The Gospel Shown In Life And Faith - A Short Sermon
/Showing Christ to the world.
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Showing Christ to the world.
God calls us from the life and sin and destruction and to the peace of Christ and peace with each other. Let us learn to pursue peace as God instructs.
Jesus took up a towel and served, and told us to take up our cross. He never told us to take up our pitchfork.
We have a mixed relationship with justice and holiness. We alternately want it pursue or we want to flee from it. What is justice so important to us? How do we even come by the notion of it? Study with us.
In Luke 13, Jesus was asked about tragedy/atrocity the killed a number of people. Was it because they were being punished by God? Jesus tells us how to take a personally beneficial lesson from any tragedy.
A look at at a few incidents that vividly portray to us the great love of Jesus for us.
Ben Allen takes us through a study of Philippians 4 to what was Paul said he learned as the secret to contentment.
In John 8, Jesus address people who were trying hard not to believe and to misconstrue what He was saying. In this sermon, we consider a great and bold statement from Him that comes from this.
As study of companion Psalms 105 & 106. One tells of the steadfast faithfulness of God while the other details the constant unfaithfulness of Israel.
This chapter full of connections — mentioning the shared faith and experience of 34 different people and groups — is the spiritual equivalent of the “______ begat _______” of the Old Testament. The “begat” chapters told of the physical and family connections of a physical covenant. The shared faith relationships of a spiritual covenant tell the same type of study.
As Romans 15 continues, the apostle Paul turns to items important to him: preaching and sharing with those in need.
Paul warned the Corinthians to “take heed lest they fall” as the wilderness generation did. Among the sins that cost them so dearly was grumbling.
At look at the common biblical figures for danger and destruction to believers drawn by descriptions as animals. Starting with the lion, the “king of the jungle,” and on down to various types of dogs, beasts and vipers, what lessons do we learn from these animal metaphors?
God cannot lie. Satan can’t seem to not to. Study with us Satan’s deceptions and God’s truth.
Continuing one of the great themes of Romans, “living by faith,” and in particular of living together (beginning in Romans 14), the first part of Romans 15 continues and states this theme several times. We might summarize this section of “Accept one another — the the glory of God, as was prophesied.”
Rick Erb’s lesson takes us on a survey of several passages that teach of the importance of trusting in the Lord.
Today many sins, especially those that have behaviors that can be called “addictive,” have been redefined as a diseases, sicknesses. While acknowledging that the “disease model” of treatment can help people mitigate or cease their sins, we must acknowledge they scripture tells of a moral responsibility to behavior, and the great need for the gospel is that “all have sinned,” not “all are sick.”
The gospel teaches that the just shall live by faith. Romans 14 & 15 teaches that they should live by faith together. Study this text with us.
Visiting preachers, and preacher here in years past, Roy Fields reminds of some "Old Words" that we are to remain faithful too no matter how much time goes by.
A brief look at a strange little incident in the life of Christ where Peter is asked about Jesus paying a tax for the temple and him answering for Jesus. Then the tax being paid with money found in a fish even though Jesus shouldn't have needed to pay.
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