Easter Sunday–I awoke to rain. I don’t remember very many (if any) rainy Easters! Easter is late this year–well, not as late as it could be (which due to the calendar calculations could go all the way down to the last week of April). Theoretically, Easter could be scheduled almost a week plus a full …
Category Archives: Sermons
Peace-Making
My topic in Sunday’s sermon was “peace.” God wants us to have peace, he provides peace, he fills our life. During the sermon I shared “10 Steps to Peace Making”. 1. Yearn to see peace restored 2. Pray for self-cleansing and guidance 3. Sincerely bring the estranged together 4. Empathize with all concerned 5. Listen …
It’s Sunday Again-March 22: It’s About How We Live
Ephesians is about the conduct of the church. The practical or application section of the book (Eph. 4-6) speaks again and again of how we live. We know how to live because of what we know. Our calling changes our conduct. Our doctrine informs our duty. The connection between beliefs and behaviors must never be …
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It’s Sunday Again-March 15: Three Calls
The question has been asked in various forms. “How shall we then live?” How do you live your life? The little verb “called to make a journey” (metakaleomai) is used only four times in the NT, all in Acts. Joseph sent for his father and family (7:14). Cornelius sent for Peter (10:32). Paul sent for …
Holy Dissatisfaction
I have noted that lots of negative adjectives are somehow improved in the Christian vocabulary by prefixing “holy”. Anger may be a problem, but “holy anger” makes us like God. I avoid wrath, but is not a little “holy wrath” God-like? I am dissatisfied! If it makes you feel better, mine is a holy dissatisfaction. …
Bridge to somewhere, or bridge to nowhere?
In the midst of the national controversy about the Alaskan “bridge to nowhere,” I was reminded of the illustration that pictures a sermon as a bridge from one shore (the word of God) to another shore (human experience or culture). I couldn’t help but ask myself about my recent sermons, “Were they a bridge to somewhere, or …
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Up, Up, Up–Ephesians 6
1. FACE UP to the challenge, be spiritually strong in the Lord, in the Savior. 2. OWN UP to the necessity, stand against Satanic scheme and strategies. 3. SUIT UP, in approved equipment which equips us to stand. Of six pieces of armor, the one offensive weapon is the sword, the others are defensive. 4. STAND …