Redeemer Church Of Waterford

When the creed rightly declares that our Lord was "crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, suffered, and was buried," we must be careful to understand that the suffering of our Savior is not limited to what he endured for us on the cross.

What is the unity of the Spirit and what are the dispositions necessary to maintain it?

Though Mary the virgin was the willing human instrument, the conception of the eternal, only-begotten Son in her womb so that He might be made flesh is due only and entirely to the work of the Trinity.

In the Nicene Creed, the phrase "Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven" turns our attention from the person of Christ in relation to His Father as the eternal Son of God, to the work of Christ in relation to us as the Lord Jesus Christ - the eternal Son made flesh. This work of Christ for us takes place in two states of His incarnation in human flesh: His Humiliation and His Exaltation.What does it mean that this work is "for us"?

The most important thing about heaven is that the Lord Jesus Christ is there at the right hand of His Father. This truth only emphasizes the great grace displayed by the Son of God who willing left the glory of heaven to come to earth to save His people.

When Peter confesses, "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God," he is not making a definitive statement about the deity of Jesus. When Peter calls Jesus "Christ," he is affirming that Jesus, as a descendent of David, is the final fulfillment of the promise of a king to sit on David's throne. When Peter calls him "Son of God," he does not mean by that title what we mean by that title.So what does Peter mean when he says to Jesus, "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God"? And why is it fair to say that Peter is saying more than even he himself understands he is saying about the person of Jesus Christ?

The name 'Jesus' derives from the Aramaic 'Joshua' which means 'the LORD who saves.' Jesus was a common first century Jewish name. Because the people were anticipating a savior who would deliver them from their enemies, parents of infant sons would name them 'Jesus' in the hopes that their baby boy might be that savior.How are we to understand the eternal Son of God - who always existed - coming into existence in human flesh as a human being, to be the Savior of the world?

To fully understand what the Apostles meant when they called Jesus "Lord," it is necessary to understand the meaning of the unutterable Name of the LORD as God was called in the Old Testament.

What does it mean when the Nicene Creed affirms that our one Lord Jesus Christ was "begotten of His Father"? Was there a time when the Second Person of the Holy Trinity did not exist?Beyond that, what are the implications FOR US that the Son of God was begotten of His Father?

When the cherubim and the twenty-four elders sing, "Thou, Lord, hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created," we are confronted with the absolute sovereignty of God over every created thing and the resulting tension between the will of the creature and the will of the Creator.

The first article of the Nicene Creed affirms "one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible."This one God is seated on an invisible throne from which He overrules all other powers which have been ordained by Him, both visible and invisible.What is to be the response of all created things to this Sovereign Ruler?

The 148th Psalm is a call for all creation to praise the Lord.Verses 1 - 6 call for the heavens to praise the Lord, from the highest to the lowest created things.Verses 7 - 14 call for the earth to praise the Lord, from the lowest to the highest created things.

How does Jesus being the Creator of things visible and invisible speak to our own cultural moment which places a higher value on the visible (material) world than it does the invisible (spiritual) world?

In the first century, when the Apostle Paul wrote to the Colossians, there is confusion about who Jesus is. In the fourth century, when the Nicene Creed was written, there is confusion about who Jesus is. In the twenty-first century there is confusion about who Jesus is.Before we can understand God as "maker of all things visible and invisible," we must understand the nature and person of His Son by whom He made all things.

Albert Mohler: "...everything that exists traces its existence and its reality to the sovereign act of God the Father Almighty—maker of heaven and earth." What we believe about the origins of life is fundamental to everything else we believe, and more importantly, fundamental to how we live either under the Lordship of Jesus Christ or in rebellion to His creation order.

In this continuation of our consideration of what the Nicene Creed means by "Maker of Heaven and Earth," Pastor Paul gives a fuller exposition of Hebrews 1:1-12 as we examine how the Son as the Word of the Father calls everything that is into being.

What does the Nicene Creed mean when it says, "We believe in one God, the Father Almighty"? How are we to understand God as "Father"? Preeminently, God is understood to be Father in His eternal relationship to the Son without regard to His relationship to those whom He has adopted as Sons.

In our day you can find people with problems, or foibles, or issues, or hang ups. You can find people who have made mistakes. You can find good people who occasionally do bad things, but rarely can you find a sinner.What we learn from our text is that only where the transcendent, holy God is revealed do men see themselves as sinful.

Who was this man whose resurrection from the dead we celebrate each Easter? He was a man in human flesh like any other man. But the description given of this man by his closest friend and companion as "the Word of life," but more than that as the one who was "from the beginning" indicates he was more than extraordinary.

The words of Isaiah 53 are the perspective of onlookers to the life of Jesus who mistakenly believed that the sorrows and griefs Jesus endured during his life and the ignoble death he died were evidence of the judgement of God upon him. But they soon realized that the wrath Jesus endured was not for his sins, but for theirs.