Sermons from October 2023
Submission to God’s Will
Nehemiah 11:1-12:26 Amen. Turn in your copy of God’s word to Nehemiah 11. Tonight we’ll read 11 one through 12 26. And it is one of those glorious passages full of names. And I don’t know what’s more difficult you to follow them or me to pronounce them. But we do want to remember and esteem this as the word of God. He put this in a couple pages of scripture. He could have used the space otherwise, but in…
Father Abraham
Galatians 3:6-9 Please turn in your copy of God’s word to Galatians chapter three. Galatians chapter three, we have listed verses six through 14. I believe today we’ll only cover six through nine. So Galatians three, six through nine. If you’re using the pew Bible, that’s on page 973. So we’re in the midst of an argument, a written argument, Paul’s letter to the Galatian churches, a region of churches, and he’s explaining to them justification by faith. He’s just…
A Firm Promise
Nehemiah 10 Well, let’s give our attention to God’s word. We’re in chapter 10 of Nehemiah and we have some names, uh, to, to bear through. Uh, this is a section about, uh, the people of God renewing covenant officially, uh, with, with God and with one another. Um, so I’m gonna back up to verse 38, just one verse before chapter 10 begins. It says, because of all this, we make a firm covenant in writing on the seal…
An Encounter With God
Nehemiah 9 Amen. Turn in your copy of God’s word to, uh, Nehemiah chapter nine. We’re coming down the backstretch, um, 13 chapters, maybe just a couple more sermons. Uh, chapter nine, uh, is a continuation of what we looked at last week. where Ezra read the law and the hearing of the people, they began to mourn. And he said, no, wait, hold up. You need to have joy first. And so for the next week, while they celebrated…
How Do I Know If Am a Christian
1 John 3:19-24 you to turn with me in your Bibles to 1st John chapter 3. We’ll be looking together at 1st John chapter 3 this morning and we’ll be reading together verses 19 through 24. If you’re looking for that in your pew Bible it’s on page 1022, page 1022, 1st John chapter 3 and we’ll be looking together at verses 19 through 24. Before we hear God’s Word let’s take a moment and pray and ask for God’s…
Hearing With Faith
Galatians 3:1-5 You may be seated and turning your copy of God’s word to Galatians three, one to five, as you’re turning in the pages of your Bible there to the third chapter, I want to remind you where we have been, where we are headed. We’ve been thinking through Paul’s first letter that he wrote to churches where he preached on his first missionary journey. This chronologically is Paul’s first letter. He’s, upset with the Galatians because the Judaizers,…
Preaching That Works
Nehemiah 8 Amen. Please turn in your copy of God’s word to Nehemiah. Chapter eight is our passage for this evening. It has 18 verses. When we ended last week with chapter seven, we really finished the first half of the book, maybe not numerically, but at least thematically. The wall was finished and there was a desire of the people of God to repopulate the city, to get the city filled again with the right people to do the…
Union With Christ
Galatians 2:17-21 Amen. You can be seated. Please turn in your copy of God’s word to the book of Galatians, chapter two, 17 to 21. If you’re using the pew Bible, that’s on page 973. While you’re looking for that passage of scripture, I’ll mention a couple of things just by way of context. Remember last week we said that verses 15 and 16 were Paul’s thesis statement of the letter to the Galatians. We are justified by faith in…
Urban Planning
Nehemiah 7 Turn in your copy of God’s word to Nehemiah. Nehemiah chapter seven is a super duper long section. And before you get terribly afraid, it is a repeat of the other chapter of the list of names. So we will only read a portion of chapter seven. will not suffer through me reading all the Hebrew names again. But as you’re making your way to chapter seven, I want to point out to you a literary feature of…
Thesis Statement
Galatians 2:15-16 Amen, you can be seated. Please turn in your copy of the Word of God to Galatians 2, 15 and 16. The Pew Bible is page number 973, page 973. Galatians 2, 15 and 16 is what we might call a thesis sentence when you’re in school and have to write papers. Teacher wants to know what you’re writing about. What are all your supporting sentences going to be about? What are your arguments going to argue for?…