Category Archives: New Testament

Nunc Dimittis (Worship Service, December 24th, 2017)

Title: Nunc Dimittis

Passage: Luke 2:22-32

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: December 24th, 2017

The inspired canticle of Simeon is in Luke’s Gospel to be a faithful testimony to the baby in Simeon’s arms. And, on this Christmas Eve, this is an especially important matter for us to consider. Who was this baby arriving with Mary and Joseph to Herod’s Temple so long ago? God wants us to listen to Simeon and understand who Jesus is. 

Magnificat (Worship Service, December 17th, 2017)

Title: Magnificat

Passage: Luke 1:46-55

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: December 17th, 2017

In Mary’s song, the first word in the original is magnifies. This word sets the tone for the whole Psalm. As a whole, Mary’s song teaches us the joy of Christ’s coming. Mary calls all men to join with her joy that Christ has come. So whether you are a mature saint who has believed in Christ for a long time, or a person who has never yet believed in Christ alone for salvation, what God wants from you is to rejoice in Christ this Christmas. 

Christian’s Character (Worship Service, November 12th, 2017)

Title: Christian’s Character

Passage:  Philippians 4:4-7

Speaker: Dr. Eric White

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: November 12th, 2017

Holy Spirit Baptism/Salvation (Sunday School, November 5th, 2017)

Topic: Holy Spirit Baptism/Salvation

Speaker: Dr. Kevin T. Bauder

Service: Sunday  School

Date: November 5th, 2017

 

Washing Sin from the Soul (Worship Service, November 5th, 2017)

Title: Cleansing From Sin

Passage:  Hebrews 10:1-22

Speaker: Dr. Kevin T. Bauder

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: November 5th, 2017

 

A Baptist Catechism: Questions 48-49 (Sunday School, October 29th, 2017)

Question 48: What did God reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?

The rule which God revealed to man for his obedience, is the moral law, which is summarized in the two great commandments.

Question 49: What are the two great commandments?

The two great commandments are to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbor as ourselves. 

 

Speaker: Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday School

Date: October 29th, 2017

Glory to God Alone (Worship Service, October 29th, 2017)

Title:  Glory to God Alone

Passage:  1st Timothy 1:17

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: October 29th, 2017

While the medieval church was never so ignorant to say out loud that they did not want to give glory to God alone, the facts betrayed a different reality. I do not mention the widespread immorality and sin that spread throughout the church. By holding that Christ cooperated us to make us righteous to pacify God’s wrath, that we might rest in some way on our merits before God, that we must submit to human authority on matters of faith and practice, by the practice of indulgences, the medieval church undermined the glory of God. I want us to consider soli Deo gloria, that we would be a people who give glory to God in our salvation and in our lives.

A Baptist Catechism: Questions 46-47 (Sunday School, October 22nd, 2017)

Question 46: What shall be done to the wicked at their death?

The souls of the wicked shall at their death be cast into the torments of hell, and their bodies lie in their graves till the resurrection, and judgment of the great day. 

Question 47: What shall be done to the wicked at the Day of Judgment?

At the Day of Judgment the bodies of the wicked being raised out of their graves, shall be sentenced, together with their souls, to unspeakable torments with the devil and his angels forever. 

Speaker: Eric White

Service: Sunday School

Date: October 22nd, 2017

Grace Alone (Worship Service, October 22th, 2017)

Title: Grace Alone

Passage:  Ephesians 2:4-10

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: October 22th, 2017.

The passage I have selected for today’s message on grace is from one of the most well-known and clear attestations of the riches of Christ’s grace to us in all of holy Scripture. To help them sense the spiritual beauty of what has happened to them in Christ, he breaks open the chapter with a frank yet profound description of their condition apart from Christ. Yet we begin to feel the good news of God’s grace right away in this passage with the opening two words of v 4: But God. For there is no good news, no grace, no glorious but God, until we have come to terms with who we are apart from him. Altogether, I hope to show that no man is saved but by grace alone. 

Christ Alone (Worship Service, October 15th, 2017)

Title: Christ Alone

Passage:  John 14:1-7

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: October 15th, 2017

Indulgences led to confidence in a merit apart from Christ. In his classic the Institutes of the Christian ReligionJohn Calvin critiqued the Catholic doctrine of penance. He said Catholics held ‘that there are many helps by which we may redeem sins: tears, fasting, offerings, and works of charity. With these we must propitiate the Lord. … With these we must merit his pardon. For although he has forgiven the guilt through the largeness of his mercy, yet by the discipline of his justice we retains punishment. … When the Scripture says, ‘by the name of Christ,’ it means that we bring nothing, we claim nothing of our own, but rely solely upon the commendation of Christ” (3.4.25). This is a crucial Reformation doctrine. We claim nothing of our own, but rely solely upon the commendation of Christ. This is the matter of today’s sermon. Our whole salvation rests on Jesus Christ and him alone.