The Semper Reformata Podcast

Filled with God’s Fulness.Text Ephesians 3:18-19 …that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Read Col 1:9-19 – 2:1-10In this study, we will explore what Paul means when he writes …that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God, To properly understand what Paul means, we will need especially to look at two or three very common, but very important words, especially the words THAT and WITH!This sermon was preached at both Ballymacashon and Templepatrick reformed Church. This recording was made at TRC, and is reproduced here with their kind permission.Read the NOTES HERE.

Catechism Class: LD 49 Q124 Obeying the Will of GodText: Matthew 16:24-26The catechist is still teaching us how to pray, using the Lord’s Prayer as a model for our prayers, and reminding us that when we pray these petitions there is far more underlying truth than we sometimes think. We should mine that truth! So we come to the third petition in the prayer: “Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” Compare that with Proverbs 14:1 The psalmist has the correct attitude in Psalm 40:8  That’s what we pray for in this petition of the Lord’s Prayer, – Lord, teach us, not only to DO your will, but to take DELIGHT in doing it.READ THE NOTES

Catechism Class: LD48 Praying About the Kingdom of GodThe catechist is teaching us about the Lord’s Prayer. We MUST consider carefully every line of the Lord’s prayer, so that we can use it as a tool, a model prayer, to shape the petitions of our daily prayers, to teach us how we should pray.  Luke 11:1 The Heidelberg Catechism asks, "What is the second petition?" The answer is, "Your kingdom come. That is: So rule us by your Word and Spirit that more and more we submit to you. Preserve and increase your church. Destroy the works of the devil, every power that raises itself against you, and every conspiracy against your holy Word. Do all this until the fullness of your kingdom comes, wherein you shall be all in all.”To read the NOTES CLICK HERE

God's Boundless LoveHow wonderful is Christ’s love for us, vile sinners, that he would bring us from death to life? Let’s try to grasp its magnitude…This sermon was preached at Ballymacashon and Templepatrick Reformed Church It was recorded at TRC and and is reproduced here with their kind permission.Read the NOTES HERE

Catechism Class: Lord's Day 47, Really Knowing God.Jeremiah 9:23-24  We continue our examination of the Lord’s Prayer looking at the first petition – and it IS a petition – not a declaration. It is us asking ‘May your name be hallowed.’Read the NOTES HERE

Ready for War?Sometimes war is thrust upon us. War is horrific. More horrific than we civilians can know, and today we seem to be standing on a precipice, looking into a great chasm of conflict, perhaps even World War 3. Faced with the prospect of an escalation of violence, what are we do do? Let’s see, how God prepared David for war.Read the NOTES HERE.This sermon was preached at Ballymacashon and Templepatrick Reformed Church. It was recorded at Templepatrick and is used here with their kind permission.

Catechism Class: LD46, Q120-121 Our Father, who art in heaven.When Jesus taught his disciples to pray, He told them exactly how they are to approach him, what they are to say and how they are to address him. The Heidelberg catechist instructs us on what we should say when come to God in prayer…https://saltyscrivener.uk/2021/01/19/catechism-class-lords-day-46-q120-121/

Catechism Class: LD45 Q119 The Purpose and Structure of the Lord’s Prayer.Lord’s Day 45 - Q119 The catechist has introduced us to the Lord’s Prayer, which is the model prayer for all our prayers. So we move on now to look at the model prayer itself, and before we begin to examine the petitions in the prayer, let’s make a few important general observations about it.Read the NOTES HERE.

The Four HorsemenText: Revelation 6:1-8You must not think of Revelation as linear history, – history written in advance for us. It is unlikely that’s the case. Revelation is not a history book, it is apocalyptic literature, and it is a series of scenes, overlapping in time, moving in parallel through the church age, and out into eternity to come, each scene revealing to us something more of God’s eternal plan and purpose, and each one ending further ahead in history, until at very end of the book we have the final state, a new heaven and earth. In this lesson we shall watch as the first four of the seals are opened, a passage often referred to as ‘The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”…This sermon was recorded at Templepatrick Reformed Church and is reproduced here with their kind permission.Read the NOTES HERE