Sermons from January 2023
God Sees Your Behavior
James 5:1-6 James chapter five, verses one through six will be our passage. And it looks like we have maybe about three more messages in James. And then I think we’ll go back to the Old Testament and pick up where we left off in Judges. So we did Joshua, we’ll pick back up in Judges. But for now, let’s give our attention to God’s word. This is James, the brother of our Lord. And he says to the Christians…
Divine Guidance
Acts 16:6-10 Amen. You can be seated. Please turn in your copy of God’s word to Acts chapter 16, verses six through 10. As you’re making your way there, I believe this is our maybe our second or third Sunday back in the book of Acts. And there’s always this dilemma that preachers face. Do I preach little sections and uncover more or big sections and get through it faster? And so I’ve been burdened with that lately. I think…
If the Good Lord’s Willing
James 4:13-17 James chapter four verses 13 to 17. This is, um, the wise advice of James, the half brother of the Lord Jesus, who is teaching the Christians who are scattered across the world, uh, how to tune up their lives, how to tighten things up in order to live for him. And so tonight, um, It’s just gonna be all meddling, right? No preaching, meddling. He’s gonna talk about how you spend your time. Nobody loves it. Nobody…
A Right Hand Man
Acts 16:1-5 Amen. You can be seated. Our reading from the New Testament today is Acts chapter 16, verses one through five. And if you’d like to turn there, we’ll read in just a moment. We have not been in the book of Acts maybe since the middle of November. So we’re returning to our study of the the acts of the risen Lord, the ascended, risen and ascended Christ is building his church through the work of the apostles,…
Reckless Tongues
James 4:11-12 Okay, James chapter four, verses 10 through 12. Verse 10 begins this way, humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you. Do not speak evil against one another brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and one judge. He who…
Righteous Living in a Rotten World
Psalm 14 You may be seated. Please turn in your copy of God’s word to Psalm 14. Next week, we’ll make a return to the book of Acts and pick up where the risen Lord is sending his apostles and converts into the world to make the gospel known to the ends of the earth. But today I thought it would be good for us to think on a psalm that will help us with an outlook for the new…
World, Flesh, and Devil, Part 2
James 4:6-10 Well, we want to think tonight on James chapter 4, verses 6 through 10. So if you’d like to make your way there. Last week we looked at verses 1 through 6. Tonight we’ll look at 6 through 10. And then next week we’ll look at verses 11 and 12. And this whole section, if you look at maybe the heading in your Bible, depending on what yours says. Mine says, warning against worldliness. I have as our…
Christmas Characters: Simeon & Anna
Luke 2:22-40 Luke chapter two, verses 22 through 40 is our passage for today. We’re ending our little Christmas series we’ve done over the past seven or eight weeks on Christmas characters. And we end today with, uh, Simeon and Anna who were present in the temple when Jesus was presented by his, by his parents. And so Luke chapter two verses 22 through 40 will be our passage. Before we read God’s word, let’s ask for his help and…
Church Strife
James 4:1-6 So God’s Word, James chapter four, verses one through 12, says this, what causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and you do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and you quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly to spend it on your…
Christmas Characters: Wise Men
Matthew 2:1-12 Turn in your copy of God’s word to Matthew chapter two. In Matthew chapter two, we’ll be reading verses one through 12. So over the last, uh, several weeks, maybe since the Sunday after Thanksgiving, we’ve looked at, uh, Christmas characters. We’ve looked at, um, Zacharias and Elizabeth, we’ve looked at Mary and Joseph. We’ve looked at the angels, the shepherds, Herod. Today, we’ll look at the wise men. And next week, we’ll finish that series by looking…