The Response to the Incarnation Report: The Substance of the Good News

12/19/2021 • Rev. Dr. Jerrard Heard • Luke 2:8-20a 8 He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts— 9 but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics. 10 And he said to them, “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you depart from there. 11 …

His Manifestation Is Salvation

12/12/2021 • Rev. Randy Martin • John 1:1-18 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was …

His Message Is Salvation

12/5/2021 • Rev. Randy Martin • Luke 1:67–79 67 And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying, 68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people 69 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, 70 as he spoke …

His Mission Is Salvation

11/28/2021 • Rev. Randy Martin • Matthew 1:18-25 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, …

The King of Salvation

Rev. Randy Martin Matthew 1:1, 17-25 1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 17 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations. 18 Now the birth …

Seeing Christ in David’s Psalm

Rev. Randy Martin • Psalm 138:1-8 • I give you thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing your praise; 2 I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word. 3 On the …

God’s Sovereignty Is Our Friend

John 4:23-31 • Rev. Randy Martin • When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, who …

The Glory of God in the Face of Christ

John 1:15-18 • Rev. Randy Martin • John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’” For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. …