Main Point: Every human being is a slave – either a slave of sin, or a slave of Christ. Slaves of sin receive their wages: more sin and death. Slaves…
The Presentation: Salvation is Here
December 28, 2025
Main Point: Jesus has ended our waiting. Salvation is no longer coming, it is here. And we must respond. Outline: Jesus Fulfills the Covenant Jesus Redeems His Servants Jesus Reveals…
The Nativity
December 21, 2025
Main Point: The manger reveals a King whose worth is unshaken by his humility and whose glory is magnified in being worshiped by the lowly. Outline: 1. A King with…
The Annunciation: God at Work
December 14, 2025
Main Point: The annunciation reveals that the incarnation is wholly God’s work— by His grace, through His Son, by His Spirit, and in His power—for the salvation of the world.…
Main Point: The believer’s union with Christ calls for a fundamental reordering of our relationship to every thought, desire, and action that is contrary to God’s law. Outline: 1. How…
Main Point: The Christian is given a new identity in Jesus Christ – one that has been freed from sin and is now set against a life of sin and…
While all mankind are born “in Adam” and face the death that was promised to Adam in his sin, we are offered the opportunity to be “in Christ” instead.
All people share both the guilt and the corruption of Adam’s first sin, and this imputed guilt and inherited corruption reveal why we need Christ’s righteousness and grace—because only in the second Adam can our guilt be forgiven and our nature renewed.
Rom. 5:12 ¶ Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— Rom. 5:13…
Passage: Romans 5:6-8 Rom. 5:6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. Rom. 5:7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous…