The Heidelberg Catechism - The Foundations Of Our Faith

  1 Corinthians 15:1-23 In The Age of Anxiety Why Believe Jesus is the Saviour Slide 1 1 Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand,2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, Tim Keller writes: "Even before the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 and its aftermath, the Western world had been experiencing a growing crisis of hope. For at least two centuries Western cultures had been animated by a powerful hope that history was progressive, that the human race was moving inevitably toward creating a world of greater and greater safety, prosperity, and freedom. In short, there was a strong belief that overall every generation of hu...

John 20: The Empty Tomb 1 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene *came early to the tomb, while it *was still dark, and *saw the stone already taken away from the tomb.2 So she *ran and *came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and *said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him."3 So Peter and the other disciple went forth, and they were going to the tomb.4 The two were running together; and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first;5 and stooping and looking in, he *saw the linen wrappings lying there; but he did not go in.6 And so Simon Peter also *came, following him, and entered the tomb; and he *saw the linen wrappings lying there,7 and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself.8 So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed.9 Fo...

Slide 1 . On the third day he arose from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father almighty; from there he will come to judge the living and the dead. LORD'S DAY 19 52. Q. What comfort is it to you that Christ will come to judge the living and the dead? A. In all my sorrow and persecution I lift up my head and eagerly await as judge from heaven the very same person who before has submitted himself to the judgment of God for my sake, and has removed all the curse from me. He will cast all his and my enemies into everlasting condemnation, but he will take me and all his chosen ones to himself into heavenly joy and glory. Hell disappeared. And no one noticed. Church historian Martin Marty. It seems to be out of step with our times. it is difficult to reconcile hell and the judgment with the love of God. the punishment of hell does not seem to fit the crime.  As Ryle said "I call on all who profess to believe the Bible, to be on their guard. S...

  THE GLORIOUS MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT John 14:16-31 In 1845, 138 finely dressed sailors on two ships left England under explorer Sir John Franklin (Franklin river and dam named after him in Tasmania). Arctic Northwest passage. Failure. The ships were unprepared. 12 days of coal for a 2 year expedition. Set for entertainment not exploration. 1200 books, and fine china and silverware. Their frozen bodies, fine uniforms. Unprepared. To the disciples the Lord Jesus said "I will not leave you as orphans." –forsaken, forlorn and unprepared. The Holy Spirit has been described as the neglected member of the Godhead, because while many Christians know about God as their loving heavenly Father and the Lord Jesus as their risen Saviour, they do not know much about the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. Many Christians are like the twelve men at Ephesus who said, "We have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit" (Acts 19:2). This theme is sadly neglected; in the Ne...