Cross Of Grace

When it comes to sharing the gospel with others, guilt is a terrible incentive. Jesus doesn’t call us to evangelize out of guilt, but out of gratitude, out of joy, out of grace. How does our gratitude grow? By seeing the truth afresh, looking again at what God has done in your life. Seeing how God has gloriously, graciously reconciled you to Himself.

The First Advent guarantees the Second Advent. The manger points us to the throne. That God fulfilled His promise to send the Messiah the first time proves that God is sovereign and faithful to His promises, and that guarantees Jesus is coming again! And when He does, He will make all things new.

Trust Jesus to be your defense. His cross says two things about us: It says we are sinners who deserve that kind of death. And at the same time, the cross says Jesus loves us so much He took that death for us. In Him, our debt is paid. Our record is cleared. The cross is the final word.

“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.” Almighty God opens the portals of time and space and shows Isaiah a glimpse of this great promise fulfilled. As if seeing two realities at the same time, Isaiah describes the darkness and desperation he could see all around him then and there. But there was an even greater reality, one that would soon take place, the reality of the promised Messiah to come.

This week's guest speaker Justin Lakemacher unpacks Titus 2:11-14 to show us "The Gospel of Grace for the Enslaved".

The whole book of Exodus is about God wanting to be with His people. God rescuing a people, making covenant with that people, and wanting to come down and live among those people. That’s what the people were promised, and that’s what they were waiting on – for God to come down and dwell with them.

When Moses came down from the mountain, his face was shining from being in God’s presence. Moses asked to see God’s glory. Instead, God gives Moses something better. He reveals who He is. And Moses would never be the same. The greatest thing God can give us is Himself, to let us truly know Him.

Guest pastor Chris Oswald uses Colossians 1:9-16 to consider, what it does it mean to be saved?

From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible reveals a gracious and glorious God who accomplishes all his plans for good. The aim of this course is to help you see and savor the Christ-centered story that unfolds in Scripture, describe its stages, and articulate its big idea: For his glory, God is reconciling the world to himself under King Jesus.

Without God’s presence, Moses didn’t want the promised land. He valued God over what God could give. You and I have something Moses did not. We have the Holy Spirit living inside of us, His very presence empowering us for a purpose.

From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible reveals a gracious and glorious God who accomplishes all his plans for good. The aim of this course is to help you see and savor the Christ-centered story that unfolds in Scripture, describe its stages, and articulate its big idea: For his glory, God is reconciling the world to himself under King Jesus.

The Hebrews were blinded by their longing for a god they could see and control. Jesus came not only to open our eyes to the false gods we chase, but also to reveal to us the One True God who saves. Because of Him, the sin we once reveled in, we now mourn. And the mystery of the gospel we once dismissed, we now treasure.

From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible reveals a gracious and glorious God who accomplishes all his plans for good. The aim of this course is to help you see and savor the Christ-centered story that unfolds in Scripture, describe its stages, and articulate its big idea: For his glory, God is reconciling the world to himself under King Jesus.

“The Bronze Basin and the Golden Altar were both places of prayer and reflection. Self examination is good, but only if we see ourselves the way Christ does - loved and forgiven. Condemnation can never take hold when we focus on the cross."

God intended the garments of the high priest in the Old Testament to be an outward sign, a visual aid, to remind the people of two major things: The priest represented God before the people. And, the priest represented the people before God. But over and over, human priests failed. God knew we would need a perfect High Priest. We would need Jesus.

“We never ‘get beyond the gospel’ in our Christian life to something more ‘advanced.’ The gospel is not the first ‘step’ in a ‘stairway’ of truths, rather, it is more like the ‘hub’ in a ‘wheel’ of truth. The gospel is not just the A-B-C’s but the A-Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom, but the way we make progress in the kingdom.” Tim Keller The Apostle Paul knew that the gospel was of "first impo...

"As much as the Bronze Altar represented death and judgment for sin, it was also a merciful reminder that God allowed for the blood of a substitute sacrifice to cover the sin of the guilty person who broke God’s law. This would point forward to the Sacrifical Substitue of God’s own Son, who would not only cover our sin, but cleanse us completely."

“We never ‘get beyond the gospel’ in our Christian life to something more ‘advanced.’ The gospel is not the first ‘step’ in a ‘stairway’ of truths, rather, it is more like the ‘hub’ in a ‘wheel’ of truth. The gospel is not just the A-B-C’s but the A-Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom, but the way we make progress in the kingdom.” Tim Keller The Apostle Paul knew that the gospel was of "first impo...

"The veil in the tabernacle separated God from man. At the moment of Jesus’ death, the temple veil was torn in two, from top to bottom. Torn from the top, to signify this was not man’s doing, but it was done by God. And torn, to show that the chasm, the separation between a holy God and sinful man was now reconciled through the final sacrifice of God’s own Son."

The Tabernacle of Moses in the OT was not only God’s lavish expression of His desire to dwell with His people. Ultimately it was meant to be a type and shadow, an illustrated sermon, a sign post pointing forward in history to when God in the flesh would come and “tabernacle” with His people through Jesus.