Hope For the Anxious Heart (Matthew 6:25-34)

Key Idea: Hope for the anxious heart comes when we identify it, expose it, and fight it with our faith in Christ. Truth #1: Identify It – (v. 25) Defining anxiety: “To draw in different directions or distract. To be anxious, then, means to have a distracting care—to have our minds and hearts torn between […]

Outside Inside (Romans 2:25-29)

Key idea: All the traditions and disciplines of life are to reflect and flow from a changed heart. The Sign of Circumcision (v25) The Significance of Circumcision (vv.26-27) The Spirit of Circumcision (vv.28-29)

Beware of Hypocrisy (Romans 2:12-24)

Key Idea: The privilege of knowing God does not justify but instead reveals hypocrisy that will condemn us if we are without Christ. I. Privileged knowledge does not save (v.12-16) a. Obedience vs. Possession of the law b. The Universal Law Within II. Privileged knowledge reveals hypocrisy (v.17-24) a. Confronting hypocrisy b. Cases of hypocrisy […]

Qualifications and Standards (Romans 2:1-11)

Key Idea: God’s justice is equally applied to all, and he offers kindness equally to all and withholds His wrath that people may come to salvation. 1. The Qualifications for Judgement: Who Will Be Judged 2. The Standard for Judgment: How Sinners are Judged