All Souls Presbyterian Church

The book of Isaiah is interjected with several “servant songs,” passages that paint a picture of God’s chosen servant who will come to the aid of his people. They show us that this servant will judge rightly as the true king, will be a true prophet to guide God’s people, and a true priest who will cleanse the people of their sins. This servant who brings true restoration to the covenant people is...

Though the name “Jesus” doesn't appear in the Bible until the New Testament, the gospel message can be found throughout all of Scripture. In Genesis 3, God gives us an initial impression of how he is working to save his people and to save humanity. Though this first revelation of the gospel is vague and indistinct, viewing it through the lens of the rest of Scripture helps us to better understand...

Every one of us faces troubles of one kind or another. Troubles from without, troubles from within. Bodily illness, mental illness, emotionalturmoil, relationship strife, vocational stress, financial uncertainty, international discord... Parents and children, husbands and wives, employers and employees——everyone’s lives are touched by troubles. But how do we face this suffering? Listen as Pastor L...

Where are you at spiritually? Perhaps you are someone who struggles to believe the doctrines of Christianity. Something is standing in your way——but what? What’s stopping you from believing the claims of Christ? In today’s sermon text from John 12 we find three barriers/obstacles/hindrances to belief: confusion (“I just don't understand”), arrogance (“I know better”), and apathy (“Who cares?”). Li...

Repentance is the secret, often forgotten power of the Christian life. It is one of the primary tools the Holy Spirit uses in our lives to bring about spiritual growth and change. It is not something you do once and then put it aside, but it’s a daily part of Christian life and a secret power of daily growth in grace. Listen as Pastor Luke Herche preaches on 2 Corinthians 7:5–13a, breaking down th...

Where does your confidence lie? You have to put your confidence in something. Everybody does. We put our confidence in things that make us feel worthwhile, important, right, blameless, because in our hearts and in the heart of every person there is a longing for righteousness. In Philippians 3:4–7 Paul shows this pattern working out in his own life through one of the most interesting self-disclosu...

In John 12:20, Jesus says that the hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. But what does it mean to be glorified? Why is it so important? In this sermon on John 12:20–33, Pastor Luke Herche preaches on the glory of Jesus Christ, showing us the time of Jesus’ glorification, the method of Jesus’ glorification, the purpose of Jesus’ glorification, the fruit of Jesus’ glorification, and the...

Who is Jesus? People have all kinds of different ideas about him, often whatever best supports their own agendas—everything from an enlightenment thinker to a civil rights protester to a present-day hipster. Everyone wants to remake Jesus in their own image. But all of these distorted versions of Jesus leave people confused about who he really is. In John 12, we find a diverse crowd of people inte...

What has your attention? What has your love? Your loyalty? Your enthusiasm? What are you devoted to? What is the object of your lavish devotion? There may be many answers to these questions, but in the end there are only two real options: devotion to Christ or devotion to self. This is the dichotomy presented by Mary and Judas in John 12:1–8, in which Mary anoints Jesus’ feet with an expensive per...

We live in a confusing time. Deception is rampant. It is hard to discern truth from error. And this is not just true in our time. Deception is an enemy as old as the Garden. In the book of Philippians Paul ties joy and truth and salvation together, helping us to clearly see through the lens of the gospel and of scripture who we are and how we should understand the world. Listen as Pastor Josué Per...

In the book of 2 Timothy, the Apostle Paul writes to Timothy to encourage the young pastor in his pastoral work. By this time, Paul had been living——and suffering——for the gospel for thirty years, and with his impending death looming he wants to pass the baton on to his protégé. Listen as Pastor Luke Herche preaches from 2 Timothy 4:1–8 on the occasion of the ordination and installation of Josué P...

Joy is one of the main themes of Paul’s letter to the Philippians—and one of the main themes in all of Scripture. As we examine the first verse of Philippians chapter 3, in which Paul exhorts his brothers and sisters at Philippi to “rejoice in the Lord,” we begin to understand that Christians are a people of joy in Jesus Christ. Listen as Pastor Josué Pernillo expands on this theme in three moveme...

