Sermons – Grace In the Desert

Luke Skelton, President & Director of Good News TV Sabbath Presentation, December 6, 2025

Pastor John Schachinger Sabbath Sermon November 29, 2025 2 Corinthians 3:5-6 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 5 Not that we are qualified of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our qualification is from God, 6 who has made us qualified to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit, for the […]

Revelation’s 7 Seals: “Keeping Our Faith & Sanity,” Concluded Hebrews 13:8-16 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 9 Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by regulations […]

Revelation’s 7 Seals: “Keeping Our Faith & Our Sanity,” pt 8 John 17:20-26 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 20 “I ask not only on behalf of these but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and […]

Revelation’s 7 Seals: “Without Losing Our Faith or Sanity,” pt 9 Matthew 5:43-48 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 43 “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 […]

Revelation’s 7 Seals: “Keeping Our Faith & Sanilty,” pt 6 Matthew 24:36-42 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 36 “But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 For as the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the […]

Revelation’s 7 Seals: “Keeping Our Faith & Sanity,” pt 5 John 15:8-17 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 8 My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. 10 If you keep my […]

Revelation’s 7 Seals – “Keeping Our Faith & Our Sanity,” pt 4 Acts 2:22-32 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 22 “Fellow Israelites, listen to what I have to say: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with deeds of power, wonders, and signs that God did through him among you, as […]

Ephesians 2:1-7 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2 You were dead through the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient. 3 All of us once […]

Revelation’s 7 Seals: “Keeping Our Faith & Sanity,” pt 3 Amos 8:4-12 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land, 5 saying, “When will the new moon be over so that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so […]

Revelation’s 7 Seals: “Keeping Our Faith & Sanity,” pt 2 Psalm 85:1-10 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 1 Lord, you were favorable to your land; you restored the fortunes of Jacob. 2 You forgave the iniquity of your people; you pardoned all their sin. Selah 3 You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from […]

Revelation’s 7 Seals: “Keeping Our Faith & Sanity,” pt 1 Revelation 19 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 19 After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power to our God, 2 for his judgments are true and just; he […]

Isaiah 53 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 53 Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2 For he grew up before him like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should […]

Revelation’s 7 Seals: “Keeping Our Faith & Sanity,” Introduction, pt 2 Psalm 137:1-6 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 1 By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down, and there we wept when we remembered Zion. 2 On the willows there we hung up our harps. 3 For there our captors asked us for […]

Revelation’s 7 Seals: “Keeping Our Faith & Sanity,” Introduction Matthew 24:4-14 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 4 Jesus answered them, “Beware that no one leads you astray. 5 For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah!’ and they will lead many astray. 6 And you will hear of wars and […]

“…Come Up Here..,” pt 6 Acts 1:1-9 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 1 In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and teach 2 until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. […]

“…Come Up Here..,” pt 5 Hebrews 8:1-5 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 8 Now the main point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a minister in the sanctuary and […]

“…Come Up Here..,” pt 5 1 Corinthians 15:15-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ—whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, then […]

“…Come Up Here..,” pt 3 Jeremiah 31:31-34 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 31 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I […]

“…Come Up Here..,” pt 2 Hebrews 10:8-14 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 8 When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), 9 then he added, “See, I have come to do your will.” He […]

John 6:4-11 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 4 Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near. 5 When he looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?” 6 He said this to test him, for […]

John 9:1-2 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 9 As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

Deuteronomy 4:5-8 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 5 “See, just as the Lord my God has charged me, I now teach you statutes and ordinances for you to observe in the land that you are about to enter and occupy. 6 You must observe them and perform them, for this will show your wisdom […]

“…Come Up Here..,” pt 1 Ephesians 2:1-7 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2 You were dead through the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient. […]

“Alpha to Omega & In Our Midst,” Concluded Revelation 12:5-12 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 5 And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a scepter of iron. But her child was snatched away and taken to God and to his throne, 6 and […]