Encouragement to help you through the week.
Beloved, Massive tomes could be written to explain all the nuances of our second core principle – God-ordered worship. The worship of God is one of the primary themes of Scripture and it is our most important vocation as redeemed…
Beloved, Even since Tessa’s grandpa died last Tuesday, death has been up front and center. As the family grieves and prepares for the funeral, death is a reality we must stare in the face. And personally, it has been a…
Beloved, It has been a decade since Tessa and I stepped into our first worship service in an Orthodox Presbyterian congregation. It was quite a shocking experience! After weeks of brushing shoulders with these brothers and sisters in worship, it became…
Beloved, Can you believe we are already nine sermons into our series on knowing God? These introductory sermons have helped us think through what the knowledge of God is, why it matters, and how fallen creatures like us can obtain…
Beloved, As new covenant priests, there is arguably nothing more fundamental to our vocation than public worship, as we “offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ” (1 Pet. 2:5). Old covenant priests were not free to offer up…
Beloved, After a few weeks of random pastoral ramblings, we return to considering our five core principles as a congregation. To refresh your memory, those are: God-centered TheologyGod-ordered WorshipGod-delighting PietyGod-exalting GovernmentGod-dependent Mission We had just begun looking at the second…
Beloved, I will keep this short and merely ask you to pray for me. I feel like the busyness of these last couple weeks with presbytery, church life, and moving has been slowly and subtly squeezing God out of my…
Beloved, I love the doctrine of providence. What a sweet comfort to know that our Father rules over all. There are no accidents. There are no random occurrences. We are closing on our house tomorrow, and our realtor texted us…
Beloved, As I have wrestled with my AM sermon text, I am freshly astounded by the glorious goodness of our God! But to be honest, yesterday I found my heart lagging. I found myself asking, “How can I be trafficking…
Beloved, Perhaps all this recent talk of God-centered theology has left you thinking to yourself, “Isn’t the phrase unnecessarily repetitive? After all, theology refers to knowledge about God so of course it is going to be God-centered!” One wishes that…
Beloved, In my sermon this past Sunday, I quoted the definition of true theology given by Fransiscus Junius: “the knowledge or wisdom concerning divine things, divinely revealed, for the glory of God and the salvation of rational creatures.” This is…
Beloved, I intend to get back to fleshing out our core principles next week, but today I want to draw your attention more broadly to the first two of those principles: God-centered Theology: knowing the Triune God of creation and…