Proverbs 25:6-7 Psalm 112:1-10 Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 Luke 14:1, 7-14 Audio Link When I was a police office, I told myself initially, that I wanted to do this job because I wanted to “Help Others”. On the surface, this was very much true, I liked doing, and there is nothing wrong with doing for others. … [Read more…]
Hebrews 11:29-12:2 Luke 12:49-56 Link to Audio Version Video Sermon Today’s readings from Hebrews and Luke can be a little shocking. We hear of people of the past who achieved great things, in faith. The Reading from Hebrews tells of those, who in their faith, received torture, mocking, flogging, imprisonment and on and on. Luke … [Read more…]
Some of you may know, I am on internship now. Although I do not believe that the load is anyway too much, in fact it is light right now, but I manage to become still, that person distracted by shiny objects and such find ways to be busy. When this happens, I fail at … [Read more…]
Link to Audio Version Ecclesiastes 1:2 Ecclesiastes 1:12–14 Ecclesiastes 2:18–23 Psalm 49:1–12 Colossians 3:1–11 Luke 12:13–21 When the last Austin Powers movie was released there was a lot commercials and hype around the movie. Hearing or reading about it seemed unavoidable. One of Mike Meyers’ co-stars commented on what the actor was like as he … [Read more…]
Link to Audio Sermon Galatians 5:1 Galatians 5:13-25 1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. 13 You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; … [Read more…]
Audio Sermon Link Luke 8:26-39 It is all to easy to dismiss, with our scientific knowledge of today, that this man who approached Jesus in Gerasen as being just mentally ill. We can so easily justify that the lack of knowledge of the people of Jesus’s time, just did not understand mental illness and that … [Read more…]
Audio version of sermon Luke 7:36-8:3 I was speaking with a friend of mine this last week and he was telling me about a book that he had read that looks at the difference between sin and evil. The book is “People of the Lie”. The author is Dr. M. Scott Peck, a psychiatrist and … [Read more…]
Luke 10:38-42 38 Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. 39 She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was saying. 40 But Martha was distracted by her many tasks; so she came to … [Read more…]
Romans 4:1-5, 13-16 1 What then are we to say was gained by Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.” … [Read more…]
Audio Version Link This is from a five minute sermon that I was to preach. Although in general, I disagree with a five minute sermon length, there are times and places where this may be appropriate. The words of God through Zechariah are spoken to the peoples of Israel. These same words in verse 9 are … [Read more…]