SERMONS
At Veritas we are committed to preaching and teaching each week from the Bible about Jesus. Each week we post our sermons online for those of us who are unable to attend our weekly gatherings.
This week we begin our study of James and ask the questions:
Who is James?
What happened in his life that made himself as a servant rather than a brother of Jesus?
Why did James write this letter?
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Conflict is something we all experience (regularly), but often handle in very fleshly ways. The gospel gives us a pattern and a means to healthy conflict resolution.
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Following Jesus means preferring him to everything else. If we love something Jesus provides for us more than we love him then we are idolaters! Idolatry means we’ve made an idol out of something - we prefer it to Jesus. If we are to address the idols of our heart we are going to have to come to grips with our own weaknesses and we will have to expose to others.
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Today we look at repentance. In our culture, this usually sounds like a bad thing, but repentance is the norm for gospel-centered living. Becoming more aware of God’s holiness and our sinfulness leads us to repent and believe the gospel of Jesus. Biblical repentance frees us from our own devices and makes a way for the power of the gospel to bear fruit in our lives.
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We are continuing to think about how the gospel interacts with our lives, but now we turn to consider the gospel’s relationship to the law. What is the law? Does God expect me to obey it? What is the purpose of the law? How does the law help me to believe the gospel? How does the gospel help me to obey the law? These are the questions we’ll dive into today.
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Each of us tends to “shrink the cross,” which is to say that something is lacking in our understanding, appreciation, or application of Jesus’ sacrifice for our sin. This manifests itself in two main ways: pretending and performing. Pretending minimizes sin by making ourselves out to be something we are not. Performing minimizes God’s holiness by reducing his standard to something we can meet, thereby meriting his favor. Both are rooted in an inadequate view of God’s holiness and our identity.
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If the gospel is constantly “bearing fruit and growing” (Col. 1:6), then everything has to do with the gospel—God, humanity, salvation, worship, relationships, shopping, recreation, work, personality...everything! The objective of this first part of the series is to establish a framework for talking about the gospel. This framework will get worked out in greater detail over the next two weeks, so this lesson is designed to help us understand the concepts and begin exploring how they relate to actual life.
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In John 4 we see Jesus have an unlikely interaction with a woman at a well. Jesus pursues this woman with intentionality, with compassion and with the truth and it changes everything for this woman and an entire town. How does his pursuit of us motivate our pursuit of one another?
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What does the Bible have to say about generosity with our finances? What is tithe, and do we have to do it? This week we looked at what the Bible says about money and how we respond to the grace of Jesus as God’s people.
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We come now to the end of Exodus and see God’s promise to dwell with his people fulfilled as he fills the tabernacle...and all of this points us to a greater Exodus and to a time where God will dwell with his people in an even more unique and profound way.
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In Exodus 19 & 20, we see God giving the law from Mt. Sinai. This leads us to ask the question, "What is the purpose of the law for us?".
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John Murphy preaches on our vision for 2018 from Titus 2:11-15 “Saved by Grace, changed by grace.”
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Most of us agree that we should read the Bible, but why? And how? We talked about that and our Bible Reading plan in this week’s sermon.
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