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This is a special sermon message about our one year goal for New Albany Presbyterian Church from Pastor David Milroy. Our one year goal “to grow as spiritual leaders for service within our families, church and community” is a lifelong pursuit intimately tied to humility.
Our God and His creation are incomparably great, and joyful gratitude for life is the only proper response.
We will have enemies in this life. Our aim is not to take vengeance for ourselves but to give our conflicts over to God. And when we are overwhelmed and helpless, our Lord is a God who saves those in danger.
Jesus mercifully and gently reinstates Peter after his three-fold denial, and then calls him to costly discipleship (just like us).
The hope we have in Jesus' return and in our own future resurrection should fuel our purity and obedience.
Walking with God includes ongoing acknowledgement and repentance of sin so that we may grow in righteousness.
The Good News of salvation in Christ brings fellowship with God and eternal life and joy. It is a message we must proclaim.
Friendships, with each other and with those in our community, are central to our evangelism and discipleship.
If you are a Christian, you are a disciple. And if you are a disciple, you are commanded to make disciples.
We strive for excellence in our efforts to serve the Lord in our internal and external ministries.
From the very beginning, the scriptures have always been about Jesus, the Word of God, even if we didn’t know it at first. And everything he did from the beginning of creation to now was to make us his own children.”
Unlike the empty promises of the world, the birth of Jesus brings present and eternal peace. But before we receive that peace, there must be war.
Jesse's descendant will bring peace to a world riven by conflict. In Christ, we are offered peace with God, with each other, and with ourselves.
In the darkest moment of human history - when Adam and Eve brought sin into the world through their disobedience - the Father gives a prophecy of hope concerning the future salvation coming through his Son.
Jesus' ministry of salvation by atonement is free and joyous for those who receive it, and it is for the purpose of our sanctification and witness to His goodness.
Our willingness to unashamedly conform to the moral standards of the Word of God rather than the standards of the world, and to hold one another accountable to these Biblical standards, sets us apart as a different kind of community. This will be compelling to those who are submitted to God, and repelling to those who are not.
Our witness to the watching world is heavily dependent upon our love for one another and our willingness to humbly serve together.
The message of the Gospel will only be recognized as true and powerful to those who are called. Therefore we should not be ashamed if people reject it, nor should we try to adapt it to the times in which we live to make it more appealing.
God has a plan for our church, and for us as individuals, to see many in this city who are His people come to faith in Christ.
God knows us inside and out. He is omniscient, omnipresent, eternal and outside of time. The fact that he knows our every thought, intention, act, and motive will either give us great comfort and joy, or feel oppressive and threatening. And this depends on whether we know His love.
Blessing the Lord is the only appropriate response to His amazing goodness, and the best way to endure our own mortality.
God is patient, kind, and the rock of our salvation. He is also not to be trifled with or presumed upon. Therefore we have soft hearts toward His voice and we gladly, thankfully worship Him.
The Lord, who is perfect and powerful, has chosen us as his treasured people. He provides for us and is ever present with us. The only fitting response is to praise him.
Psalm 143 is a Penitential psalm; that is, a psalm expressing repentance, and serves as an example of how we can: look to God, look at our sin, and look at our circumstances - in that order.
We are called to work hard to accomplish the things God has set before us, and we do this work knowing our limits and trusting His sovereignty. This includes the critically important, slow, often thankless task of raising children, which yields incredible blessings in the long run.
Human conflict and relational friction are part of life. We should not minimize the real pain of relationships that break down, but we also do not put our hope in getting along with everyone. Instead of fearing man, we trust God, toughen up, and practice the virtue of gratitude.
The pursuit of joy in God is carried out over a lifetime, with many challenges. Sin tempts, trials and tragedies assail. In daily life, we worship. In difficult times, we must remind ourselves of the steadfast love of God, and the sure hope of salvation.
God is our great Shepherd who cares for us, provides for us, disciplines us, and who will provide all that we need, including our eternal home with Him.
The one who builds his or her life on the Word of God will prosper, but the one who does not will perish.
In an age of distrust and skepticism toward church leadership, Christians are to respond with obedience and submission. And all the while, we must pray the Lord continues to form them into the godly leaders we need.
We are exhorted to look to Christian role models as we look to Christ, to rely on grace and not works, and to courageously sacrifice in His service with our words and deeds.
Having given twelve chapters of rich Christological doctrine, the preacher of Hebrews shifts to application of this doctrine in very practical matters: care for Christians, strangers, and prisoners, sex and marriage, money and contentment. If we have Christ, we have all we need and can obey Him.
Our holy God is a consuming fire who will shake away temporal things to grant us an eternal kingdom. Therefore, we must heed His warning and worship Him.
We are welcomed into a covenant of grace and joy, in which God’s wrath against disobedience and sin has been absolved by the blood of Christ. Jesus’ blood is a better word.
Jesus fulfills the OT threefold office of prophet, priest, and king. He then empowers his followers to fulfill the same roles as his ambassadors in the world.
Jesus' resurrection gives us unshakable joy, a mission far greater than ourselves, a community of belonging, and the victory over our great enemy, death. Is He sufficient for you, or are you pursuing sufficiency in something else?
Jesus endures unimaginable suffering to do the job - the job of offering up his body as a bloody sacrifice for our sins, that we would be forgiven and freed from sin.
Jesus is a different kind of king - he fulfills prophesies of old about the coming Savior, yet he rides humbly on a donkey. This is symbolic of the very task he came to accomplish - to rescue his subjects from sin by laying down his life for them.
God's people assemble to hear the Word of God, and they are deeply convicted. While their sorrow is understandable, the joy of the Lord demands that we rejoice in the great covenant we have with Him through Jesus Christ, the living Word. This covenant drives us towards our future as a church.
Mary (and Joseph) are faithful parents - they obey God and His Law in raising up Jesus. Their faithfulness represents the goodness of the family, and of the family of God.
Bathsheba was taken advantage of by David, and experienced grief and sorrow and loss as a result. Yet, she became the queen mother of Solomon and one of the women in the Savior's line, the Savior that everyone needs, most especially including King David himself.
The loyalty and steadfastness of Ruth point to the goodness of our sovereign God, who loves us in spite of the painful circumstances we all face in life.
Tamar’s inclusion into Jesus’ genealogy and her messy life demonstrate that the good news of the Gospel is for misfits and sinners, just like us.
Tithing is a Biblical theme of generosity from the very beginning, and it applies to Christians today.
The Samaritan's generosity (with time, treasure, talent) was evidence of his obedience to and love for God. Our generosity demonstrates the same thing.
Our worship of God springs from a deep understanding of who He is, who we are, and all that He has given us. The only proper response is profound, lifelong gratitude.
The last 10 years have been a wild ride! God has blessed this church in so many ways, and especially through the generosity of His people.
The last 10 years have been a wild ride! God has blessed this church in so many ways, and especially through the generosity of His people.
Jesus was high invitation, high challenge in his interaction with the woman at the well, and it had a transforming effect on her. Once she believed in Jesus, she shared him with the very people who (rightfully) judged her as sinful.
Jesus was high invitation, high challenge in his interaction with the woman at the well, and it had a transforming effect on her. Once she believed in Jesus, she shared him with the very people who (rightfully) judged her as sinful.
Paul was there in a moment of crisis, had compassion, and shared Jesus with the jailer.
Paul was there in a moment of crisis, had compassion, and shared Jesus with the jailer.
True repentance and faith brings true cost and true joy, for both the convert and for the evangelist.
True repentance and faith brings true cost and true joy, for both the convert and for the evangelist.
Paul understood the culture, connected it to the Gospel, and spoke boldly. We should, too.
God disciplines us because He loves us. Through discipline, we are given the strength to endure to the end and to grow in the "peaceful fruit of righteousness."
God disciplines us because He loves us. Through discipline, we are given the strength to endure to the end and to grow in the "peaceful fruit of righteousness."
Faith means thanking God in triumphs and trusting God in tragedies, and in all circumstances looking to the "better resurrection" promised to those in Christ.
We are saved by grace, not by respectability or external markers of decency or balancing the ledger of good deeds over bad. Faith is the response to grace which is demonstrated staking our lives on God rather than on anything else, like Rahab.
Sometimes having faith means doing things which make very little practical or strategic sense, but are nonetheless exactly what God commands us to do, and what God is pleased to use for His glory.
Genuine faith in Christ is demonstrated through courageous obedience as we look towards the reward.
While Joseph was a "good" person who did everything right, he ended up suffering tremendously. Throughout his unfair suffering, he remained faithful to his God, trusting God's promises, and not compromising in his beliefs or character. In the end, he shows us that true faith is a faith that forgives, trusting that when evil happens around, to, and because of us, God means it for good.
