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May 4, 2025 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 9:8-34
In this sermon we continue looking at the miracle of Christ healing the man born blind. In particular, we focus on what happens after the healing itself and what we can learn from this wonderful sign. We work through four main points: 1) The Unique Power of Christ to Heal; 2) The Sanctification of the Sabbath; 3) The Fear of Man; and 4) The Power of Testimony
April 27, 2025 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 9:1-12
In this sermon we work through four main points: 1) The Caring Initiative of the Savior, 2) The Glorious Purpose of Suffering, 3) The Messianic Healing of a Blind Man, and 4) The Necessity of Responding to Christ in Obedience.
April 20, 2025 - James Lynch
Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 15:20
In this sermon we examine the doctrine that Christ is our Firstfruits. Therefore His resurrection guarantees our resurrection.
April 06, 2025 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 8:48-59
In this sermon we finish our study of Christ's conversation with the Jews in John 8. We give special attention to the insults of Christ's enemies, the promise of Christ's Word, and the relationship of Christ and Abraham.
March 30, 2025 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 8:37-47
In this sermon we look at three distinguishing marks of a child of God: 1) Loving Christ; 2) Receiving, Loving, and Understanding God's Word; and 3) Doing the Works of God.
March 23, 2025 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 8:31-36
In this sermon we look at Jesus's declaration that anyone who commits sin is a slave of sin, but that the truth will make you free. We first focus on what slavery to sin is like, and then look at what freedom in Christ is like.
March 16, 2025 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 8:19-30
In this sermon we look at the only two ways to die: in your sins or in the Lord.
March 09, 2025 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 8:12-18
In this sermon we look at how Jesus's witness and judgment are true, and how Christ is, in fact, the truth Himself.
March 02, 2025 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 8:12
In this sermon we focus on two points: 1) The world is dark; and 2) Christ is the light of the world.
February 23, 2025 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 8:1-11
In this sermon we look at the incident of the woman who was caught in adultery being brought before Jesus. Specifically, we highlight the motives of the scribes and the Pharisees, Jesus's emphasis on biblical authority and the proper administration of God's law, and what the appropriate response is when we are convicted of sin.
February 16, 2025 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 7:40-53
In this sermon we conclude our time of hearing from Christ at the Feast of Tabernacles. We look first at the different responses people have to Jesus's offer of the Holy Spirit, and how Christ and His Word bring division. Then we focus specifically on the importance of humble submission to the Word of God.
February 09, 2025 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 7:37-39
In this sermon we listen to Christ's sermon on the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles. Specifically, we focus on the significance of the eighth day, Christ's free offer of the Holy Spirit to all who thirst, and how our experience of the Spirit in the New Covenant is greater than our brothers experienced in the Old Covenant.
February 02, 2025 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 7:25-36
In this sermon we discuss three main points: 1) The sovereignty of Christ over the lives of both His children and His enemies; 2) That Christ came from God and returns back to God; and 3) That the mercy of God to the wicked does not endure forever.
January 26, 2025 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 7:10-24
In this sermon we observe Christ revealing Himself at the Feast of Tabernacles through His powerful preaching. Specifically we focus on the importance of a transformed heart and a desire to do God's will in order to rightly understand God's Word and make righteous judgments.
January 19, 2025 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 7:1-13
In this sermon we look at the lessons we can learn from: 1) Christ's prudence and obedience as He contemplates His death; 2) Christ having an unbelieving family; and 3) Why the world hated Christ.
January 12, 2025 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 6:60-71
In this sermon we look at the walking away of the unbelieving, unregenerate disciples in contrast to the faith of Peter and the apostles.
January 05, 2025 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 6:52-59
In this sermon we look at what it means to eat Christ's flesh and drink His blood. We give special attention to why this does not refer to partaking of the Lord's Supper.
December 29, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 6:35-51
In this sermon we look at how Christ is a humble and sovereign Savior who saves, preserves, and raises all of the elect. We give special attention to how Jesus saves not only our souls but our bodies as well.
December 22, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 6:27-40
In this sermon we look at Christ's response to the Capernaum crowd asking for a sign, that they might believe in Him. Christ gives an answer that is gentle, God-exalting, evangelistic, and clear. We focus particularly on the twin truths that 1) God unconditionally elects a certain set of people to salvation; and 2) Salvation through faith in Christ is offered freely to all - elect and non-elect alike.
December 15, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 6:27-29
In this sermon we examine Jesus's statement to the crowd at Capernaum that the work of God is to believe on Him whom He has sent.
December 08, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: Ezekiel 36:22-32
In this sermon we look at what mode of baptism we should use (pouring, sprinkling, or immersion). First we look at the meaning of the word "baptize" in the Bible, and secondly we look at biblical examples of baptism and the theology put forth by Scripture of baptism by pouring or sprinkling.
December 1, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 6:15-21
In this sermon we look at four aspects of Jesus' interaction with the crowd that followed Him across the Sea of Galilee and into Capernaum. Jesus rebukes them for seeking Him for the wrong reasons, He prohibits them from laboring for the food that perishes, He instructs them to labor for the food that endures to everlasting life, and He promises them that since God has set His seal on Him, all who seek that everlasting bread from their heart will find it in Him.
November 24, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 6:15-21
In this sermon we look at Jesus's humility, His obedience to the will of the Father and communion with Him through private prayer, and His supernatural power which comforts His disciples.
