Sermons from 2016
Lessons for Advent: The Fall of Man Into Sin and Misery
Genesis 2:15-17; Genesis 3 Please turn in your copy of the Scriptures to the Old Testament to the book of Genesis. We’ve been making our way through some of the early portions of the Scripture that set up the whole story of redemption that we read in the Bible. So our reading from Scripture today is from Genesis chapter 2 verses 15 through 17 and then chapter 3 verses 1 through 24. In previous weeks, we have considered God creating…
Lessons for Advent: Rule the Earth!
Genesis 1:26-31; Genesis 2:15-17 Please turn in your copy of God’s Word to our Old Testament scripture reading. Today it is from Genesis chapter 1. verses 26 through 31, and then chapter 2, verses 15 through 17. Let me just give a quick plug or public service announcement for a particular Sunday school class while you’re flipping in your Bibles to Genesis 1 and 2. The elective class, which meets in the Fellowship Hall classroom, has begun a series called…
Lessons for Advent: Be Fruitful and Multiply
Genesis 1:26-28; Genesis 2:15-25 If you would please turn in your copy of the scriptures to the book of Genesis. Our scripture readings are Genesis chapter one, verses 26 through 28 and chapter two, verses 15 through 25. As we spend a few Sundays this Advent season thinking on some of the grand themes of Scripture, our study will take us through, as it did last week, the days of creation. Why did God make the world and everything in…
Lessons for Advent: Creation
Genesis 1:1 And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters. And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. and it was so. And God called the expanse heaven, and there was evening, and there was morning the second day. And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together…
Responding With Thanks
Leviticus 2
How to Safely Journey to Heaven
Hebrews 13:7-16 The writer of Hebrews begins this way in verse seven. Remember, remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God, consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods which have not benefited those devoted to them.…
Minding Marriage and Money
Hebrews 13:4-6 Please turn in your copy of God’s holy word to the book of Hebrews chapter 13. Our reading will be chapter 13 verses four through six. Remember last week we entered into chapter 13, the last chapter of the book, and what we said at the outset was that our lives as Christians ought to be like a burnt offering. The burnt offerings of the Old Testament sent up a smoke, an aroma that was pleasing in the…
Loving God Means Loving Others
Hebrews 13:1-3 Amen. You may be seated. Please turn in your copy to the New Testament book of Hebrews to the 13th chapter. We hit a milestone today as we’ve been making our way through Hebrews. We come to the very last chapter in the book. The first 12 chapters of the book have taught us a lot about doctrine, who God is, who Jesus is, how Jesus is superior to Moses, to angels, to the Levitical priesthood. And now…
The Fruit of the Spirit is…Faithfulness
Galatians 5 So we’ll read from Galatians chapter 5, beginning of verse 16, where it says, But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh. For these are opposed to each other to keep you from doing the things that you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit,…
Obedience & Worship
Hebrews 12:25-29 You may be seated. Please turn in your copy of God’s word to. Hebrews, Chapter 12, our reading today is Chapter 12, verses 25 through 29. After today, we’ll just have one chapter left. But today, at the end of 12, it marks the end of 12 chapters of exhortation. Remember that we don’t know who wrote the book of Hebrews. Many think it was the Apostle Paul, but evidence proves otherwise, we think. But whoever it was,…
The Fruit of the Spirit is…Goodness
Galatians 5 This is the Apostle Paul, he says in Galatians 5.16, but I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh. For these are opposed to each other to keep you from doing the things that you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under…
Worship in the Church You Can’t See
Hebrews 12:18-24 You may be seated. Please turn in your copy of the Holy Scriptures to the New Testament, to the book of Hebrews. Our reading will be Hebrews chapter 12, verses 18 to 24. As we are making our way through the book of Hebrews, we are being reminded over and over that the Christian life is difficult. Living in the world with its influences, living where Satan dwells and has some power over us, and also living with…