Remsen Bible Fellowship Sermons

Introduction Twenty-two years ago tomorrow, nearly three thousand Americans died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Americans, and people the world over, were left wondering: where is God in all of this? Is God real? Does he have a plan? Why is there so much evil in the world? Today, we continue to ask the same question. Where is God, and why does he allow all of this evil? Racial ideologies pit count...

Mark chapter 7, I just want to begin by reading our text, verses 24 through 30. And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden. But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by...

Introduction Are there “good” foods and “bad” foods? Can we heap condemnation upon ourselves by virtue of the foods and substances we ingest? This is an important question; because we live in a society that on the one hand tells us that we shouldn’t judge others, and on the other hand heaps up messages of judgment - often related to this very subject. Is it organic? Sustainably produced? Can you p...

Mark chapter 6, as we continue on through the life of Jesus, through the lens of Mark's gospel. Last week, we looked at the feeding of the 5,000. And I want you, as we start here this morning, to imagine yourself in the place specifically of Peter. They started off that day exhausted. They had gone on this mission trip, as it were, into the cities and the villages around Galilee, proclaiming the g...

Mark chapter 6, last week we looked at verses 14-29 and we saw the dangers of weakness, the dangers of sinful weakness in the life of King Herod, weakness that stemmed from his sinful nature and then sins and weaknesses that were compounded and fed by his sinful choices, his sinful actions. His lust led to the degradation of his stepdaughter, then led to him making a foolish promise, and then his...

Introduction Weakness is big business. In the year of our Lord, 2023, in a time when everything in society is cast in terms of power and power struggles, showing off your weakness is much to your advantage. Of course we don’t use the language of weakness. We use the language of oppression, struggle, and disadvantage. If you can show that you sit at the intersection of multiple oppressed groups the...

Introduction How would you describe your hometown? Was it a place filled with warmth, love, and community spirit? Or maybe it was more individualistic, where people just did their own thing and left each other alone. Some of that depends on regional differences, sometimes there are differences based on population density (whether you grew up in the city, a smallish town, or a really small town/rur...

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Introduction One statement I’ve heard on numerous occasions, whether in the context of casual conversation or even when watching a formal debate, is that if God wanted to make himself obvious he surely could. The fact that he doesn’t show up the way Jesus “supposedly” did in the times of the gospel writers just proves that the whole thing is made up - or at least not substantial enough to be trust...

[AI Generated Transcript] Well, if you want to take your Bibles and turn, we're going to be in Mark chapter 4. I'm thankful for Michael coming last week to share the word, and I was so thankful for all those guys who would take time out of their busy lives to come pour into us. Mark chapter 4, I'm going to read verses 26 to 34. Jesus speaking, and he said, The kingdom of God is as if a man should...

[AI Generated transcript] If you want to take your Bibles and turn, we're going to be in Mark 4. It's a pretty short text this morning, and with communion it'll probably be a shorter than normal sermon. Just so you're not surprised at the end, I'm not trying to get your hopes up too high about a short sermon. James chapter 1, beginning in verse 19. You can turn to Mark 4, but I'm going to begin by...

[AI Generated Transcript] Mark chapter 4, beginning in verse 1. Actually, I'm just going to read verse 1 to start with. It says, And he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea. And the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. So as we open up Mark chapter 4, we see a really familiar setting. Jesus is once agai...

Introduction This is a text about families. You can see this by observing the structure of the passage. In verses 20-35 we have what is called, in technical terms, a sandwich. In verses 20-21 we see reference to Jesus’ family, and the camera will pan to them again in verses 31-35. So that structural clue tips us off to the overall point of what lies between. In verse 20 we read that Jesus is home...

[AI Generated Transcript] You want to take your Bible and turn to Mark chapter 3. Normally I break and do something different on Easter, but I want to keep going to Mark today. I think it's applicable. So that's what we're going to do. We're going to look at Mark. He is risen. He is risen indeed. Let's try it again. He is risen. He is risen indeed. Amen. That's not a meaningless platitude. That's...

[AI Generated transcript] Mark chapter 2 beginning in verse 23 and we'll go through chapter 3 verse 6. I'm going to read the text here as we start. This is one Sabbath. He was going through the grain fields and as they made their way, the disciples began to pluck heads of grain. And the Pharisees were saying to him, look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath? And he said to them, h...

[unedited transcript generated by AI] If you want to turn to Mark chapter 2, we aren't going to spend a ton of time in the sermon portion of the service this morning, but I do want to look at Mark 2 and our text is going to be verses 13-22. And we're going to see two questions that are asked in this text, and they might at first seem unrelated. The two questions are, why did Jesus ate with the peo...

[unedited transcript generated by Substack AI] If you want to take your Bibles and turn, we're going to be back in Mark Chapter 2. I shouldn't say back in Mark Chapter 2, proceeding into Mark Chapter 2. When you're sick, you've got two basic needs. Number one, you need a good diagnosis. If you don't have a good diagnosis, you're never going to get well. I mean, I'm sure either you've experienced o...

[this transcript created with AI - apologies for any errors] If you want to take your Bibles and turn, we're back in Mark, Mark chapter 1. And the title of this sermon is Why Pray? I practiced it on LBC a couple of weeks ago, so hopefully it's better today. That question, why pray? is one I've thought a lot about in my life. Like, why does it even make sense to pray? If we believe in a God who kno...

[This Transcript generated with AI - my apologies for any errors] Mark chapter 1. I was listening last night to a Bob Dylan song. And Bob Dylan, only songwriter to my knowledge, who has won the Nobel Prize for literature, doesn't have a great voice to listen to, but the songs are often interesting. And the particular song that I was listening to was Gotta Serve Somebody. And that song runs through...

Introduction Every Sunday, in the Lord’s prayer, we pray, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” What are we asking for in that prayer? What is the kingdom of God? That question is at the heart of our text this morning. 14 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, 15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is...

Introduction You’re in the wilderness of Judea, around the year 28. You’ve come down to the river Jordan to see this hellfire and brimstone preacher, the one dressed in camel’s hair who eats locusts and honey. He’s calling the religious leaders vipers (a sentiment you happen to agree with), and saying that even Jews need to repent of their sinful filthiness - almost like they were the same as Gent...

Introduction Imagine you’re a Christian in the city of Rome, the year is about 55AD. You’ve heard stories of Jesus, you’ve heard about and believed the message concerning the forgiveness of sins; a forgiveness given freely to all who trust in Jesus as the perfect Son of God who died in the place of sinners, and who rose again triumphant over death. But while this gospel preaching has reached your...

Remsen Bible Fellowship, Easter 2020 Why does the resurrection of Jesus matter? Why, year after year, decade after decade, century after century, for two millennia have people celebrated Jesus’ rising from the dead?  We face no fiercer or more menacing foe than death. It looms over us all, waiting to swallow us. Proverbs 27:20 tells us that Sheol and Abaddon [the grave and death] are never satisfi...

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Remsen Bible Fellowship, 10/25/2020 Introduction: But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until the full day. Proverbs 4:18 In verses 14-19 of Proverbs 4, the Sage is giving his son warnings about the path of the wicked. The wicked, cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble. Where doe...