Tag: Virgin Mary

  • A Tale of Two Conceptions

    A Tale of Two Conceptions

      Psalm 51:5; Luke 1:30-35 (texts); Heidelberg Catechism Lord’s Day 14 October 5, 2014 • Download this sermon (PDF) Introduction To most evangelicals, “Virgin Mary” or “Mary, Mother of God” are easily dismissed as Catholic ideas. But the title, “Mother of God,” is both early and a mistranslation. It was used of Mary as early as the…

  • “Behold Your Son! Behold Your Mother!”

    “Behold Your Son! Behold Your Mother!”

    All your loving and caring for and obedience to your mothers, fathers and other authorities would never be pleasing to God if you have no faith in the atoning work of Jesus for your sins. For as Hebrews 11:6 says, “without faith it is impossible to please him.”

  • Daily Lent Devotionals: March 15

    Daily Lent Devotionals: March 15

    So if Jesus had brothers (and sisters), where were they as he was being put to death? And why would Jesus commend his mother to his disciple John, and not to them?

  • Daily Lent Devotionals: March 14

    Daily Lent Devotionals: March 14

    Ever since lowly shepherds came to worship her newborn baby in Bethlehem, “Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.”

  • Daily Lent Devotionals: March 13

    Daily Lent Devotionals: March 13

    “Yet she will be saved through childbearing.” So does this mean that all women who bear children are saved? Or that women must bear children to be saved?