Sermons on Sunday Worship (Page 8)

Paul has spent the first 4 chapters of Romans setting up the fact that we are justified through our faith in Christ. In the start of chapter 5, he pivots to explain just what that means for believers. In this week’s message, Pastor Scott Gourley shares how, thanks to this justification, Jesus has become our hope.

No matter how many times we are reminded that we cannot earn our way into God’s good favor, we tend to find ourselves trying to do just that. In this week’s message, Pastor Scott Gourley shares what it means to have our righteousness credited to us through Christ.

If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit we have a tendency to boast in our own righteousness. We are either trying to promote our good deeds in the eyes of others or trying to prove we are more righteous than someone else by way of comparison. In the end, however, we have no righteousness of our in in which we can boast, as any righteousness we have comes from Christ. In this week’s message. Pastor Scott Gourley…

As we continue in Romans, we come to the meat of the Gospel, something Paul has been setting up in the opening of this letter. On this Easter Sunday, Pastor Scott Gourley shares what the Gospel truly means for us.

We have a real tendency to try and justify ourselves. The problem is, as Paul reminds us in Romans. we cannot do that. In this week’s message, Pastor Scott Gourley breaks down the idea of Total Depravity as contrasted to God’s Grace through Christ.

As we continue in Romans, Paul is right up front about the fact that God is righteous when He chooses to judge the unrighteous. In this week’s message, Pastor Scott Gourley shares what this means for Christians today in light of the Gospel.

There were those among the Jews who believed that having the law and circumcision gave them an advantage in the new kingdom. Paul argues against this towards the close of Romans 2.  In this week’s message, Pastor Scott Gourely shares how it is the Spirit that saves, not the Law.

Paul found himself writing to two different groups in his letter to the Romans. The first were the Jews, who had God’s Law. The second ere the Gentiles, who did not have it in its written form. In this week’s message, Pastor Scott Gourley explains that there is no advantage for either group; both need the saving work of Jesus.