Stand Alone Sermon: Easter Sunday From the moment God said, “Let there be light!” until the day Jesus rose from the dead there had never been a day like this … a day when something that changed the course of human history was noticed by so few. Yet today millions of people will celebrate Jesus’ resurrection in some way. We have the…
Stand Alone Sermon: Good Friday
Stand Alone Sermon: Palm Sunday Palm Sunday celebrations have been very upbeat and joyful in past years as we head into “Holy Week,” but this year is different. It seems harder to celebrate as we look forward to what may become one of the most difficult periods of time for the world since World War II. The mere scope of the pandemic…
Stand Alone Sermon When “evil” seems to be winning, do you know who is really in control? GOD! But then, if God is in control, why does He allow evil to exist in the first place??? All of this can be quite confusing if you don’t know God and you don’t know what EVIL really is. We talk a lot about God…
We’re In This Together! None of us could have predicted the events going on all around us and in our own lives, but GOD was not caught unprepared! Many people have been repeating the title of our sermon series over the past week or more: “We’re in this together!” That’s true for the entire human race, as everyone is affected in one…
We’re In This Together! People all around us are seemingly in a panic. What about you? How should we react to the events going on in the world and in our nation? While there is apparently a new virus that can and has and will cause sickness and even death to some, many of us have endured greater threats and larger crises…
We’re In This Together! “How many churches do you have in your town?” In our nation that is a common question for those moving into a new community. The answer, of course, usually includes all of the locations where Christians meet to worship and to engage in various religious activities. Few cities in the United States, even small ones, have only one…
We’re In This Together! “God has promised to give you the desires of your heart!” … so people quote a phrase from Psalm 37:4. But is that really what it says? It seems a little bit like giving someone a blank check, signed by God! We all know that even as believers we often desire things that would not be good for…
We’re In This Together! The sinful human nature does not like being told that it CAN’T do something!! If you tell people they can’t do something they will try everything in their power to do it. Such is the case with spiritual life. Many today are aware of their need and desire for something more than a merely physical life. You live ……
We’re In This Together! An old hymn has a line that reads, “Prone to wander, Lord I feel it; prone to leave the God I love.” Those words express the reality of the human condition as long as we live in this world. As the Spirit of God works in us through God’s Word, we “grow” and those times of “wandering” growing…