What difference does the empty tomb make? This message was preached on Easter Sunday, 2004, at Westside Bible Fellowship in Hillsboro, OR. Luke 23:50-24:12

Questions that are foundational to everything Preached at UCCF North East CU Leaders Training Weekend

Grace, gospel, life. Good news, pure and simple.

Sin is so bad, God's grace had better be enough! As the apostles gather to wrestle with that question, the future of the gospel is at stake . . .

How dead are we in our trespasses and sins? How serious is sin? And is there any hope?

So if God is relational and we are relational, why don't we have a hearty relationship with God from birth? Let's probe the problem: it is worse than you realised! Acts 26:18-20

Paul's prayer for the young believers is a great prayer for us all: to know God. What does that actually mean?

Who is made in whose image? Big question. Acts 17:28-29

Paul's beginners guide to Christianity begins with a celebration of the Father's choosing and lavishing His grace on us by His Son and Spirit.

What are the foundational questions for all of reality? Here we begin the series by asking the most important question anyone can ever ask . . . the God question!

What does it mean to be a leader like Christ? A look at a classic text that says so much to us today!

Carol service and finally the message of the heavenly host - so what is this peace that God has made possible on earth?

Carol service ... two more witnesses to the significance of the boy child. But can we "do a Simeon?"

The Benedictus, the great song composed by Zechariah over nine long, quiet months, with his scroll of Malachi open on the table and his growing wife eager to meet her special so...

Mary's Magnificat - a song of a great God caring for the lowliest of folk, like her. Much has been made of Mary, but perhaps that misses the very point of the passage!

What was Zechariah bursting to say when he walked dumbfounded out of the temple? Three things, each more amazing than the first. He had a profound sense of what Christmas was re...

An interactive sermon on Ruth 3 - what could God work out for Naomi's longer term issue? What should we learn from the encounter between Ruth and Boaz that night? Aren't we supp...

Naomi had two problems, and the immediate one was food. How would God provide for her and Ruth? We may take food for granted, but this passage reminds us of the need to pray "Gi...

What do you do when life utterly devastates you? When you can barely take a breath, which way do you lean? When you don't know why, then what? The first in a series of four on R...

Delighted by God 2012 What was really bothering Luther, was it the selling of indulgences? Or was it a theology of glory that was the opposite of what the Bible presents? What ...

Delighted by God 2012 The gospel is simple - we give it all up for Jesus and receive salvation. Oh wait, that is not the gospel. It's way better than that!

Delighted by God 2012 What was so glorious about the gospel that gripped the life of Martin Luther? Cor Deo mentor Ron Frost introduces the day with a taste of Luther's Freedom...

Delighted by God 2012 How did the gospel work back before the Reformation? Has it changed? How glorious is the gospel, and what difference does that make to our motivation for ...

Delighted by God 2012 Is the Prodigal Son story the ground zero gospel narrative, or is it a denial of the core elements of the gospel?

What difference does Paul's teaching on the New Covenant make? How about if it made church a delight to be involved in? Galatians 6

What is the secret to the Christian life? What does it mean to have the Spirit at work in us? Galatians 5:16-26

Was Paul soft on sin? Was his message imbalanced? Here Paul summarizes the body of the letter and shifts the focus back to the Galatians so that the "so what" can be presented ....

What does it mean to be under the promise instead of under the law? What is the Christian life all about? Galatians 4:1-31

Why doesn't the Law serve to increase righteousness in our lives? What does it mean that we were crucified with Christ? What is the key to Christian salvation and spirituality? ...

Paul's passion for the Gospel and love for the believers is profoundly stirring, but was he a full apostle? Did he preach the whole message? Galatians starts with a bang and gr...

Baptism Message What would explain why someone would want to be baptised? They got religion? This message takes the "most religious" book in the NT and discovers that salvation...

Concluding the series from Romans, how much of salvation depends on us? Romans 10:1-13

Not only given right-standing and reconciled, but adopted? What does that look like? What does it mean? Romans 8:14-17

To be saved is not just about legal benefits, but an amazing personal opportunity . . . in a world obsessed with power, position, possessions and popularity, we can have the mos...

The first in a four-part series on the gospel. We all care what others think of us, but what does God think of us? At some point in life, we all care about that too! Romans 3:1...

Ron speaks here on a key passage in Ephesians 4, looking at how God transforms us from the heart out. A good taste of the theology we enjoy so much at Cor Deo!

Delighted by God 2011 As Christians we only have two options when it comes to deciding which God to worship - which do you find more attractive?

Delighted by God 2011 To finish the day, Peter looks at John 4 to see what will deeply satisfy. Not just what will satisfy the world out there, but the sometimes surprisingly d...

Delighted by God 2011 What does the "heavenly" Richard Sibbes have to offer us in relation to being Delighted By God?

Delighted by God 2011 Peter Sanlon, of Oakhill Theological College, looks at the Transformative Power of the Bible through the lens of Augustine.

Who is Jesus? What does it mean to follow him? In Mark we see Jesus' power and Jesus' passion . . . and in order to follow he needs to overcome our sin problem. If he could do t...

Surely Jesus dead and buried isn't the way the story was supposed to end? It didn't, the tomb was empty, Jesus rose . . . and then? Well, Mark 16:8, is that how the story is sup...

Mark's passion is a stark account, with a recurring emphasis. Jesus only speaks once from the cross, but what a moment, what a climactic moment in the whole of Mark's gospel.

Why did Jesus arrive in Jerusalem as He did, only to head back out the same day? Was this perhaps a deliberate move, rather than a spontaneous celebration?

Habakkuk 3:1-19 The grand finale of Habakkuk's great conversation with God. Which way will we go?

Who you think Jesus is, will determine how you follow Him! Do our lives reflect the right side up radicality of the Jesus we claim to follow? Or does the evidence suggest the ch...

So why did Jesus keep telling people to keep his identity quiet? What kind of a messiah is He? And what do the disciples still need to know when they think they know? Mark 8:22-33

Habakkuk 2:2-20 So can God, will God, use the ungodly for His greater goals? Habakkuk 2 is a powerful encounter with God, five woes ringing out against, well, against who?

So if Jesus is in the boat, does that mean all our troubles will be fixed? Life seems to say no. So how can this story be such a massive reassurance to fearful Christians withou...