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Showing posts with label The Holy Spirit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Holy Spirit. Show all posts
Thursday, December 18, 2025

Sermon Video: The Supporting Cast at Advent: Simeon - Luke 2:25-35

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  After the shepherds and the angels had paid their visit on the day of Jesus' birth, Luke offers a look at two individuals led by the H...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Sermon Video: Sing and Make Music to the Lord - Ephesians 5:15-20

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After warning disciples of Jesus that they need to make "the most of every opportunity" through wise living because the "days...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Sermon Video: Getting a New Attitude - Ephesians 4:17-24

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  The Apostle Paul insists to his readers that they cannot live any longer "as the Gentiles do."  He then describes humanity apart...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Sermon Video: We are God's Dwelling Place - Ephesians 2:19-22

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Leave it to God's grace to go far beyond our expectations.  The Apostle Paul begins by telling the Gentile followers of Jesus at Ephesus...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Sermon Video: God has a plan for each one of us - Ephesians 2:10

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Ephesians 2:8-9 is an amazing ode to God's plan to save those who trust in Christ by grace.  However, God's plan for his people does...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Sermon Video: The Holy Spirit is our guarantee - Ephesians 1:11-14

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Already in Ephesians Paul has shared with us the awesome benefits of being "in him," that is, in Jesus Christ: (1) We have become ...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Sermon Video: The Son before Bethlehem, John 1:1-3,14

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  Where was Jesus before Bethlehem?  For ordinary human beings like us that's a question that doesn't go anywhere, our lives began a...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

What does the book of Acts say about the relationship between Jesus' followers and 2nd Temple Judaism? - part 5

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 I've taken the material from my previously published study { What does the New Testament say about the relationship of Jesus’ followers...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

What does the book of Acts say about the relationship between Jesus' followers and 2nd Temple Judaism? - part 4

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 I've taken the material from my previously published study { What does the New Testament say about the relationship of Jesus’ followers...
Monday, June 10, 2024

Sermon Video: Cain: "sin is crouching at your door" - Genesis 4:1-7

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The story of God's involvement with humanity continues in Genesis with the children of Adam and Eve: Cain and Abel. Cain's experien...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Sermon Video: The Competency of God's People - Romans 15:14-16

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  Are you an optimist or a pessimist about the Church's future?  No matter what generation or geographic location that question is asked...
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Sermon Video: The same attitude toward each other as Jesus had -Romans 15:1-6

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Why should Christians of "strong" faith bear with those whose faith is "weak"?  The answer certainly isn't to bolste...
Monday, August 28, 2023

Sermon Video: Love Must be Sincere - Romans 12:9-10

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What does a Christ-like community look like?  The Apostle Paul answers the question by starting with (1) sincere love, and then adding to th...
Sunday, March 19, 2023

Sermon Video: When God sets you free, who can condemn you? - Romans 8:33-34

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Using Monty Python and the Holy Grail's infamous witch trial (witch=wood=duck) as a foil for humanity's imperfect justice, the compa...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Sermon Video: What Should We Pray for? - Romans 8:26-27

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We need to pray.  A disciples of Jesus Christ, as a people called out of the darkness into the light, but still living in a world mired in s...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Sermon Video: Live According to the Spirit - Romans 8:5-13

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What is the difference between living according to the flesh (the fallen human nature we were born with) and according to the Spirit?  Death...
Monday, November 7, 2022

Sermon Video: "do not let sin reign" - Romans 6:8-14

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Having described the condition of the redeemed Christian as being 'dead to sin' and 'alive with Christ' and 'alive to Go...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #7: Zechariah 4:6

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  Zechariah 4:6     New International Version So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Manifest (TV show), Romans 8:28, and contextual interpretation of Scripture

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  Romans 8:28  New International Version And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called a...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Sermon Video: What is the Kingdom of God like? - Mark 4:26-34

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  Using parables Jesus explains the concept of the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is the working out of God's will here in this wor...