3 sermons · All speakers
Who is Jesus?
Hebrews 1:1–3 presents Jesus Christ as the final and supreme revelation of God — prophet, priest, and king — whose identity is not negotiable. This sermon exposes the bankruptcy of reductive or sentimental views of Christ and argues that the message and the messenger are inseparable: to accept Jesus is to accept his exclusive claims. The exposition works through Christ's appointment as heir of all things, his role as creator and sustainer of the universe, his purging of sin as the perfect high priest, and his present session at the Father's right hand as the ground of the believer's confidence.
Justification by Faith Alone
Hebrews 11:1–3 defines faith not as wishful thinking but as an absolute, rock-solid certainty in the promises of God — the present essence of a future reality. Beginning with the historical crisis of Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms in 1521, this exposition traces the Reformation recovery of sola fide through the three classical components of saving faith drawn from the Reformers: notitia (knowledge of the gospel facts), assensus (intellectual assent to those facts), and fiducia (personal trust placed in Christ alone). The sermon argues that justification by faith alone has been God's singular means of saving his people across all of redemptive history, from Abraham through the hall of faith in Hebrews 11. Hearers are urged to examine whether they have moved beyond mere knowledge and agreement to genuine trust in the finished work of Jesus Christ.
The Dangers of Pragmatism
Pragmatism as a worldview — the conviction that 'what works' replaces 'what is true' — poses a constant threat to faithful Christian living and ministry. This sermon expounds Deuteronomy 31–34, tracing Moses' fatal act of pragmatic disobedience at the waters of Meribah (Numbers 20) and its severe but merciful consequence: exclusion from Canaan. Drawing on 1 Corinthians 3, the sermon argues that believers' post-conversion works will be judged by fire, and that Moses' death on Nebo — attended by God himself — is the Old Testament portrait of a servant who suffered loss yet was never abandoned by the covenant Lord. The abiding application is this: obey God's commanded means, not merely his commanded ends, and rest in the assurance that nothing can separate the justified sinner from the love of God in Christ.