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Sermon on 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, Grieving with Hope
1 Thessalonians 4:13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that
Continue reading...Sermon on Mark 5:1-20, Demons and Jesus
5:1 They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. 2 And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. 3 He
Continue reading...Sermon on Luke 8:40-56, Risky Faith
Luke 8:40 When Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him, for they were all expecting him. 41 Just then, a man named Jairus came. He was a leader of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’s feet and
Continue reading...Sermon on Isaiah 49:1-7, The Mission of the Servant of Yahweh
Have you ever been commissioned? You know, formally chosen by someone to carry out a specific work or job. Maybe it happened to you in the military. You were commissioned as an officer. Maybe you were
Continue reading...Sermon on the Lord’s Prayer
When I was growing up, but a mere lad, my family attended the local Presbyterian church. I sadly remember only a few things I learned there. That the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament did not have
Continue reading...Sermon on John 14, Bringing Others to Heaven With Us
There once was a very famous philanthropist whose gift at giving away money was unequaled in his day. Not only did he give his money, he gave his heart. He had a special knack for finding out about
Continue reading...Sermon on John 4:43-54, What It Means to Believe in Jesus
When I spoke to you last, I shared a bit of what we sometimes call our “testimony,” our recounting of our conversion experience. I told you how as a young person of 16 years I had been challenged by
Continue reading...Sermon on John 11:17-37, Jesus Is the Resurrection and the Life
I encountered Jesus at the age of 16, or maybe I should say I began encountering him. He was speaking to me through a new acquaintance at school, a guy who was challenging what I believed (I claimed to
Continue reading...Sermon on John 1:1, The Word Was God
Many years ago, I think around 1990, a woman in my church came to me concerned about her niece. Her niece, Christie, had converted to Jehovah’s Witnesses, and had corresponded with her aunt about it
Continue reading...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
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