The Lord Our Heritage

In this week’s sermon Hank Kampen, a pastor at Grace Bible Church, explores the message of Psalm 16.

Faith Which Overcomes Death

After spending three weeks considering the faith of Abraham, this Lord’s Day we will examine the faith of the three patriarchs who followed Abraham.

Why is so much less written about each of these men? Why does our author choose these particular events from the lives of Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph? What do these men share in common? Is it harder to be a second (or third or fourth) generation Christian?

The Death and Resurrection of the Son of Promise

This Lord’s Day we will consider one of the most moving events in all of Scriptural history, as God asks Abraham to sacrifice his only beloved son, Isaac. What kind of faith would make a man willing to do such a thing? Is there anything you would not give to God? Are you now experiencing a great trial of faith?

The Miraculous Birth of the Promised Son

This week we will consider how by faith, Isaac was born to a father and mother who were 100 and 90 years old.

The birth of Isaac is a picture of the miraculous birth of Christ. His birth is also a picture of our miraculous new birth by God’s sovereign power. With God nothing is impossible!

Does this mean that we can ask God for whatever we want whenever we want it? How should we exercise our faith?

Consecrated to God

This week I am diverting from our studies in 2 Samuel and will be expounding Romans 12:1-2.

I plan, on certain Sundays over the next few months, to preach through Romans 12 with a special emphasis on our love and devotion for one another in the body of Christ.

Because our love for one another springs from our devotion to the Lord, Paul starts Romans 12 by exhorting us to be living sacrifices who are not to be conformed to the world.

Of course the foundation of our devotion to the Lord is the sovereign mercy which He has shown us in Christ — which was the subject of the first 11 chapters of Romans and forms the basis of Paul’s exhortation in Romans 12:1.

Portrait of a Godless Culture: An Appeal to Repent of Sinful Boasting

We will be doing a fairly rapid overview of the first nine chapters and then drawing some application from near the end of chapter nine, where Jeremiah writes, “Thus says the LORD, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.” (9:23-24).

Jeremiah’s theme leading to these texts is that of judgment: A judgment precipitated by the sinful lifestyle and arrogant living of the kingdom of Judah. The modern day parallels to our own day are truly amazing: Truly there is “nothing new under the sun.”