“Speak the Truth in Love”

October 22, 2018September 25, 2019 bigspringschurchcage-stage Calvinists, doctrines of grace, Ephesians 4, five points of Calvinism, law and gospel, proverbs, social media, speak the truth in love, three uses of the law, Tulip

Proverbs 10:19; 15:1; Ephesians 4:11-16 October 21, 2018 • Download this sermon (PDF) Dear Congregation of Christ: Guess how many things are posted by people from all over the world on Facebook daily: 293,000 statuses, 510,000 comments, and 136,000 photos. This means that people around the world will have written 422 million posts by the end of this year. How many tweets do people publish? 350,000 every minute, or 500 million per day. And to top it all off, there are over 350 million blogs on the Internet. Everyone wants…

The Christian’s Four Assurances

February 7, 2016September 25, 2019 bigspringschurchCanons of Dort, doctrines of grace, John 10, perseverance of the saints, preservation of the saints, Tulip

Jeremiah 32:36-41; John 10:28-30 (text); Romans 8:30-39 February 7, 2016 • Download this sermon (PDF) Beloved congregation of Christ: About twenty years ago, I taught a high school Bible class at a school for missionary children in the Philippines. Sometime after teaching the doctrines of grace to the class, including the perseverance of the saints, one of my students told me what another missionary taught them in a Bible study for youth. He asked the teacher about this doctrine from John 10:29, “no one is able to snatch them…