Sermons from 2016 (Page 6)
Peace When There is No Peace
Psalm 3 Okay, let’s read together from Psalm 3. We’ll read the psalm in its entirety. This is a psalm of David when he fled from Absalom, his son. The story we just read from Samuel chapter 15. King David says, O Lord, how many are my foes? Many are rising against me. Many are saying of my soul, there is no salvation for him in God. But you, O Lord, are a shield about me. my glory, and the…
Trust and Obey the Messiah
Psalm 2 Let’s read from Psalm 2 where it says why do the nation’s rage and the people’s plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel Together against the Lord and against his anointed saying let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us As we make our way through it. We’ll read little more bits and pieces as we come to them. But our title tonight, the topic…
Happy & Holy or Sinful & Miserable?
Psalm 1 You’ll notice the title of our study tonight is Happy and Holy Instead of Sinful and Miserable. And that comes right out of the children’s catechism. Adam and Eve in the garden were happy and holy. They were happy because they had fellowship with God. They had a right relationship with God. They knew his law and they obeyed it. So they were happy and holy. But what happened when they sinned? They became sinful and miserable. And…
Mercy and Grace in Our Hour of Need
Hebrews 4:14-16 May be seated. Our reading from the New Testament today is from the fourth chapter of Hebrews, Hebrews chapter four, verses 14 through 16. If you make a long journey, which we are through the book of Hebrews, sometimes it’s good to stop and look at the map. And today in chapter four, verses 14 through 16, we have a passage that in a real way, in a literary way, and in a structural way in the book…
Get Your Rest!
Hebrews 4:1-11 grace to you in peace from him who is and who was and who is to come and from the seven spirits who are before his throne and Christ Jesus the faithful witness the firstborn from among the dead and the ruler over all the kings of the earth Amen. Our Lord, having greeted us, calls us, his redeemed, into his presence. And today from Psalm 95. So let us stand as we hear God himself summon us…