What gets in the way of you seeing Jesus for who he really is? Some people think that if they could only see Jesus and his miracles for themselves, then they would believe. But the truth is that ‘seeing’ is not the answer, and more facts don’t lead to more faith. We already have plenty of evidence—the heavens themselves declare the glory of God! So if seeing isn’t the answer, what is? Listen as Pa...

When was the last time you were moved emotionally? Maybe you cheered at a touchdown or cried at a heroic gesture. Many things in life move us to weep or to shout for joy—but what about the gospel? Have we heard the incredible stories in God’s Word so many times that they have become mundane to us? Or is it that we are more interested in finding life and fulfillment in this age, rather than looking...

Alfred Lord Tennyson famously wrote, “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” Whether you agree or disagree with this saying, it does reveal something true: sometimes pain is better than no pain. And sometimes love is the cause of that pain. In John 11, Jesus’ ministry comes to a climax of sorts with the raising of Lazarus from the dead, and through this account we can...

The hope of the Christian presented in 2 Corinthians 4:13–18 is not a vague or abstract hope—it’s real. And because it’s real it meets us in our very real needs. Our sin curves us inward on ourselves and makes us selfish and idolatrous, seeking satisfaction everywhere but in Christ. But the good news is that through the gospel God has provided for us a hope that meets us in these needs. Our isolat...

Terrorist attacks, natural disasters, sickness, disease, and war. The possibility that things could fall apart at any moment makes us feel afraid. Or maybe it’s the little things in life, the things that you imagine you can control, that make you anxious. Whether you are afraid of the big things or the little—or if you are living in blissful ignorance of it all—hear the message of our text this mo...

As you read through the scriptures you often find this tension: when there was no king in Israel, everyone did what was right in their own eyes; when there were kings, the kings were corrupt. No one in charge led to anarchy; kings and rulers led to an abuse of power. But in Ezekiel 34, God’s promised solution is both that he would be the shepherd of his sheep and that he would set up a ruler in th...

In John chapter 9 Jesus accuses the Pharisees of not being able to see what is right in front of their faces, and he says, because of that, their guilt remains. Unlike the physically vision-impaired, these religious leaders are blind to their own blindness--which is about as blind as you can be!--and they are culpable for it. Listen as Pastor Luke Herche preaches on this passage, showing us four t...

Why? It’s a question we ask often, in response to national tragedies, global pandemics, brutal racism, personal devastation. Why me? Why now? Why this? We want answers. And answers, more often than not, mean determining blame. In John 9:1–7, the disciples ask Jesus a question: “Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” They want to know why. They want to know who to blame. Jesu...

God has quite a lot to say about worry and anxiety, and in Matthew 6:24–34 we find one of the most well-known Biblical passages on the subject. Listen as church elder Todd Doehring teaches through this passage that you cannot serve both God and worry; when we worry, we overlook God’s care for his creation; and only when we put God first can we be sure of anything. From Sunday Worship, August 6, 20...

The first two chapters of Philippians are filled with beautiful and lofty truths about who Jesus is and how he impacts the world. But at the end of Philippians chapter 2, Paul comes down to some real and practical implications of these truths, seen through the examples of Timothy and Epaphroditus. Listen as Josué Pernillo preaches on Philippians 2:19–30, helping us to see that the gospel allows us...

Who is worthy to come to the king’s table? In 2 Samuel 9, we find a seemingly small moment: King David shows kindness to Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan and grandson of Saul. But in this story of a faithful king and a dinner we catch a glimpse of something more profound. Listen as Josué Pernillo preaches on this passage, showing that because of the king’s faithfulness the messy can come to the k...

You might be tempted to hear the opening words of Ephesians and think of them as a perfunctory greeting: Paul is just explaining who he is and who he is writing to. But these words contain far more than a mere greeting. In them we find the gospel being presented to us, the beginning and the end of the Christian life being put on display. Listen as RUF campus minister Ethan Brown takes a closer loo...

The apostle John wrote his gospel so that readers may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and, by believing, have life in his name. This makes the question of who Jesus is very important––even a matter of life and death. So what makes Jesus different? What makes him different from the teachers and founders and philosophers of other great religions of the world? What makes him even gr...