The Holy Spirit is present with us here, now. As we come to this Table, He is the one who makes it all efficacious. Now He is always at work, regardless of our disheveled condition. He deals with us when we come prepared as we should have been prepared, and He deals with us when …
Thunderstruck
It is our usual custom to recite the Apostles Creed at this point in the service, but several times a year we break from that custom, and recite the Nicene Creed or the Definition of Chalcedon. During Advent season, it is Chalcedon, and so there are a few things for use to consider. It would …
Advent and Abundance
Introduction: A genuine biblical faith is one that knows how to climb mountains, and how to not get lost in the valleys. In the flesh we know how to get used to what happens to us all the time. But ...
Advent and Affliction
Sermon Video Introduction: Over time, holidays take on a certain patina. Long usage and custom make this unavoidable and necessary, but it remains our responsibility not to allow such later accretions ...
Thanksgiving No Matter What
When we render our thanks to God, we are doing three things that need to be emphasized. When we consider that we are offering up our gratitude in a year when the dirty deeds have been abundant, the scoffers ...
Joseph and Sarah
In the Scriptures, the pattern of marrying and being given in marriage is a picture of normality. Sometimes it is a picture of normality on the brink of judgment, as when people were doing all their normal things just before Noah’s flood. “For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating …
Psalm 123/Obedience and Vindication
The Thirteenth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: This psalm contains a marked contrast between the eyes of faith, which look to the Lord, the God of all heaven, and the blind eyes of insolent unbelief, which see nothing as they ought to. Unbelief and pride are the chains that anchor the ungodly soul to this earth, …
Be Still, He Said
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61hYeqiUEVQ The world of men, with their wars, and their politics, and their elections, and their controversies, is a turbulent sea. The disciples of the Lord were ...
Psalm 122/Christ our Jerusalem
Sermon Video The Thirteenth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: This psalm is not exactly a pilgrimage psalm, but is more like a psalm that anticipates great rejoicing upon arriving at the destination ...
Psalm 121/Jehovah Keeps
Sermon Video The Thirteenth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: This psalm is a brief word of great encouragement. God’s providential care is true help, and it is a help that is promised to everyone ...