Unlike anything experienced in life on earth, the offer of salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone is made to everyone without regard to their past, present, status, ethnicity, etc. Yet what does it mean to savingly come to Jesus Christ?

Outline:

• The Question: Who Can Be Saved?

• The Answer: One Death is Sufficient for All

• Decision Time: Choose Life

From start to finish, the Bible reveals the outworking of God’s redemptive plan, always pointing us toward Jesus. In fulfillment of prophesy and according to God’s perfect design, Jesus made a startling entry into Jerusalem at Passover, provoking the events that led to our salvation.

Outline:

• The Right Time

• The People’s King

• God’s King

• The King Must Die

As Jesus prepared to enter Jerusalem and make the once-for-all sacrifice for the sins of all who will believe, he was honoredwith a dinner hosted by faithful disciples. The dinner serves as a prelude to Passion Week, also revealing the hearts of people in the presence of Jesus, the Christ and Son of God.

Outline:

• True Disciples

• The Disenchanted

• The Entertained

• The Hateful

Everyone makes a decision about Jesus. Either they believe,submit to Christ as Lord, and humble themselves to God’s Word, or they remain condemned in unbelief. Too often, a third way is embraced, religious unbelief, which is only a masked rejection of the gift God graciously sent in Christ. All threeresponses appear in the text that catalogues the responses to Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead.

Outline:

• Belief

• Rejection

• Religion

Sovereign over all creation, the Lord our God reigns and rules, his providence guiding all things. Does he care about you—individually? Jesus, the image of the invisible God, reveals not only the power of God over life and death but his steadfast love and willingness to enter our pains as we live for him!

Outline:

• Answering the Call

• Our Compassionate Savior

• Believing Is Seeing

Suffering may expose the weakness of our faith and thelimitations we place on God, but weak faith is still faith. Through his revelation to Martha, Jesus draws us back to truth in the good confession of faith.

Outline:

• Faith in Challenging Times

• The Comforting Truth

• The Right Answer

With the great privilege of worshiping the Lord Jesus byopening with baptism at the church today, we took this opportunity to consider baptism through a biblical and historical lens.

Outline:

• The Biblical Warrant for Baptism

• Faith Precedes Baptism

• The Spiritual Significance of Baptism

Circumstances of life or comparisons with others can make us question whether we are in the place God wants us. We can only know by trusting in the word of Christ and following him. He has given us work to do and the time to do it. While we live for Christ in this life, we should do so without fear and look eagerly toward a glorious eternity with him.

Outline:

• A Time to Go

• A Time to Work

• A Time to Sleep