Sermons by “Rev. John R. Larson”
“Duck, Duck, Goose” Luke 5:1-11
Jesus looked at Peter and said, “Don’t be afraid; from now on you will catch men.” (Luke 5:10)
View Sermon“Perfect Love” I Corinthians 13
Every giver has to be a receiver first. You and I are called to live in the “most excellent way” – a life of sacrificial love – perfect love. It truly is the best way to be. But such a way is not easy. So, take love in, take God’s love in, and then let God’s love out.
View Sermon“Unsafe Faith” II Corinthians 2:14-17
You live your life, you profess the name of Jesus, you live to support all of life, and some take a whiff of you and like how you smell, but others smell you and say that you stink. Your faith makes you smell and not everyone is going to like how you smell. Jesus, in His teaching in the Sermon on the Plain said, “Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for that is how their fathers treated the false prophets.” (Luke 6:26)
View Sermon“About Time” Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
How do you use your time? What impact does this gift have on you and also on others?
View Sermon“The Other Side of Christmas” Luke 2:25-40
The days after Christmas can be difficult. But what a great thing it is that we can live on the other side of Christmas. We celebrate that Christmas is more than just a temporary feeling. We rejoice that God’s eternal purpose for us is the giving of His own Son for us that we would know eternal peace.
View Sermon“Come to Bethlehem; Go Home a Different Way” Matthew 2:7-12
Come to Bethlehem, see God’s answer for sin and hell and death and then go home a different way.
View Sermon“A Return To Normal” Matthew 1:18-25
An angel speaking? A miraculous conception? A son who will save his people from their sins? Normal? God doesn’t do normal.
View Sermon“Slow Down” Luke 1:39-56
Slowing down to see self clearly is important. That time of slowing down, repenting, can begin the great reversal in us. And then God, in His plan, “Lifts up the humble and fills the hungry with good things.”
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