A final judgment is coming — one day, one Judge, all people. The biblical description of that event and its two outcomes is not speculative or symbolic; it is the most concrete and consequential fact about the future that the New Testament presents. Some people dismiss…
Love for God is not a feeling — it is a pattern of obedience. What looks like love but does not produce obedience is not love. What produces obedience, even in the absence of feeling, is love. The normal condition of the human heart is to…
Sin did not originate with God. God created beings with the power to choose; some chose to disobey. The origin of sin is the misuse of freedom, not a failure in the design that produced the freedom. The first sins were angelic; the first human sin…
Sin did not begin in the field—it began at the altar. Cain’s fall was a progression: unbelief in worship, pride under correction, and hatred of righteousness. God warned him that sin was crouching at the door, ready to rule him, but Cain refused to master it. The result was not just a broken relationship with his brother, but bloodshed and separation from the presence of the Lord. This sermon exposes the “way of Cain” and calls every listener to examine worship, respond rightly to Scripture’s correction, and submit to God before sin grows into death.
“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord” (I Cor. 15:58). The “therefore” is the key: Paul’s exhortation to steadfastness is grounded in the resurrection. Because the resurrection is real, the labor of the Lord is not in vain…
The landmarks that mark the boundaries of God’s revealed will cannot be moved without consequence — ancient Israel learned this by law, and the church has learned it by history. Every generation inherits landmarks it did not set and cannot reset. The temptation is always to…
True liberty is not the freedom to do anything — it is the freedom to do what is right within the boundaries that God has set. Every servant of God, from Christ himself down to the local preacher, operates within those limits. The word “liberty” is…
“It is well to tell the sick of a physician; the poor of riches; the dying of life; the lost of a Savior; and the impenitent of hell.” The opening line is exactly right. This is not a subject a preacher enjoys. But silence on hell…
When Jesus rolled up the scroll at Nazareth, He gave us a picture of His whole work: He closed the book on Old Testament prophecy by fulfilling it, completed God’s revelation as the final Word, and will one day close the book on human history and…
A sermon by Ed Rangel from Jude 1–25, exploring Scripture and its application to Christian life and faith.