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Showing posts with label Hope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hope. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Sermon Video: The sign of God's covenant with Noah, Genesis 9:1-17

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Symbols can be powerful, they can evoke love or hate, assurance or fear.  They can be put to righteous purposes, or evil ones.  In Genesis 9...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Sermon Video: Jesus: Fulfilling God's promises to the Jews, showing mercy to the Gentiles - Romans 15:7-13

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In his conclusion to the section that began in chapter 14 about the need for Christians to accept each other, Paul offers us a telling analo...
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Sermon Video: A Zeal that imitates Jesus - Romans 12:11-12

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The Church, in America at least, isn't suffering from a lack of zeal.  We have plenty of passionate intensity, much of it in the form of...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Sermon Video: Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ - Romans 8:35-39

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How confident are you in the love of God? The Apostle Paul wants you to know that if your hope is in Christ, the love of God CANNOT be taken...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Sermon Video: "If God is for us, who can be against us?" - Romans 8:31-32

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"It sounds too good to be true."  Maybe that's what your heart says when you hear the wondrous Good News that God loves you an...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Sermon Video: All Creation awaits the Redemption of God's people, Romans 818-25

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We, as God's people redeemed by Jesus, are already saved, but not have not yet been fully transformed into what we will become (Christ-l...
Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Sermon Video: "comfort my people, says your God", Isaiah 40:1-5

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The prophet Isaiah offers a word of hope and comfort to the generation to follow that will experience the destruction of Jerusalem and the B...
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Sermon Video: "hope does not put us to shame" - Romans 5:3-5

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Suffering is an oft misunderstood topic.  Many religions and philosophies, including people within Christianity, get it wrong.  Suffering is...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

Sermon Video: "being fully persuaded that God had the power to do what he had promised." - Romans 4:13-22

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Why was Abraham able to wait, without losing his faith in God and hope in God's promises, for YEARS as both he and Sarah grew older and ...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

Sermon Video: "I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!" - Mark 9:14-29

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 Is faith all or nothing?  Is there room for hesitancy, fear, or doubt?  Faith isn't like a light switch, all on or all off, but a conti...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Sermon Video: Five loaves and two fish - Mark 6:30-44

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 Instead of finding rest in a solitary place, Jesus and the disciples are met with a large crowd.  Jesus has compassion on them and teaches ...
Friday, December 25, 2020

Sermon Video: The Word Became Flesh - John 1:14

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  Amidst the wonder of Christmas, the angels and shepherds, the wise men and the star, is a deeper amazing truth. That moment in Bethlehem ...
Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Sermon Video: The Light Shines in the Darkness - John 1:1-5

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 Where does the Christmas story begin?  Matthew starts it with a genealogy, Luke with the birth of John the Baptist, and Mark with the minis...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Sermon Video: A world without life after death - 1 Corinthians 15:29-32

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What would be different about our world if we knew that there was no life after death? Considering that most people both now and throughout...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

Sermon Video: In Christ all will be made alive - 1 Corinthians 15:20-22

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The fear of death is common to all of humanity, and in the present COVID-19 crisis, it is being felt keenly by millions. But death is not t...
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Sermon Video: God will preserve his people, increasing his glory - Jude 24-25

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Having just instructed the Church to show mercy to those who doubt, Jude now encourages all believers by assuring us that God is capable of ...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Sermon Video: The Greatest of these is Love - 1 Corinthians 13:8-13

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In the culmination of his ode to the supremacy of Love, the Apostle Paul emphasizes the permanence of love by comparing it to the temporary ...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Sermon Video: Real Love - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

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Christians are supposed to be known for their love, love for each other, and love for even their enemies.  This, of itself, is beyond our ca...
Friday, April 19, 2019

Sermon Video: Jesus and his friends - Luke 22:14-16

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Less than twenty-four hours before his brutal death upon a Roman cross, Jesus celebrates the Passover with his chosen disciples; his friends...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Sermon Video: The Anchor holds, in spite of the storm - Acts 27

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During the journey to Rome, where he will face a legal trial despite his innocence, the Apostle Paul faces a more immediate threat: a terrif...