The Doctrines of Grace: How God Saves Sinners—Start to Finish

What does it mean that God saves sinners? In the fall of 2022, our evening services took up that question in a five-part series on what are often called the doctrines of grace—a summary way of understanding what it means to be a Christian: God saves sinners by his grace alone, start to finish.

The series walks the whole road of salvation. It begins in eternity past, where God chose a people in Christ before the foundation of the world—by sheer grace, according to his free good pleasure. It moves to the cross, where Christ died for all sufficiently and for the elect savingly. It pauses, as it must, to take our sin seriously—because we can't know what grace is unless we know what our sins are, any more than we can know light without darkness. It marvels at the Holy Spirit's work of regeneration: a heavenly birth, a new creation, a miraculous resurrection of dead sinners. And it ends with the golden chain of salvation that cannot be broken: God preserves his people, and so his people persevere—by faith, through trials, in love, with joy.

Each sermon expounds the Scriptures alongside the Canons of Dort, the Reformed churches' confession of these very doctrines. But the aim of the series is not merely information. Our theology in our heads must trigger down to our hearts—so that we glorify God for his grace, believe in Christ, seek God's will for our lives, and tell somebody about Christ.

Below you will find all five sermons, each with the full manuscript and audio/video. Read, listen, watch, and praise the God who saves sinners—start to finish.