Sermons from 2021 (Page 3)
What Shall We Do?, Part 2
Acts 2:41-47 Please remain standing and turn in your copy of the word of God to the New Testament book of Acts. Our reading will be chapter two, verses 41 through 47. Before we read God’s word, let’s ask for his help and blessing. Pray with me. Our Lord, we want your word to do its work this day. So still our minds and calm our hearts. open our eyes, unstop our ears, unclench our fist, and make us willing…
A Great Conflict
Daniel 10:1 All right, turn to the book of Daniel, chapter 10, one, and we’re gonna read through chapter 11, verse two. Chapters 10, 11, and 12 go together, and we probably should be covering all three chapters all at once, but we’re not. We’re going to look at Chapter 10 tonight, Chapter 11 next week, and then Chapter 12 the week after that. So three more nights of Daniel, but the next three weeks really go hand in hand…
What Shall We Do?, Part 1
Acts 2:37-41 Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified. Now, when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, brothers, what shall we do? And Peter said to them, repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus. Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins and you…
God Will Take Care of You
Daniel 9:24-27 Let’s give our attention to God’s holy word. Daniel chapter nine, beginning at verse 24. These are the words of Gabriel to Daniel. 70 weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place. Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the…
Peter’s Pentecost Preaching
Acts 2:14-41 Let’s give our attention to the reading of God’s word. Before we do, let’s pray together. Lord, we need eyes that see, and so give us sight. We need ears that hear, so unstop our ears. And we need hearts that perceive this to be the very word of God. And so soften our hearts, free us from the cares of the world for a few moments, so that your word may be deeply implanted into each of…
How Loved Are You?
Daniel 9:20-23 Let’s hear the word of the living God. Daniel chapter nine, beginning at verse 20. This is Daniel. And he says, and praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my plea before the Lord my God for the holy hill of my God. While I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, came to me in a swift flight as at…
A Gift From the Throne
Acts 2:1-13 Please turn in your copy of God’s Word to Luke chapter 2. I’m sorry, Acts chapter 2. I knew this would happen. We’re done with Luke. Well, we’re not done with Luke because he wrote Acts, but Acts chapter 2 verses 1 to 13. And as you make your way there, remind you we are in our studies of the first couple chapters. Jesus has ascended into heaven. His disciples gathered about 120 of them, along with the…
How to Pray & What to Say
Daniel 9:1-19 Let’s give our attention to God’s word. Daniel chapter nine, we begin at verse one. It says, in the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, by descent Amid, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet must pass before the end of the desolations of…
The First Congregational Meeting
Acts 1:12-26 Acts chapter one, beginning at verse 12, all the way through 26. This is the first congregational meeting where the church replaces one of their lost leaders. Before we read God’s word, let’s look to him in prayer. Our father, as we give attention to your word, we pray that you would open our eyes. so that we might behold wonderful things from your law through our Lord Jesus Christ, we pray, amen. Hear the word of the…
Forewarned is Forearmed
Daniel 8 Let’s give our attention to God’s word, Daniel chapter eight, beginning at verse one. In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first. And I saw in the vision, and when I saw, I was in Susa, the capital, which is in the province of Elam. And I saw in the vision, and I was at the Ulai Canal. I raised my…
You Are My Witnesses
Acts 1:6-11 Please remain standing and turn in your copy of God’s Word to Acts chapter 1. Today we’ll be reading verses 6 through 11. Remember that the book of Luke and the book of Acts were written as one book by Luke the physician. He meticulously interviewed those who were eyewitnesses to the gospel events, but he also was Paul’s traveling companion, likely to Rome where we end in the book of Acts. And so we have the inspiration…
War on the Saints
Daniel 7 Amen. Turn to Daniel chapter seven. As you’re making your way there, I’ll point out to you that we’re in the center of the book, maybe not by chapter numbers, but we’re in the center of the book. And we move from Daniel’s firsthand accounts of, or some of the firsthand accounts of Daniel’s life in Babylon under several different leaders. Tonight in chapter seven, we’re back to the time under Belshazzar, I think last week we were…