Sermons from 2021 (Page 4)
Luke-Acts
Acts 1:1-5 Our reading from the word of God Acts chapter one verses one through five. Before we read, let’s ask for God’s help and blessing. Pray with me. Lord, give us eyes that see and ears that hear and hearts that perceive all that you are doing as you are at work in us and in the world and give us hands and feet willing and ready to go and do the work of the gospel. as you have…
Darius in HIs Bed Chambers
Daniel 6 Let’s give our attention to God’s word, Daniel chapter six, beginning at verse one. It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120 satraps to be throughout the whole kingdom. And over them three presidents of whom Daniel was one, to whom these satraps should give account so that the king might suffer no loss. So that the king might suffer no loss. I read that a second time, didn’t I? I had to get my eyes checked…
The Man of Heaven
Luke 24:50-53 Please remain standing and turn in your copy of God’s Word to Luke chapter 24. We’ll be reading today verses 50 to 53 minus some gaps and breaks or absences. We’ve been studying Luke for three years now. I think on the sermon audio count, there are maybe 125 sermons on Luke. Now the Lord’s prayer took, you know, maybe eight or 10 of those, but, but we’ve, we’ve heard a lot of Luke. Well, fasten your seatbelts…
The Greater King’s Edict
Daniel 5 Let’s give our attention to God’s Word, Daniel 5. There are 31 verses. So beginning at verse one, it says, King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand. Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, and that the king and his lords and his…
Heralds of the Risen Christ
Luke 24:44-49 Please remain standing and turn in your copy of God’s Word to Luke chapter 24. Our reading today will be verses 44 through 49. Luke 24 verses 44 through 49. Next week we’ll end our series in Luke, but we will be not only at the end of Luke, but at the beginning of Acts. where we see Jesus ascension into heaven and sending his apostles into the world. Before we read God’s word, let’s look to him…
Who Really Rules?
Daniel 4 Turn in your copy of the scriptures to the fourth chapter of Daniel. We’re nearing the middle of the book, and so we’re getting through the narrative or the storytelling, and then we’ll turn over towards the other side, which is maybe prophecy visions and some of the stranger things. So chapter four begins with Nebuchadnezzar praising God. He tells about his second dream. Daniel interprets the dream. The dream comes true. And then there’s a back end…
Peace to You!
Luke 24:36-43 Please remain standing and turn in your copy of the scriptures to Luke chapter 24. Our reading will be verses 36 to 43. As you’re making your way there, we have maybe two Sundays left in the gospel of Luke. Next week, we’ll see Jesus preparing through Bible school, if you will, his disciples to go into the world and preach the gospel. And then two weeks from today, the week after next, we’ll see Jesus ascended into…
I Will Be With You!
Daniel 3 Turn in your copy of God’s Word to Daniel chapter 3. We’ll read the chapter in its entirety. I believe it’s 30 verses. This is Daniel. Actually, it’s not Daniel and the fiery furnace. It’s Daniel’s three companions in the fiery furnace. I had to realize in studying this passage that Daniel is not He’s not involved, it’s just his three friends. So hear God’s word with me. Chapter three of Daniel, beginning at verse one. King Nebuchadnezzar…
How Jesus Reads the Bible
Luke 24:13-35 Please remain standing and turn in your copy of the scriptures to Luke chapter 24. Today we’ll be reading verses 13 through verses 35, 13 to 35. This is the second of three of the gospel accounts, at least in Luke, of Jesus’ post-resurrection appearance, as you can read in Matthew. and Mark, as well as John, other events in Jesus’ post-resurrection life before his ascension, but we give our attention to those which are in Luke. So…
The LORD’s World Plan
Daniel 2 So our reading tonight will be the whole chapter of Daniel chapter two. There are 49 verses. And so let’s give our attention to the reading of God’s word. You’ll notice in chapter two, verse four, it says, then the Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic, and then it goes on from there. From that point forward, for a little ways, Daniel, it’s not written in Hebrew, but it’s written in Aramaic, and then it picks back…
No Idle Tale
Luke 24:1-12 Luke chapter 24, verses 1 through 12, the account of the resurrection. Before we read, let’s ask for God’s help. Lord, we remember the parable that you spoke to your disciples, that the word of God is like a seed. It is cast by the sower and it falls on different sorts of ground. Lord, let this seed not fall among the rock. Let it not fall among the path or even among the weeds, lest it be…
Daniel in the Lions Den
Daniel 1 So as we start a new book, it’s probably helpful to know a couple things about the book of Daniel. You probably know about Daniel in the lion’s den. You know Daniel wanted to eat the right diet, not the Babylonian diet. You know that he was the interpreter of dreams. And those are all neat little stories. We all have been challenged in American Christian preaching. Dare to be. Daniel, right? You’ve heard that. You too can…