Remsen Bible Fellowship Sermons

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Remsen Bible Fellowship; 01/08/2022 Introduction Imagine with me, for a moment, a single leaf of Romaine lettuce. The seed was planted in late April, and in the cool temperatures of April and early May the plant thrived. Long hours of sunlight without the scorching heat; regular doses of water. This is exactly what a head of Romaine needs to thrive. But then, come late May, the temperatures starte...

Remsen Bible Fellowship; 06/25/2023 Introduction One of the most interesting descriptions of God, in my view, is the one given by the apostle Paul in Romans 15:13: “the God of hope.” Do you think of God - God the Father, God the Creator, God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ - as the God of hope ?  Earlier in our series I gave the following definition of hope: “hope is a settled conviction of th...

Remsen Bible Fellowship, 06/18/2023 Introduction Our text for this morning comes from the letter to the Hebrews. This letter, as a whole, has one major theme: Jesus is better. He’s better than angels, he’s better than Moses, he’s better than the priesthood of Aaron, he’s better than the multitude of sacrifices offered in the past. There is nothing that compares with him. There’s no one who can com...

Photo by Jametlene Reskp on Unsplash Remsen Bible Fellowship, 06/11/2023 Introduction Last week we began a short summer series on the topic of biblical hope. What is hope, and why does it matter for your life as a Christian? To answer the first part of the question: hope is a settled conviction of the future fulfillment of the promises of God. Faith is the action of the will whereby you decide to...

Photo by Alex Shute on Unsplash Introduction: Philosophy as a subject gets a pretty bad wrap in our society. We think of philosophers as those who argue about absolutely meaningless questions, or who perhaps are busy wrangling complicated explanations for how to explain things like meaning or existence without accounting for the presence and reality of God. But the term philosophy is simply a comp...

Sin and its Consequences 1 Samuel 31, Remsen Bible Fellowship, 05/30/2021 Introduction: As we come to the end of 1 Samuel, we need to recognize the ground we’ve covered. This book chronicles for us the transition of Israel from being a nation led by a series of God-appointed judges to becoming a monarchy like all the other nations. In the early pages of the book the nation is an absolute wreck wit...

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Preach to Yourself 1 Samuel 27:1-28:2, 29:1-30:31, Remsen Bible Fellowship, 05/16/2021 Intro: In the book of 1 Kings, chapter 18, we read one of the most famous showdowns in all of history. Elijah climbs to the top of Mt. Carmel and builds an altar to Yahweh. In the other corner of the ring stand 450 prophets of Baal. And Elijah issues a challenge: let’s see who has the real God. Prepare a sacrifi...

Four Characteristics of Godly Faith 1 Samuel 26, Remsen Bible Fellowship, 05/02/2021 Introduction, v1-5 There is a lot of talk in our times about the secularizing of our culture. Much hay has been made of the rise of the “nones”, those whose religious preference is nothing in particular. Not Christian, not Jewish, not Muslim or Mormon or Hindu, etc. Just, “none.” However, as scary as that may soun...

Preserving Providence 1 Samuel 25, Remsen Bible Fellowship, 04/25/2021 Introduction: That great late 20th century theologian, Garth Brooks, sings in one of his songs that, “some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.” And while I don’t generally recommend heading to the country station on the radio, or any part of the iTunes music store, for developing your theology, there is a lot of tru...

Love Your Enemies 1 Samuel 24, Remsen Bible Fellowship, 03/28/2021 Introduction You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjus...

Three Features of God-Sheltered Life 1 Samuel 23, Remsen Bible Fellowship, 03/21/2021 Introduction We live in a world preoccupied with the notion of power. Who has power? Who has been deprived of power? Who is using their power to harm others? Whose power is on the rise? And lest we go decrying the modern world and all its evils, the Bible confronts us with much the same picture of humanity that w...

Taste and See Psalm 34, 03/07/2021, Remsen Bible Fellowship Happy Siesta Nursing Home, 08/31/2022 Introduction: In his poem, “Prayer”, the Anglican Poet Geroge Herbert gives some 28 descriptions of what prayer is. One of the most memorable of these descriptions is “the soul in paraphrase.” In turning to God in prayer, if we are open and honest with him, we are in a sense paraphrasing those things...

Taking Refuge 1 Samuel 22; Remsen Bible Fellowship; 03/14/2021  Introduction The world we live in is not safe. Ever since the entry of sin into the world in Genesis chapter three, the human experience has been characterized by suffering, pain, and ultimately death. We might think that as Christians we are granted some sort of stay or exception in this order of the world, which is precisely the off...

When You Are Afraid 1 Samuel 21:10-15, Psalm 56, 02/28/2021, Remsen Bible Fellowship Introduction What do you do when you’re afraid? Is there a more practical question we could ask? How many of you have felt fear, dread, uneasiness, or anxiety in the past year? Month? Day? Hour? Maybe the fact that we’re talking it about brings those feelings to mind even as we speak. If we have those feelings, an...

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Better Than Sacrifice 1 Samuel 13-15; Remsen Bible Fellowship; Introduction We often think about the Bible as a book of dos and don’ts, a collection of rules for moral living, and perhaps somewhere to look for examples on how to live. What I tried to argue in my sermons for the last two plus years, first in our bible study and now as a church, is that what we actually have in the Bible is one comp...

A Man in the Gap 1 Samuel 12:19-25, Remsen Bible Fellowship, 12/06/2020 Introduction: And all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.” And Samuel said to the people, “Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve t...

Remember 1 Samuel 12, Remsen Bible Fellowship, 11/29/2020 Introduction: One of the great dangers for the church of the Lord Jesus Christ is forgetting who we are. We can fall prey to viewing the church as merely a social organization to which we belong. Perhaps you see the church as a convenient social activity, a nice occasional add on to your consumer life. It’s a place you go to get a shot of J...