Sermons
Living Well – Finding God’s Love Where it Hurts the Most
Tragedy and pain have the tendency of reshaping a person’s outlook: on life, on themselves, and on God. In this sermon I want to look at how Naomi, Orpah and Ruth each processed...
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Living Well – From Bad to Worse: A New Perspective When Things Aren’t Working Out
How do we deal with circumstances that are not what we had planned or hoped for? The story of Ruth is a story of hope and promise but it begins with a man and his family who hav...
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He Is Coming Soon!
Is it a warning or a promise? Yes, both. To those who have been trying to keep one foot in the world and on foot in the kingdom, it’s a warning that time is running out. For tho...
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New Creation!
The world and its systems seem so large and powerful. We’re all familiar with the phrase, “That’s just the way the world works.” It suggests permanence. In the face of this, our...
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Behold! The White Rider!
There are times when the opposition to who we are is so significant it feels like David and Goliath. The enemy seems too powerful. So, we are given a vision of real power that e...
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Raise a Hallelujah!
Hallelujah means let us praise God! This imperative to praise is born out of the certainty that God will judge his people’s enemies justly and take his people to himself a...
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Rage of the Dragon!
Know your enemy. This is the most basic rule of warfare, but one we too often forget. Behind all the hate of God’s people, there is one real enemy. He has been defeated and cast...
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Work of Witness!
Some days it can feel like the world is spinning out of control. We can struggle, not just our place in it, but with our role. However, our role has not changed—even during the ...
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Envy: God Made Me Wrong
Envy isn’t about not having enough stuff. Rather, it is the sense that I am not enough. Seeing things in others that I wish for myself. But, I need to be the only one to have th...
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Greed: God Doesn’t Care
Greed moves beyond having what we need to live. Instead, if focuses on accumulation to define our self and status. It is ambition gone wrong. We are called to practice kindness ...
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Gluttony: Life is More Than
Food and drink are good and necessary for the health of our bodies, but we can easily overindulge those appetites, placing our physical desires over our spiritual good. To comba...
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Lust: God’s Love Is Not Enough
Men and women are designed for one another. Therefore, sexual desire isn’t sinful. But, lust is desire disordered. Rather than fulfilling our longing, it leaves us empty and sep...
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Wrath: Usurping God’s Role
Anger over injustice is good. We even see Jesus become angry in several places. But, we’re not Jesus and our anger can too easily give way to wrath. God is the only one who has ...
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Sloth: Ignoring God
Rest and leisure are good and important things. However, we can slide into spiritual laziness. When we do we do not take time to worship God or attend to our spiritual condition...
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Pride: Putting God on Trial
The sin of pride puts us over others: our fellow human beings and God. We want to put our will in the place of God’s will. When the two do not agree we turn on God rather than s...
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Our Father, Good Father
The world has taught us and continues to teach us that we do not have enough…and we never will. That poisons our thinking about offering our finances to God. We need a picture o...
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Esther: A Woman of Courageousness
The whole kingdom seemed to be against the Hebrew people, after all the king just signed an edict to put them all to death. Now Esther had to decide if she was going to reveal t...
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Hannah: A Woman of Selflessness
Her heart continued to break year after year because she was not able to give her husband a son. Hannah’s life, despite her husband’s love, had become a torment. She desired a s...
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Deborah: A Woman of Empowerment
Often leadership means empowering others to act. Deborah embodies this perfectly. Called to lead, she names the people through whom victory will come. When her general remains u...
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