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Sermon: Getting Dressed for Christmas

December 23, 2010 / 2009, Sermons

GETTING DRESSED FOR CHRISTMAS: A LITTLE HOLIDAY PREPARATION Colossians 3: 12-17 Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. December 20, 2009 Listen Outline INTRODUCTION: Holidays are frequently times when people get trapped by the expectations game. Because everyone around you assumes that the day is going to be “really good,” “special,” or “fantastic,” and is constantly telling you to have a “merry” one, it is easy to assume that having a merry Christmas is an actual possession of yours,

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Sermon: Civil Obedience in Context (Romans 13: 1-3)

April 1, 2010 / 2010, Romans, Sermons

ROMANS L: CIVIL OBEDIENCE IN CONTEXT Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. March 21, 2010 Listen PDF INTRODUCTION: As we begin the task of unpacking this crucial part of Romans, always remember the context. In the latter part of chapter 12, we saw that Paul was arguing from Dt. 32 that Moses had predicted that God would be avenged upon the Jews, and that He would use a nation that has no understanding to do it (Dt. 32:21, 35). That

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Sermon: Coals of Fire on the Head

March 9, 2010 / Romans, Sermons

COALS OF FIRE ON THE HEAD (Romans 12: 9-21) Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. February 28, 2010 Watch Listen PDF INTRODUCTION: Having discussed some of the gifts of the body, Paul moves on to exhort the Roman Christians in how the parts of the body should function together. What does it look like when the saints are being knit together in love, as they ought to be? Paul gives us a distinctively Pauline expression of a Sermon on the

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Sermon: True Members (Romans 12:4-8)

March 2, 2010 / Romans, Sermons

TRUE MEMBERS (Romans 12:4-8) Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. February 21, 2010 Watch Listen PDF INTRODUCTION: Paul now moves into a discussion of body life—a theme he treats in detail elsewhere as well (1 Cor. 12-14). This body life is organic and alive, and is not to be confused with simple administrative organization, although it is organized. With living organisms, the organizational principle arises from below, and is not imposed externally. A body forms in obedience to the mysterious instructions

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Sermon: A Living Sacrifice (Romans 12: 1-3)

February 23, 2010 / 2010, Romans, Sermons

A LIVING SACRIFICE (Romans 12: 1-3) Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. February 14, 2010 Watch Listen PDF INTRODUCTION: As we have worked through this epistle we have seen certain characteristics of Paul’s turn of mind. We now come to another one, very much in evidence throughout his letters. His pattern of teaching is this—doctrine precedes ethics, and is foundational to it. He teaches us what we must believe (credenda, things to be believed), and then he goes on to teach

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Sermon: The Wise Men and the Nations

December 31, 2009 / 2009, Sermons

THE WISE MEN AND THE NATIONS Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. December 27, 2009 Listen Outline INTRODUCTION: This part of the Christmas story is not a stand alone story. In the narrative, we find a type of how all the rulers of this world will eventually come to kiss the Son

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Sermon: Tidings of Comfort & Joy (Isaiah 40: 1-8)

December 13, 2009 / 2009, Sermons

TIDINGS OF COMFORT AND JOY Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. December 13, 2009 Watch Listen Outline INTRODUCTION: Last Lord’s Day, the message was brought to us from the conclusion of Isaiah 40, and we learned from that message that there are two kinds of waiting. There is a waiting that causes our strength to dissipate, and there is a waiting that gathers our strength for us. There is a waiting that renews, an anticipation that is full

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Sermon: Waiting on the Lord (Isaiah 40: 27-31)

December 6, 2009 / 2009, Sermons

ISAIAH 40:27-31 Dr. David Field Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. December 6, 2009 Isaiah 40:27-31 27Why do you say, O Jacob,and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD and my right is disregarded by my God”? 28Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. 29He gives power to the faint, and

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Sermon: And the Rest Were Blinded (Romans 11: 7 -11)

November 29, 2009 / 2009, Romans, Sermons

ROMANS XLI: AND THE REST WERE BLINDED Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. November 29, 2009 INTRODUCTION: So we have learned that there are two Israels, formed as a result of two different ways of “hearing” the Word of God. One hears the Word in a way that quickens true faith, and the other hears (after a fashion) in a way that hardens the heart in a persistent but wrong-headed pursuit of God—because it is a pursuit of

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Sermon: Deep Peril, Deep Thanksgiving (Dt. 28:45-49)

November 22, 2009 / 2009, Sermons

DEEP PERIL, DEEP THANKSGIVING Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. November 22, 2009 INTRODUCTION: We sometimes try to cultivate the right heart attitude by denying the obvious challenges and perils in the world around us, and we sometimes try to pretend that we see the “real world” by adopting a cynical and artistic posture toward it all. We think that in order to have an enjoyable thanksgiving, it would have to be in an idyllic Norman Rockwell setting—a

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Sermon: Seven Thousand by Grace (Romans 11:1-6)

November 15, 2009 / 2009, Romans, Sermons

ROMANS XL: SEVEN THOUSAND BY GRACE Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. November 15, 2009 INTRODUCTION: In times of spiritual declension—which we are certainly in—it is very easy to fall into the trap that Elijah fell into. Flatterers and false teachers always tell us that things are far better than we think, but when we work our way past their lies, we often have to be reassured by God Himself that things are not nearly as bad as

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Sermon: And Hearing by the Word of God (Romans 10:14-21)

November 8, 2009 / 2009, Romans, Sermons

ROMANS XXXIX: AND HEARING BY THE WORD OF GOD Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. November 8, 2009 INTRODUCTION: In this portion of Romans, we start to see the intersection of two realities—decretal realities and covenantal realities. This will come to full flower in the next chapter, but we see it begin here. God is utterly sovereign, and rightly understood, this means that when He chooses to use created instruments to accomplish His purposes, we do not have

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Sermon: The Gospel Stone (Romans 10:5-13)

November 1, 2009 / 2009, Romans, Sermons

ROMANS XXXVIII: THE GOSPEL STONE Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. November 1, 2009 INTRODUCTION: If Christ is the stone, then the message of Christ is the message stone. People confess with their mouth and are saved, and people stumble over the words of grace and are lost forever. Preaching the stone is therefore a preaching of a gospel stone, and not a gospel cushion or pillow. The stone, when it is good news, is a stone. The

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Sermon: The Little One in our Midst (Mt 18: 1-20)

October 25, 2009 / 2009, Sermons

REFORMATION SUNDAY 2009: THE LITTLE ONE IN OUR MIDST Toby Sumpter Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. October 25, 2009 Listen Outline INTRODUCTION It’s well known that the Protestant Reformers instigated an overhaul of the Roman church system. Luther recovered justification by faith, the centrality of Christ’s life/death/resurrection was reasserted, and right celebration and understanding of the sacraments was worked toward. It’s less well known that the Reformers also worked toward a recovery of faithful Church discipline. One of the great church discipline

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Sermon: The End of the Law (Romans 10:1-4)

October 18, 2009 / 2009, Romans, Sermons

ROMANS XXXVII: THE END OF THE LAW Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. October 18, 2009 INTRODUCTION: We have already seen that Christ is the foundation stone and the stumbling stone, depending. For the one who believes, He is the foundation of all. For the one who does not believe in Him, He is the rock of offense. ROMANS 10: 1-4: THE END OF THE LAW Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. October 18, 2009 Watch

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