May 30, 2020

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Sermons

Combined Pentecost Service

This weekend it’s Pentecost!Pentecost means ‘fifty,’ and it’s a time in the Church calendar year where we celebrate the arrival; of the Holy Spirit roughly fifty days after the crosswork of Jesus that brought forgiveness for sins and reconciliation with God. At Pentecost we remember that God came to us in an unfathomably special way:

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May 24, 2020

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Craig Verdouw, Sermons

God In Us!

We ended last week with some insane news: “the righteous requirement of the law [can] be fully met in us!” What a gospel! This wonder of wonders, that gets graciously laid upon sinners made clean, is from God, through Jesus, by the Holy Spirit. Yes! Our Three-In-One God Himself is the way-paver, + actively operates

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May 17, 2020

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Craig Verdouw, Sermons

Guilty Or Not Guilty?

Despite indwelling sin and living amongst daily failures, God’s verdict on Christians is “NOT GUILTY.” He is very, very loud about this. Not guilty. Not condemned. This is because the punishment has been fully spent, completely exhausted, poured in full measure on Christ. But we were not freed to remain enslaved. The door wasn’t unlocked

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May 8, 2020

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Craig Verdouw, Sermons

Inherent Inabilities

In our text this week Paul struggles with the struggles that you yourself know! “When I want to DO good, evil is right there with me. I DELIGHT in God’s law, but I see another work in the members of my body, waging war”.This week, we look at the function of God’s + the resulting

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May 3, 2020

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Craig Verdouw, Sermons

Dead to the Law; Bound to Christ.

Maybe you’ve had a similar relationship to the Bible as I have had in time past. You pick up the Bible, open it’s pages, and within a minute it’s words condemn you. Because they aren’t you… exactly The Christian believer within its pages doesn’t describe you. The holiness within isn’t mirrored by you. We fall

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