The Reality of False Conversion

Preparing a Chosen Vessel

The sermon examines how God prepared the world's greatest missionary for useful ministry. Saul's preparation illustrates how God prepares His chosen vessels for divine service through four interconnected means: immediate employment, nurturing in obscurity, fortification through adversity, and preservation within community.

Sovereign Saving Grace

This sermon examines God's sovereign saving grace in Saul's conversion. While not every Christian can say they have had quite so dramatic a "Damascus road experience," yet the grace that saved Saul is the same that saves any sinner.

How True Conversion Came to a Lost Outsider

This text gives us an anatomy of true conversion in the story of the Ethiopian eunuch. Our study follows how it is God sovereignly prepares a soul for salvation and how He uses gospel proclamation to bring about conversion. The study concludes with a look at the product of a true conversion.

The Reality of False Conversion

This sermon examines the sobering reality that not all conversions are genuine. Luke illustrates this fact in the tragedy of Simon Magnus. Our study follows four scenes that unfold Simon's case and offer a biblical perspective on false conversion.

Living Out the Gospel

This Lord's Day continues our series of messages from the book of Colossians with a message titled "Living Out the Gospel" (Colossians 3:18-4:1).