URC Learning: Rev. Adam Kaloostian

What is the “kingdom of heaven”? What characterizes its citizens in the age before it comes in its fullness? How do its citizens enlist other ones?

Matthew 5:1-16

Matthew uses the sacred Old Testament genealogical list to introduce the monumental event of Jesus, the Great and Universal King, being born into the world. [please note: I meant to say “squelch our …

This closing bookend of Book 1 of the Psalms connects clearly to Psalms 1 and 2. We must align ourselves with Jesus in His weakness, because the Lord restores, sustains, and blesses both Jesus and al…

The Canaanites were wrong about who was behind the extraordinary autumn storms coming off the Mediterranean Sea. The God of Israel commands the waters under Him and they work fierce destruction, sho…

This song warns us against harboring the kind of human pride and its poisonous fruit that result in the Lord’s sometimes delayed, but always severe, judgement. The song also encourages us when we fa…

Psalm 28

It’s the times when we face our most severe trials that we are tempted to lose confidence in the Lord’s ability or willingness to establish us in a confident, peaceful place. In those times…

Because Jesus sang this song before us and for us, God Himself by His Spirit puts this song in our hearts and on our lips. We sing it and the Lord answers us by giving us joy and peace in the midst …

Psalms 1 and 2 are together the introduction to the Psalter. Right away we get music that takes us from creation to redemption, from Adam to Christ, from our struggle under the common curse to the p…

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The persecution against the early church again intensifies as Stephen, one of the recently appointed deacons, becomes the cen…

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Far from an abstract, irrelevant philosophical concept, the Bible’s teaching about the extent of God’s contro…

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The apostles are arrested again, and this time they come close to receiving the death penalty. But Christ st…

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Our magnificent God and Father created everything out of nothing as an arena to display His glorious majesty. Indeed, the King establis…

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The Lord strikes Ananias and Sapphira dead in a terrifying, immediate act of church discipline carried out by the Lo…

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There’s no good reason for the political-religious temple establishment to oppose the gracious power of Christ at wor…

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As the author to the Hebrews explains, a priest who is holy and eternal is required to truly fulfill his office. If Jesus…

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We see ourselves as the miserable, pathetic crippled beggar and as the rebellious, covenant-breaking, apostate generation of Isra…

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The last two aspects of Luke’s prescriptive portrait of the early church regard the regular celebration of the Lord’s Supper and par…

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The Scripture is clear about this magnificent and in some senses incomprehensible doctrine. To reject the teaching of the Tri…

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Please note: The last five minutes of the sermon were mistakenly deleted from this sermon.

Challenges against the co…

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Luke breaks up his reporting of the dramatic, redemptive-historical events of the early part of Acts with this the first i…