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Send us Fan Mail Traditionally on the Sunday after Christmas I like to do a sermon that is New Years focused, as we look back at the year that was and look ahead to the coming year. This year, I want to share a passage from Malachi 1:6-14. Malachi was a prophet who lived around the year 450 BC. The historical context is that Israel has been conquered by the Babylonians and taken off into captivity...

Send us Fan Mail This past month, I preached on the names of the Messiah. Immanuel. Wonderful counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. The Servant of the Lord. Tonight, I thought that the most fitting way to end this series was to focus on the true name of the Messiah, Jesus. Jesus is not just any name, but has deep meaning for us and for this world. Let’s read again Matthew 1:1...

Send us Fan Mail This morning is the third week in the season of Advent, the four weeks before Christmas where we look back at the coming of Jesus and look ahead to His return. During Advent, I am preaching through some of the names given to the Messiah in the Old Testament. The Hebrew word Messiah, which is the Greek name Christos and the English word Christ, referred to the anointed king from Da...

Send us Fan Mail Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace - Dec 10, 2023. We will be looking at Isaiah 9:1-7 and what the names of the Messiah in this passage mean for our relationship with God and for the world.

Send us Fan Mail This morning begins the season of Advent, the four weeks before Christmas where we look back at the coming of Jesus and look ahead to His return. I’ve entitled my Advent sermon series “The Names of the Messiah,” and over the next four weeks, I will be looking at the various names given to Jesus, the Messiah, in the various prophecies about his coming, and what significance they ha...

Send us Fan Mail Finishing up 1 Thessalonians this morning. 1 Thessalonians was a letter written by a leader in the early church named Paul to a church in Thessalonica that he had been instrumental in starting around the year 49 AD. Paul and his fellow missionaries had been driven out of Thessalonica by a mob of angry Jews who found his message about Jesus being Lord to be blasphemous. And 2-3 yea...

Send us Fan Mail This morning, I am continuing in my sermon series through 1 Thessalonians, which was a letter written by a leader in the early church named Paul to a church in Thessalonica that he had been instrumental in starting around the year 49 AD. Paul and his fellow missionaries had been driven out of Thessalonica by a mob of angry Jews who found his message about Jesus being Lord to be bl...

Send us Fan Mail This morning, I am continuing in my sermon series through 1 Thessalonians, which was a letter written by a leader in the early church named Paul to a church in Thessalonica that he had been instrumental in starting around the year 49 AD. Paul and his fellow missionaries had been driven out of Thessalonica by a mob of angry Jews who found his message about Jesus being Lord to be bl...

Send us Fan Mail This morning, I am continuing in my sermon series through 1 Thessalonians, which was a letter written by a leader in the early church named Paul to a church in Thessalonica that he had been instrumental in starting around the year 49 AD. Paul and his fellow missionaries had been driven out of Thessalonica by a mob of angry Jews who found his message about Jesus being Lord to be bl...

Send us Fan Mail This morning, I am continuing in my sermon series through 1 Thessalonians, which was a letter written by a leader in the early church named Paul to a church in Thessalonica that he had been instrumental in starting around the year 49 AD. Paul and his fellow missionaries had been driven out of Thessalonica by a mob of angry Jews who found his message about Jesus being Lord to be bl...

Send us Fan Mail Series: 1 Thessalonians: Faith + Love + Hope  - This morning, I am continuing in my sermon series through 1 Thessalonians, which was a letter written by a leader in the early church named Paul to a church in Thessalonica that he had been instrumental in starting around the year 49 AD. Paul and his fellow missionaries had been driven out of Thessalonica by a mob of angry Jews who f...

Send us Fan Mail This morning, I am continuing in my sermon series through 1 Thessalonians, which was a letter written by a leader in the early church named Paul to a church in Thessalonica that he had been instrumental in starting around the year 49 AD. Paul and his fellow missionaries had been driven out of Thessalonica by a mob of angry Jews who found his message about Jesus being Lord to be bl...

Send us Fan Mail This morning, I am in the fifth week of a sermon series through 1 Thessalonians, which was a letter written by a leader in the early church named Paul to a church in Thessalonica that he had been instrumental in starting around the year 49 AD. Paul and his fellow missionaries had been driven out of Thessalonica by a mob of angry Jews who found his message about Jesus being Lord to...

