a local church because Scripture commands it. It is true that joining a church will not save you any more than contributing financially or fulfilling religious duties such as baptism, confirmation, or whatever. [...]

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Commit Yourself to a Local Church for the Glory of God

This month our church is celebrating one year anniversary. In light of this I gave two part addresses entitled “Commit Yourself to a Local Church for the Glory of God.” The following is my sermon transcript.
As you know we celebrate our first anniversary as Sovereign Grace Bible Church this month. Hence this evening, [...]

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Music in the Church

Bob Kauflin of Sovereign Grace Music wrote an excellent blog about music in the church.

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