Growing Downward: Recent Episodes
Nick Thompson
Growing Downward is a sermon series preached by author Nick Thompson at his church, Cornerstone Presbyterian in Chattanooga, TN. These sermons laid the groundwork for his book of the same name published with Reformation Heritage Books in May 2022 — https://heritagebooks.org/products/growing-downward-the-path-of-christ-exalting-humility-thompson.html
In this continuation of the humility sermon series, all men are encouraged to humble themselves in the light of God's holiness.
How does our own mortality bring us to a more full understanding of humility? Listen as Pastor Nick Thompson addresses death through the reading of Psalm 90.
Is God your Holy King or a hobby to you? Are you sure of your own salvation? When you stand before God on the coming day of judgement will you have a Mediator? Listen as Pastor Nick Thompson describes how the final judgement destroys all the pride of man.
Hell is a humbling reality. It reveals the degree to which God is opposed to our pride. Jesus, the preeminent preacher of hell, teaches us in this parable (Luke 16:19-31) that hell is the agonizing and abiding destination of those who die in arrogant unbelief.
Is it appropriate for Christians to make New Year's resolutions? This sermon explores the attitude and motivation for all that Christians set out to do.
In looking back at the sins of the church in Corinth, Pastor Nick Thompson urges the modern church not to look to their pastors and scholars, but to boast in Christ alone.
God's desire is for His church to be humble. What will this look like in the church? Listen as Pastor Nick Thompson describes humility as the lifeblood of Christian love and of Christ's work.
How can the remains of our struggle with sin benefit us as Christians? Paul's continued fight against the flesh is an encouragement for all believers to rely wholly on Christ while continuing to wage war against indwelling sin.
This sermon explores the truth of how God's initiation and accomplishment of our salvation should rightfully produce a humility in believers.
This sermon explores the insanity that idolatrous, prideful sinfulness is in the heart of all humanity formed by God. Romans 1 teaches that all creatures can see God through creation and shows us the wrath and judgement of God poured out on those who choose to persist in ungodliness.
Is the church classified as a group of individuals or as one body? How are we called to love and serve one another as a body? Listen as Pastor Nick calls the church to corporate consecration, transformation, and ministration.
Why would God send a thorn to torment Paul? Does God allow His followers to hurt? What is the role of suffering in the life a believer? How does suffering lead to humility? These questions are explored through taking a close look at 2 Corinthians 12.
What does it look like for the church to show humility in a world that is hostile to the gospel? Listen as Pastor Nick expounds on the way humility must lead to gospel compassion, courage, and conversation.
What do the new heavens and new earth have to do with humility? Everything! This Spirit-transformed world is the consummation of all God's promises to the humble and will result in the perfection of this downward disposition in man.
What better place to end a sermon series on humility than by taking a good look at Jesus Christ! He is the perfect example of creaturely humility, and it is by beholding Him that we are transformed into His lowly likeness.
Pastor Nick preaches on this classic Old Testament story of proud Naaman, directed specifically to the children of the church. In viewing the story through the gospel the rich applications of humility are applied to the lives of all believers.
In this continuation of his series on humility, Pastor Nick explores how keeping the Sabbath Day holy is an act of humility and dependence on the part of creatures made in God's image.
In an in depth look at the fall, it can be said the the root sin of all sins is pride with the sinner intending to dethrone God as his maker and deny his own creatureliness.
This sermon by Nick Thompson describes how an all-powerful, sovereign God covenants with all mankind.
This sermon describes how humanity, as image bearers of God, are called to relate to its God and Creator in humility.
Humility is "a downward disposition produced by a Godward self-perception." Humility alone leads to God's blessing.