Faith is most difficult and most powerful when we cling to God’s only Son through tests and trials.
Christian living involves dissonance and desire. Dissonance with this world because it isn’t our true home. Desire for the next world because we’ll be truly at home in God’s city.
As we continue in the “Hall of Faith” we come to Abraham and Sarah. What we see is that in order to obey, depend on, or receive the promises of God, we need to have faith. When we embody that kind of faith we see in these passages, we become heirs to the promise that God gave Abraham.
Faith - taking God at His Word about Jesus - will be rewarded in many different ways in this life, but ultimately it will be rewarded by being taken home to be with God forever.
Abel pleased God with his faithful sacrifice. None of his words are recorded in Scripture, yet his life of faith still speaks, even to us today, forever pointing to Jesus.
The crucial thing about faith is its object, not its quality or amount. Christian faith begins with the God who created everything and the Word through whom all creation came into being, the Word made flesh who saved us.
There are terrible consequences of leaving the faith. Therefore may we be found among those who endure to the end.
Jesus’ sacrifice demands that we draw near (to God), hold fast (to right doctrine), and stir up one another (to love and good works).
Jesus obeyed rather than sacrificed. And in so doing he sacrificed himself for us, fitting us for heaven.
The literal bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ means that all of life is meaningful and we who trust in Him should rejoice.
Jesus, the suffering servant who endures the cross, is the hope of all people and the companion of those who suffer.
Jesus leaves us with the best inheritance we could have when he died for us - the gift of forgiveness of sins and the promise that he will return. Do we eagerly await him?
As we continue in our series through the book of Hebrews, the preacher will take a look back at one of the most important fixtures in the Old Testament, the tabernacle. What the preacher will show us is how the tabernacle points to Jesus, why it is so amazing that Jesus is our tabernacle, and why that means we have been eternally redeemed.
Jesus has completed the work of salvation we need to be forgiven and provided an unbreakable relationship with the Father. This is the greatest gift we could ever receive and the source of our unquenchable joy.
Oppressive kingdoms will come to an end, God will judge evildoers and we His people will reign with the Ancient of Days and the Son of Man forever and ever.
Humble courage can get us into trouble, but faithfulness to God is our highest calling.
This Sunday, Rev. Dr. Dean Weaver preaches for NAPC in our series "Brave by Faith". His sermon "From Generation to Generation" is focusing on Daniel 4 in which King Nebuchadnezzar has his second dream that Daniel has to interpret. We find that the king comes to terms with the Holy King that is over all of the earth, and praises our Great God - instead of himself.
Today’s idols are understated compared to golden statues, but this only makes it easier to worship them. Christians are to faithfully obey our God’s commands, trusting he is for us even in the hottest of life’s fires.
Daniel and his friends were able to maintain faithfulness to God in a very challenging environment by holding onto the sovereignty of God.
Life is uncertain and brings many trials and challenges, but we can rely on the holy, just, merciful, and awesome God of the universe. He has proven His care for His people with what He has done in the past and His promises for the future, which should cause us to rejoice in all circumstances and to trust His plan.
Where do we ultimately place our trust? Jesus teaches that the degree of our generosity gives evidence of the disposition of our hearts—whether we have an immediate and worldly mindset or an eternal kingdom attitude.
Having been given this gift of relationship with the Father through the Son by the power of the Spirit, we are commanded to GO OUT into the world with the Gospel and to give generously to fund the mission of NAPC.
Jesus, the gentle and lowly Savior, uses humble people to do extraordinarily courageous things in and through the local church as we look UP.
In an amazing encounter between God and Moses, God describes Himself for the first time in Scripture. What God reveals is that He is an awesome God who is worthy of all worship and Moses shows us how we ought to respond to Him.
Christmas Eve service 2021 was held on Friday, December 24 at the McCoy Center. Full sermon audio can be found here.
Suffering often leads to doubting God’s love for us. We go to Jesus (prayer, Word, the body) for help, and we practice long-term faithfulness, trusting that we belong to Him and His kingdom.
John is a humble servant by rejoicing in his diminishing role and pointing to Jesus. This is our life’s mission.
Jesus’ incarnation was aided by abetted his adoptive dad Joseph, a relatively obscure man in the line of David who trusted God and obeyed Him in a critical time. We are commanded to do the same.
In Mary we see extraordinary faith in the most ordinary of persons. God is the grace-giving actor in this passage, but Mary’s response of childlike faith should be a model for us.
