The Culture of Death and the Spread of Sin

Scripture Reading: 2 Timothy 3:13-17

13 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it 15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Sermon Outline:

  1. The Culture of Death

  2. Sin Grows and Grows

  3. The Slippery Slope of Death

  4. Wise unto salvation

When Does Life Begin? Sanctity of Human Life Sunday 2023

Sermon Outline: Sanctity of Human Life Sunday

  1. Why this question matters

  2. The answers of Common Grace

  3. The answer of the Bible

  4. The Gospel and Abortion

Scripture Reading: Psalm 139:1-18

1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
    you discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down
    and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue,
    behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
You hem me in, behind and before,
    and lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
    it is high; I cannot attain it.

Where shall I go from your Spirit?
    Or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
    If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
If I take the wings of the morning
    and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
    and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
    and the light about me be night,”
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
    the night is bright as the day,
    for darkness is as light with you.

13 For you formed my inward parts;
    you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.[a]
Wonderful are your works;
    my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
    intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
    the days that were formed for me,
    when as yet there was none of them.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
    How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
    I awake, and I am still with you.

Pro-Life in All of Life - 1 Peter 2:15

This week’s sermon begins with a testimony. Due to a recording error the beginning of the testimony is not on the MP3. The full testimony can be heard on the youtube video.

Scripture Reading: 1 Peter 2:11-17

11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation. 13 Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, 14 or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. 15 For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. 16 Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. 17 Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

Sermon Outline: Pro-Life In All Of Life

  1. The Critique

  2. Responding to the Critique

  3. Consistency and Character

  4. The Highest Expression of Life

Abortion and Child Sacrifice, Sanctity of Human Life Sunday 2021

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Scripture Readings: (1) Deuteronomy 12:29-31 (2) Jeremiah 19:3-8

Sermon Outline:

1. the Bible speaks often of child sacrifice

2. It is an extremely wicked sin against God

3. it was learned from the wickedness of the pagan nations

4. It is connected to sexual sin

5. It is connected to Idolatry

6. Gospels true and false

Sanctity of Life Sunday, Men and Abortion

Scripture Readings - (1) Matt 18:1-6 (2) Phil 2:3-8

Matthew 18:1-6

18 At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Philippians 2:3-8

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Sermon Outline - Men and Abortion

  1. Abortion Rhetoric and Men

  2. Jesus the Creator

  3. Jesus the Redeemer

  4. Jesus the Example