Week 4: Christ’s Rule Brings Safety

True safety and security can’t be found in earthly rulers—they will always come up short. But in Christ’s Kingdom, we find forgiveness, love and a ruler who directs all things for our eternal good. It’s only under the gracious rule of Christ in our hearts that we find true, eternal safety.

Week 3: Judgment Produces Perseverance

As we continue to consider God’s grace, we look at the gift of perseverance that God works in our hearts as his people. We know we need this perseverance, especially in these last difficult days as we consider the End Times. But today we see that God brings it to us through an unlikely source. Through the judgment that he warns about on the Last Day, as well as the gracious judgment that he passes on his people today through faith in Jesus, God works that perseverance in our hearts.

Week 2: Heaven Brings Comfort

As we continue our series Grace Upon Grace, we again see how the grace and blessings of God beget further grace and further blessings. Today, we consider God’s grace in the promise of heaven and what that means for our lives here on earth. We live in a broken world. We see sin and its effects all around us—and we’re part of that problem, too. But God has solved the problem of sin in Jesus, and promises that he has something far better in store for us in heaven. And as God gives us the promise of heaven to look forward to, this gives us comfort in our lives today.

Week 1: Truth Brings Freedom

As we begin a new sermon series, we will see how so often one blessing from God flows directly out of another one of God’s blessings. We see this especially clearly in the Reformation, when God worked through Martin Luther to restore his gospel to the church. By grace, God has revealed to us the saving truth of the gospel. And it’s that truth that brings us freedom from sin, death and the devil.