The Christian life is foundationally what God has done for us in spite of what we deserve. Are we doing the good works he has prepared in advance for us to do? If not, should we claim that we are Christians?
The Proverbs 31 woman/wife is actually the archetype of the wise person who fears the Lord. May we strive to embody these virtues and have no fear of the future
Thirty wise sayings of Proverbs 22-24 give us practical and wise challenges for trusting in and fearing God.
The path of righteousness involves anger without sin, practicing hospitality, and loving the poor. But each step on that path we owe to our sovereign God who loves us.
The ways we work, accrue wealth and use our words reveal righteousness or wickedness, wisdom or foolishness. Yet no matter how well we apply these themes to our lives, we all need the love of Jesus which covers our offenses.
Wisdom is built into the fabric of the created order. We have to be able to tell it from Folly, and then pursue it doggedly for the blessings it provides.
Our children are being discipled. The question is who will disciple them more effectively - godly parents in partnership with the church, or the powerful forces of social media, peers and the culture of nihilistic hedonism?
Jesus’ priesthood is all we need for salvation and he is forever on our side, interceding for us.
Melchizedek is a priest-king who resembles the priest-king Jesus, and we are called to resemble Jesus to the world.
God never lies, and he has promised to save us. The hope of this promise is the anchor we need to keep going in Christ until we stand before Him.
The stern warning that we cannot taste of the heavenly gift of salvation, leave it, and then return convicts unbelievers to trust in Christ, and keeps believers on the path of obedience and productivity for the Lord.
As we continue in our study of the book of Hebrews, the preacher pauses and challenges his listeners to grow up. Far too many Christians are like adult infants, still living on milk. The preacher pushes us to grow up, using biting sarcasm and deep encouragement, to the solid food of God’s Word, which takes real effort.
Unity within the body of Christ is an ongoing work as we individually and communally conform to God’s Word.
Jesus is the human high priest we need who gives us right standing with the Father, who empowers us to draw near to the Father for mercy, grace and help.
God promises true rest to his people. In ancient times and still today, we enter it only by faith. True believers will enter his rest as his Word trains us and exposes the condition of our hearts.
As we continue in our series on Hebrews, we come to the second warning passage. Here we are warned using the example of the Israelites after they were freed from slavery in Egypt. We are encouraged to not fall into the same mistakes they made with three ways to guard ourselves from unbelief, the root of the Israelites’ issues.
Moses was respected as God’s faithful servant, but Jesus is to be worshiped as God’s faithful Son. Christians are to consider Jesus and hold fast to our hope.
Jesus is our Savior and Lord, which we rightly emphasize. But here we see that he is our elder brother who is not ashamed of us and who compassionately helps us in the difficulties we face in life.
Though we do not yet see all things under the dominion of Jesus, he has been crowned with glory and will rule the world to come because of his humiliation through death.
This week we take the superiority of Jesus and hear what we are practically supposed to do with that. Then we will receive a stark warning to not neglect Jesus, but to listen, trust, and obey Him in everything we do.
Angels are impressive, but Jesus is much superior. Angels minister to and serve God’s people, but Jesus is to be worshiped by God’s people.
If we are going to be in it for the long haul, we will have to stand with one another in love.
What will happen after Jesus returns? We have reached the final week of our sermon series "It Is the End of the World As We Know It" today, in our final lesson, we learn that we will have resurrection bodies and live on with our God forever in this world that has been healed and cured of brokenness and sin. Every tear will be wiped away. We will be the bride and we will feast with the bridegroom, and we go ever deeper in loving fellowship with our God. It will not be boring!
Jesus will judge believers based on how they invested their lives and this judgment will have implications for our joy or our regret when we are judged. It will not dampen the joy of eternal life with God and His saints.
Jesus is a warring judge, and He will vanquish all sin and evil, and then judge all humans, separating those who belong to Him and those who do not. Both heaven and hell are real and eternal.
This week we learn that There are several different views on what goes down in the time right before the return of Jesus. Regardless of what we believe, the point is to invest our lives in living faithfully and fearlessly for Jesus.
we are going directly to be with God in Heaven where we will await the new heavens and new earth. We have nothing to fear about our own death.
God has prepared a heavenly city where we will dwell with him. Knowing where we are going shapes our lives here and now to be faithful and obedient.
The Seriously Playful Savior helps us understand that Jesus is both serious and playful. His resurrection and his example should lead to the same qualities in us as we follow Him.