Salvation, Justification, and Sanctification
Justification happens at and marks the beginning of our salvation, but it does not mark the end of salvation’s daily transformative work in our lives.
January 11, 2020
Don’t Mistake Experience for Growth
It’s a sad truth that many churches are full of people who have professed saving faith in Christ, attended and served faithfully for twenty to thirty-plus years, taught Sunday school, and read their Bibles, but have not been transformed at all. They’ve gained experience in doing Christian things but haven’t actually grown as a Christian. They’ve mistaken experience for growth.
December 10, 2019
Rediscovering Sanctification
Preaching justification without encouraging sanctification will produce nominal, stagnant Christians who are no more capable of following God ten years down the line as they were ten years before. We’ve gone wide, but now we need to go deep.
April 9, 2019
A Vision of What Could Be – Pt. 1
When we are captivated by a vision of what could be and are filled with a conviction that it should be, we are capable of achieving great and wonderful things for the glory of God.
June 5, 2017
Redemption Applied: Salvation
In this session, we walk through the order of salvation: election, effectual call, regeneration, conversion, justification, adoption, sanctification, perseverance, and glorification.
November 7, 2016
Your Selfies Are Ruining You
In a faith that requires all of its adherents to deny themselves, pick up their crosses, and follow Christ, constantly putting ourselves in the spotlight is completely antithetical to our calling. We are supposed to “do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than [our]selves” (Philippians 2:3). It’s hard to see how posting a constant barrage of selfies embodies this principle.
May 29, 2016