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Sermon on Joel 2:19-27, Hope for the Hopeless
“I love you…I love you and I’ll never leave you.” That is what she had been told, and that is what she had believed. After all, Sandra and Dave had been dating for some time by that point.
Continue reading...Sermon on John 4:1-26, Jesus’ Outreach to Unbelievers
I am the proud grandfather of 9 grandkids. Grandkids are grand. I anticipated that they would be but didn’t realize just how grand it was until that first one was born. In a recent conversation
Continue reading...Sermon on James 5:13-18, Prayer for Healing
It was 1974. I was so discouraged. Our good friend had entered the hospital with leukemia, discovered she was pregnant, and the elders of our church came and prayed for her. I remember one of them saying
Continue reading...Sermon on James 5:1-6, How to Handle Wealth
The Armenians have a proverb: If you can’t be rich, be the neighbor of a rich man. The Armenians are apparently much more trusting of rich people than James was. When we come to our passage in
Continue reading...Sermon on the Meaning of Love According to 1 Corinthians 13:1-7
In the Name of Love – A Quest for the Meaning of True Love U2 Lyrics – Pride (In The Name Of Love) One man come in the name of love, One man come and go One come he to justify, One man to overthrow In
Continue reading...Sermon on Imitating Jesus
Who do you imitate? Do you like the idea of imitating? What, if anything, puts you off to imitating someone great? Ephesians 5:1–2, Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in
Continue reading...Sermon on Psalm 73
In the late 1500’s, a Spanish Carmelite monk by the name of John of the Cross, wrote a poem that has come to be called “The Dark Night.” In this poem he described the manner in which the soul “departs,
Continue reading...Sermon on Galatians 1:4, The Great Rescue
3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be
Continue reading...Sermon on Jesus Last Words on the Cross: I Thirst
I Thirst John 19:28-30 Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge
Continue reading...Sermon on Ezekiel 36:33-38
Ezekiel 36:33 ” ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt. 34 The desolate land will be cultivated
Continue reading...Sermon on Ephesians 3:14-21
My wife loves me. I have grasped this and know this experientially. I have been married to Mary Ann for almost 33 years and I am still in love with her. There is no one more suited to me or who has
Continue reading...Entertainment and the Lordship of Christ
“Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity
Continue reading...Christian View of the Body
In August 1992, Helena Christensen and Michael Hutchence, founder and lead singer of INXS, were walking late at night on a street in Copenhagen after drinking heavily when he refused to move for a taxi.
Continue reading...Sermon on 2 Samuel 11 & 12, the Anatomy of Sin
The Anatomy of Sin in the Believer’s Life – 2 Samuel 11,12 We justify stepping out of our responsibilities We entertain the possibility of sin in our lives We linger over temptation We devalue
Continue reading...Sermon on Luke 23:32-33, 39-43, Today You Will Be With Me in Paradise
“Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be executed. When they came to the place called the Skull, there they crucified him, along with the criminals – one on his right, the
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