Sermon summary: At Calvary, God tears the curtain of the flesh of his beloved Son Jesus on the cross, and he tears the curtain of the temple that stood in front of the Holy of Holies. Has God torn the curtain that lies over your heart to understand and experience the salvation that flows from the sufferings of Christ? Sermon text: Now from the sixth hour there was darkness … [Read more...]
Gospel Driven Parenting (Ephesians 6:4)
For the past five years now, I have been praying for the salvation of my grandchildren, after twenty years of praying for salvation of my own children. I pray weekly for the salvation of the children of church members. Coupled with this, I pray daily for the parents of my grandchildren—and I pray weekly for the parents of the children of fellow church members. If I was asked … [Read more...]
Children, Obey Your Parents (Ephesians 6:1–4)
If you frequent the news media, the name Charlie Gard is probably familiar to you. This baby boy was born on 4 August 2016 and, by all appearances, was healthy. A couple of months later, severe health issues became evident and Charlie was diagnosed with mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, a rare inherited condition that causes muscle weakness and loss of motor skills. … [Read more...]
Marriage on Monday (Ephesians 5:30–33)
I want to begin this study with a question that may come with a bit of a punch, but which is an important question: Is there a dichotomy between what we do as we gather on a Sunday and how we live our marriages on Monday? Perhaps for some there is even a difference between what happens in the church building and what happens on the drive home from Lord’s Day worship. For far … [Read more...]
The Gospel-Driven Husband (Ephesians 5:25–32)
In one of his many sermons on the Ephesians marriage text, Martyn Lloyd-Jones writes, How many of us have realized that we are always to think of the married state in terms of the doctrine of the atonement? Is that our customary way of thinking of marriage—husbands, wives, all of us? Is that how we instinctively think of marriage—in terms of the doctrine of the … [Read more...]