What do an ancient warrior and a modern mom have in common? The answer is that they both need to turn to the Lord when they struggle! That’s the point of this Mother’s Day sermon from Psalm 27. In this psalm, King David reveals how he prayed in the midst of a great personal crisis.…
It all comes down to trust. That’s the message of Psalm 2. We can trust in ourselves, or our jobs, or our families, or our governments – or a thousand other possibilities. But in the end, Jesus Christ is the most worthy of our deepest and lasting confidence. In this sermon, we consider three reasons…
“The pulpit leads the world.” So writes Herman Melville in his classic novel, Moby Dick. In this installation sermon for Andrew Johnson as our church’s Associate Pastor, Pastor Don takes us through the Lord’s challenge to embrace the high calling of the ministry of God’s Word.
What does it take to bring people to Jesus? Andrew, one of the very first followers of Jesus, shows that it’s not as complicated as we so often make it. In this sermon, we look at three things it takes to bring people to the Lord.
We have come to the end of Matthew. Many times in this study we have noted that one of the big themes of this book is that Jesus is the King. Hence the series title – “The Greater Kingdom’s Greater King.” Jesus is the Great King – ruling not only over the Chosen People of…
A cemetery was pretty much the last place anyone expected to find an impressive display of power on that first Easter Sunday. And yet, that’s exactly what the followers of Jesus found when they went to His tomb that morning and found it empty. In this sermon, we exam how God’s Resurrection Power changes our…
“Jesus died on the cross, and on the third day God raised Him from the dead.” This is the core of Christianity. But sometimes we forget that something important happened between those two great events. According to all four Gospels, between His death and resurrection, Jesus was buried in a tomb. In this sermon, we…
If you travel to Jerusalem, you can visit at least two locations that purport to be the site where Jesus was crucified. They both have a pretty good claim, and they are both fascinating sites to see. But the truth is, the location where Jesus died is far less important than the reason Jesus died.…
Just a few hours before Jesus was crucified, one of his disciples asked Him to show them the Father (John 14:8). Jesus answered by saying, “If you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the Father.” His point was that Jesus and the Father are one, and so to see God the Son is to see God the…
The trial of Jesus moves now from the Jewish Sanhedrin to the Palace of the Roman Governor. This is no accident of history but is rather a theological necessity. God wants us to see that no single person or group or ethnicity is responsible for the death of Jesus. Instead the whole human race is…