Download audio Download sermon James 2:14-26 We’ve been away from James for a month, what with Messiah, an Advent sermon from Revelation 12, and the Sunday School Christmas Program. But it isn’t necessary to review before proceeding, as is so often the case when we take up a text again after an interruption. In those […]
Download audio Download sermon 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Though technically the Advent season is over, I have prolonged it by one week, choosing to preach this morning on the “coming” or “advent” of the Lord, in this case his second advent. And, since the Second Coming focuses our attention on our future life and on the […]
Download audio Download sermon Theological Definitions Luke 2:1-15 We will depart this morning and next from our current series of sermons on the Book of Acts to consider themes appropriate to the Advent Season: today a sermon on the Lord’s first coming, next Lord’s Day, God willing, a sermon on his second coming. Text Comment […]
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Download audio Download sermon Revelation 12:1-17 I think we are all sufficiently aware of the fact that Christmas has been commercialized in our culture and that sentiment founded on everything from winter scenery to family reunions has for most Americans replaced its great theological and redemptive meaning. Far too few Americans even know what the […]
Download audio Download sermon Acts 8:1-25 The execution of Stephen, we now learn, emboldened the religious leadership to unleash a more systematic persecution of Christians living in Jerusalem, to go for the jugular as we might say. And as we will read, Saul of Tarsus was the principal instigator, a man perhaps already desperately seeking […]
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Download audio Download sermon Acts 6:8-8:1 We have an unusually long text to read this morning, but it is very clearly a distinct section of Luke’s narrative, what scholars call a pericope. As we read it put these two questions to yourself: why did Luke think it important to tell this story with so much […]