Sermons
A Battle On Your Hands
I don’t know why it is, but I have become a worrier. I don’t think I have always been this way. I don’t seem to worry about today or tomorrow, but I do worry about what may happen 5 and 10 years from now. I arrived at Ascension quite early last Sunday and I sat in the front pew under the pulpit, and I prayed. Hard. With tears and emotion. I prayed about me and you, about the world and the needs of so many. And as I prayed about the stuff that fills me with fear – the stuff in the future – God gave me a calm and a peace. I sensed that I didn’t have to worry, He was going to take care of it. The battle on my hands was the battle in His hands.
View SermonWhat Does God Want?
Authentic people are broken people. But they are people that God puts back together. Authentic people are those who believe in a real God. This real, authentic God has the best in store for us. Our saving God clearly says, “Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign Lord? Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?” “Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each one according to his ways, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin shall not be your downfall. Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, O house of Israel? For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!” (Ezekiel 18:23, 30-32)
View SermonListen to Her
Proverbs, one of the 66 books in the Bible is a book about wisdom. Wisdom, not making decisions that you later regret, is a wonderful attribute. Solomon wrote much of what we find in Proverbs. He was the man, when God said he could ask for anything, prayed for this, “Give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?” (I Kings 3:9) What did he pray for? Wisdom. He needed it. I need it. You need it. And God gives it.
View SermonJohn 6!
No substitutes in life will ever fill our soul. No looking deep inside ourself for life’s answer will work. No pleasures that we seek can ever give us what will last. John 6 is clear, Jesus satisfies the hungry soul. When the virus began and when we only offered on-line services and could not meet together as a church, I would look into the camera and say, “Trust in Jesus.” That is the same word I give to you. Why? Because that is what Jesus tells us to do. Trust Him. We do not have a Christless religion, but a Christ-filled faith.
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