Category: <span>Sermons</span>

Yesterday we participated in the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. In the literature preparing for this day of prayer from Voice of the Martyrs, Todd Nettleton was quoted as saying “Our persecuted family is not asking us to pray that the persecution will stop. They’re asking us to pray that they will remain...

It has often troubled me that when we speak of Peter we generally speak of what we perceive as his negative traits and experiences. We talk about him as brash, as zealous without wisdom, as the one that lacked faith and sank when he walked on water with Jesus, as the one that denied Jesus three...

In Numbers 13-14 we are told the story of Joshua, Caleb and twelve other leaders being chosen to go out as spies into the “Promised Land”. They were given the task of finding out what the land and their enemies were like and to return with a report for Moses, Aaron and all of Israel....

Romans 4:3 quotes Genesis 15:6, “Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness . . .” There is something mysterious and magnificent about faith. It provides power and opportunity, strength and hope and ultimately it is our way of embracing the goodness, love and plan of God for our lives. Ultimately, faith...

This week we started to continue our series earlier this year in which we studied the lives of six Biblical characters and how they followed God through different circumstances of their lives. The continuation of the series looks at the same six people and how their willingness to follow God through circumstance gave them the...

The first three words of I Corinthians 13:8 end our series on God’s character and our identity as a church. Paul writes, “Love never fails.” The words are exciting and comforting, but they should also bring us a joy that comes from realizing that God will accomplish His purpose in our lives. A more descriptive translation...

The Apostle Paul wrote that love “bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” Many translations have changed “all things” to always. Always sounds good, but the truth is, I believe it changes the entire meaning of the statement. Always is a statement of time, a vague statement at that. Have...

I Corinthians 13:6 says Love “does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth.” The Greek word translated first as rejoice is chairo which means “to rejoice, be glad, thrive”. As I was studying this week I could not get away from two questions, what makes me glad and what makes God glad? What is...

In his detailed description of love in I Corinthians 13 Paul moves from telling us that love is patient and kind to telling us what love is not. “Love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek it’s own, is not provoked, thinks no...

I Corinthians 13:4 says “Love suffers long and is kind.” There is a correlation between patience and kindness, they work with each other, almost for each other. It is nearly impossible to be patient out of obligation, out of fear or selfishness, guilt or ambition. Patience is one of those things that does not appear...