[Sermon audio here.] Theme: Jesus is the royal fulfillment of Scripture as our Savior from sin The Bible cannot be read just like any book. We do not have the liberty to make the Bible say whatever we want it to say. Instead, Scripture has one unified message of salvationContinue Reading
[Sermon audio found here.] Theme: The fear of God produces wisdom that leads to salvation. Are we to fear God as Christians? Is fear compatible with faith and love? Weren’t OT believers the only ones to fear God? Besides, those were the days of Moses and the exacting laws ofContinue Reading
[Sermon audio here.] Most of us have at some point in our lives been shocked and appalled at the suffering in this world. You drive past the mangled body on the side of the road. Your neighbour is beaten to near death for his cell-phone. Another helpless girl is gang-raped. Continue Reading
[Audio for this sermon can be found here.] Most people are left struggling with a measure of guilt when they do something wrong, especially when their actions hurt someone else. The question is: How does one deal with this guilt? The answer our popular culture gives is either ignore itContinue Reading
[Audio for this sermon available here.] How do we relate the Old Testament to the New? Because things are so much better in the NT, it can be tempting to downplay the importance of the OT or disregard it altogether. A close reading of the NT, however, reveals that itContinue Reading
[Sermon audio available here.] The scandal of Christianity is that central to its message is suffering and death. Suffering and death are the two things that the world tries to avoid at all costs. What our society values is in many respects the opposite of what Christianity holds dear. PopularContinue Reading
There are different kinds of pleasures in this life, and then there is what the Bible describes as joy. Can you imagine the rush of pleasure that Adam felt when he ate of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden? For a moment, he must have felt like heContinue Reading
There is nothing quite like song to make you remember. God made it this way. Therefore, it is little wonder that God had Moses compose a song to help his chosen people, Israel, remember the essence of God’s covenant made at Mt. Sinai. The Song of Witness was to serveContinue Reading
What does your baptism mean to you? In the early church, baptism was taken very seriously. It was not uncommon for new converts to Christianity – known as “Catechumens” – to spend up to three years learning the fundamentals of the faith before being baptised into God’s covenant community. Unfortunately,Continue Reading
It is commonly accepted that if we claim something to be true about someone or something, we must be able to prove it. The bigger the claim, the more evidence required and the stricter the process of verification. For instance, an immigrations officer is not just going to just acceptContinue Reading
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