Scripture Alone, Grace Alone, Faith Alone, Christ Alone, To God Alone Be The Glory
Sermons by Pastor Steve Wadleigh (Page 23)
It’s easy to slip into considering ourselves more highly than others. Yet as Jesus demonstrated, if anyone is to be honored, he is first of all to be humble. For God brings down the proud and exalts the humble. Just one more area where Christianity is “upside down” from the world’s thinking.
Jesus gave us a wonderful parable in Matthew 20:1-16 about a land owner and his laborers, showing us how God is not partial to those He calls. God treats us all the same whether we come to Him as a little child or on our death bed. We often think that God owes us, but…
Jesus’s teaching on the most important question we could ever ask.
At the beginning of the Reformation when Martin Luther nailed his 95 thesis on the door of the church he became instrumental in reintroducing the world to Christ and Holy Scripture. Luther along with the other men of the Reformation determined the five solas or the five alones, sola scriptura (scripture alone), sola fide (faith alone), sola…
Christ tells us of the need to have a little child’s faith in order to receive the kingdom. This is the kind of faith where a child knows they are loved and can fully trust the ones taking care of them. This is an example Jesus uses on several occasions so it is clearly important…
Why should we persist in prayer? Oftentimes it seems that God is not listening. But that is never the case. As Jesus shows from this parable, God is always listening. Knowing this, we persist and by doing so, we are strengthened in our faith.
In His earthly ministry Jesus continually performed miraculous acts which were intended to point to His saving work and the work of the Holy Spirit who would come after Jesus ascended to Heaven. Like His disciples, many asked; “Who is this man?” The answer of course is “God”.
How are Christians to judge? With the righteous judgment of God from His Word.
Hebrews 12:1-3 “fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith”