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The Roman Road to Salvation, Part 2 (Rom. 8:28-30)

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on 2/28/21) In today’s message, we conclude a sermon on the “Roman Road to Salvation” preached by Elder Chris McCool a few months ago. We see from Scripture that, although the religious world teaches the “Roman Road” as some process for men to get themselves saved, the true “Roman…

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Zeal, Part 2 (Rom. 10)

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 8/14/22) Today we continue our look at Romans 10, where we have already seen that the zeal spoken of in verse 2 is a zeal “of God.” That is, the zeal is a zeal given by God to these Jews, thus proving to us that they are already born…

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Zeal, Part 1 (Rom. 10)

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 8/14/22) In Romans 10, Paul expresses a zeal for the salvation of certain of his kinsmen among the Jews. He tells us that they have a “zeal of God”, but that it was an uniformed zeal. You see, these were born-again children of God among the Jewish nation, but…

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The Kingdom of God, Part Thirty-Two: Justification By Faith and Works (Rom. 5:1, James 2:21, cont.)

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 6/12/22) In the last post, we began to look at the topic of “justification by faith,” which takes place in the courtroom of the heart and mind of the child of God. Today, we finish looking at that type of justification, and turn to “justification by works”. This last…

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The Kingdom of God, Part Thirty-One: Justification By Faith and Works (Rom. 5:1, James 2:21)

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 6/12/22) We have looked at the biblical concept of “justification by grace alone,” and seen that our eternal justification occurs without regard to the exercise of our faith or works. However, the Bible clearly teaches both justification by faith without works, and justification by works. Do these scriptures conflict?…

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The Kingdom of God, Part Thirty: Justification By Grace (Rom. 5:12-19, cont.)

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 5/29/22) In today’s message, which is the conclusion to a message begun yesterday, we see more about the justification that we have through the blood of Jesus Christ. Ultimately, we see that – in the courtroom of eternal heaven – we are ONLY justified by the sacrifice of Christ!…