At First Presbyterian Church of Newport, we are fortunate to hear the Word preached with intelligence and inspiration.
Listen to sermons by Dr.
William Maxwell and Rev.
Douglas Forsberg (former
Assoc. Pastor). This link leads
you to sermons delivered
since July 2007. Archives of
sermon texts from previous
years (2006 archive,
2005 archive) are also available.
Also, there are two options to
automatically receive the
sermons:
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New Sermon Series—Through the months of September on into early June 2010, Dr. Maxwell will be preaching through the book of Romans. Apart from special Sundays and appointed seasons such as Advent and Lent/Holy Week, we will be looking at “God’s Plan for Us and Our World” in this wonderfully rich New Testament book.
The immense impact of Romans upon the Church of Jesus Christ simply cannot be described. For example, the book was used by the Lord to enable Martin Luther to grasp the meaning of what it means to be saved and justified by faith alone in Jesus Christ – and as a consequence, the Protestant Reformation was given birth.
In his commentary on Romans, Luther wrote, “This epistle is really the chief part of the New Testament and the very purest Gospel, and is worthy not only that every Christian should know it word for word, by heart, but occupy himself with it everyday, as the bread of the soul.” No less impressed with the book of Romans, John Calvin said in his commentary, “When any one gains a knowledge of this Epistle, he has an entrance opened to him to all the most hidden treasures of Scripture.”
Come, then, to our services of worship, and let us find together “bread of the soul” and “an entrance … to all the most hidden treasures of Scripture.”