Send us Fan Mail This morning, I am in the fourth week of a sermon series through 1 Thessalonians, which was a letter written by a leader in the early church named Paul to a church in Thessalonica that he had been instrumental in starting around the year 49 AD. Paul and his fellow missionaries had been driven out of Thessalonica by a mob of angry Jews who found his message about Jesus being Lord t...

Send us Fan Mail This morning, I am in the third week of a sermon series through 1 Thessalonians, which was a letter written by a leader in the early church named Paul to a church in Thessalonica that he had been instrumental in starting around the year 49 AD. Over the past two weeks, we looked at the message that Paul brought to the Corinthians as well as his relationship with them. The message,...

Send us Fan Mail This morning I am in the second week of my sermon series through the New Testament book known as 1 Thessalonians, which was a letter written by a leader in the early church named Paul to a church in Thessalonica that he had been instrumental in starting around the year 49 AD.   Last week we looked at chapter 1 of this 5-chapter letter, focusing on the message that Paul brought to...

Send us Fan Mail This morning I am beginning a new sermon series through the New Testament book known as 1 Thessalonians, which was a letter written by a leader in the early church named Paul to a church in Thessalonica that he had been instrumental in starting around the year 49 AD.   If you’re unfamiliar with the Bible, there is the Old and New Testament. The New Testament begins with the birth...

Send us Fan Mail We are continuing this morning in our sermon series The Power of One Life, looking each week at a minor character in the Bible and the impact they had, for better or worse, on their world. This morning I want to look at the life of a man named Bezalel in Exodus 35:30-36:7 .   The book of Exodus begins with the story of the deliverance of the Jewish people under the leadership of M...

Send us Fan Mail This morning, I am continuing in my summer sermon series “The power of one life,” looking at minor Biblical characters whose lives can be preached on in one Sunday. This morning, we’ll be looking at an unnamed blind man and his interaction with Jesus in John 9.   John 9:1-41 - As Jesus went along, he saw a man blind from birth.  2 His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned,...

Send us Fan Mail This morning, I am continuing in my summer sermon series “The power of one life,” looking at minor Biblical characters whose lives can be preached on in one Sunday. This morning, we’ll be looking at the life of a man named Uzzah, who shows up during the life of David in 2 Samuel 6 but, unfortunately for him, does not last very long. Nevertheless, his life has a lot to teach us abo...

Send us Fan Mail I am continuing this morning in my summer sermon series The Power of One Life, looking at the lives of minor Biblical characters whose lives can be preached through in one Sunday. This morning we will be looking at one of the most important of all the minor Biblical characters, a man known as John the Baptist. Each one of the gospel stories of Jesus’ life tells us about John, who...

Send us Fan Mail We are continuing this morning in our summer sermon series The Power of One Life, looking at the lives of minor Biblical characters whose lives can be preached through in one Sunday. This morning we will be looking at a man named Asaph, who appears in 45 verses in the Bible. The Bible text doesn’t tell us much about him, other than that he was a recorder, which was sort of an arch...

Send us Fan Mail This morning, I am continuing in our sermon series “The Power of One Life,” where we are looking at a different minor Biblical character every week. This week, we will look at a man named Onesimus. We first hear of him at the end of Colossians.   Colossians 4:7-9 - Tychicus will tell you all the news about me. He is a dear brother, a faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lor...

Send us Fan Mail This morning, I am continuing in my summer series, The Power of One Life, looking at minor Biblical characters and what we can learn from their lives about knowing God. This morning we’ll be in Luke 7:36-50 , looking at a nameless person who is called “a woman who had lived a sinful life.” We’ll go through the passage a little at a time.   Luke 7:36-50 - Now one of the Pharisees i...

Send us Fan Mail This morning, I am continuing in the sermon series “The power of one life,” looking at minor Biblical characters and what we learn from them about God and our relationship with Him. Today I want to look at a woman named Gomer, who is found in the book of Hosea. Hosea was a prophet, the last prophet to prophesy to the northern kingdom of Israel before it fell to the Assyrian Empire...