November 10, 2024 - Thomas Booher
Bible Text: Luke 11:1-13
Theme: Persisting in righteous prayer leads to God granting our prayers.Â
The illustration of persisting with a friend in a time of need. (5-8)
The command to persist with God in our times of need. (9-13)
November 03, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 6:1-14
In this sermon we look at the miracle of Christ feeding the 5,000 and what we can learn from this wonder about Him being our compassionate and almighty Creator, Savior, and Provider.
October 27, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 5:39-47
In this sermon we look at the last segment of Jesus' defense of His Messiahship to the Jews. Specifically, we focus on the four reasons why Christ says they do not come to Him in faith.
October 20, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 5:30-40
In this sermon we look at the witnesses Jesus calls to prove His legitimacy as the Son of God. First Jesus calls God the Father, and then He shows that God the Father sent John the Baptist
October 13, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 5:24-29
In this sermon we look first at how the one who believes in Christ experiences everlasting spiritual life here and now; and secondly, we discuss the resurrection of the body that is still to come. We give particular focus on how we will be judged after the resurrection of the body.
October 06, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 5:8-23
In this sermon we pick back up our series in John at the healing of the lame man at Bethesda. We discuss the authority of Christ, the divinity of Christ, the unity of Christ with the Father, the exclusivity of Christ as our Lord and Savior, and how Christ teaches us that the Sabbath is not only fulfilled through worship and rest, but also through works of mercy and redemption.
September 29, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: 2 Corinthians 4:16-18; Job 1:20-21
In light of the devastation brought by Hurricane Helene, we reflect on what God's Word tells us about suffering.
September 22, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 5:1-15
In this sermon we examine Christ's healing of the invalid at Bethesda. We look at Christ as the God who sees, seeks out, and has compassion on us - picking His children out of the vast multitude. And we focus on Christ's encouragement and warning on each of His children's lives: "See you are well. Sin no more that nothing worse may happen to you.
September 15, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 4:43-54
In this sermon we look at what it means for Christ to have no honor in his own hometown, and the faith that the royal official nevertheless had in the Word of God unadorned with signs and wonders.
September 1, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 4:1-42
In this sermon we look at the the superiority of the spiritual water and the Father's food and how we should seek these satisfying and filling things above all earthly concerns.
August 25, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 4:1-42
In this sermon we look at how the story of the Samaritan woman at the well is a picture of the gospel and an echo of other significant well-meetings in biblical history. Then we draw out three theological points from this meeting: 1) Jesus is the greater Israel (Greater than our father Jacob); 2) Jesus brings a greater salvation; 3) Jesus empowers us and requires us to render greater worship to Him.
August 18, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 4:1-42
In this sermon we look at how Jesus is an intentional, humble, and sovereign Savior.
August 11, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: Psalm 128
In this sermon we walk through what the life of the blessed man who fears God and walks in His ways generally looks like.
August 4, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 3:31-36
In this sermon we look at the superiority of Christ, God's unmeasured giving of the Spirit to Christ, and the nature of true faith in Christ and it's relationship to obedience.
July 28, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 3:22-30
In this sermon we use baptism as our jumping off point to discuss the new beginning Christ brings to us, the purification Christ's blood provides, our marriage to Christ, and how we must decrease and Christ must increase.
July 21, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 3:17-21
In this sermon we look at how Jesus is the Savior of the world and will save every one of His sheep. In the end only those who love darkness rather than light will be condemned.
July 14, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 3:16
In this sermon I unpack how God loved the world by sending His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins and bring us everlasting life.
July 7, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 3:9-15
In this sermon we continue walking through Christ's conversation with Nicodemus. Jesus rebukes the teacher of Israel for not understanding the biblical doctrine of the new birth and then explains more fully His identity as the lifted up and ascended Savior who authoritatively reveals God and His plan of salvation to His people.
June 30, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 3:1-8
In this sermon I walk through Jesus's exhortation to Nicodemus that he (and all people) must be born again.
June 23, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: Pslam 127; Isaiah 54
In this sermon I describe the circumstance in which we find ourselves in light of the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision (which overturned Roe v. Wade) and some ways we ought to live and act in light of God's Word and the times.
June 16, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 2:23-25
In this sermon I delve into the difficult matter of people believing in Christ with their heads but not their hearts. Without Christ entrusting Himself to someone, no mere profession of Christ will save that person. While right doctrine is imperative, a changed heart that trusts in and loves Christ is necessary for salvation.
June 09, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 2:12-22
In this sermon I preach on Christ's cleansing of the Temple at the beginning of His public ministry.
May 26, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 2:1-11
In this sermon I unpack Christ's first sign/miracle: turning water into wine at the wedding in Cana. We look especially at how this sign manifests Christ's glory as the obedient Son of God, the ultimate purifier from sin, and the perfect provider and lavish gift giver.
May 19, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: John 2:49-51
In this sermon I unpack Christ's first sign/miracle: turning water into wine at the wedding in Cana. We look especially at how this sign manifests Christ's glory as the obedient Son of God, the ultimate purifier from sin, and the perfect provider and lavish gift giver.
May 12, 2024 - James Lynch
Bible Text: Luke 18:15-17
In this sermon I expound in part our reasoning for baptizing the infant children of believers. 1) We are commanded to let the little children come to Jesus. 2) Babies and little children have always been included in the people of God. 3) Entire households were baptized in the New Testament.