Introduction: This part of the Christmas story is not a stand-alone story. In the narrative, we find a type of how all the rulers of this world will eventually come to kiss the Son. The natal Advent ...
The Wise Men and the Nations
A Star Out of Jacob
Introduction: One of the most familiar elements of the Christmas story is the star of Bethlehem. But at the same time, it remains one of the most unknown features of the story—because unlike what the wise men did, we don’t really look straight at it. The Text: “I shall see him, but not now: I …
Born to Die
Sermon Video Introduction: As we continue meditating on the meaning of Advent, we are not really resisting attempts to make Christmas meaningless so much as we are fighting with alternative meanings. ...
A Christmas Sunrise
Sermon Video Introduction: And the evening and the morning were the eighth day. We should not be surprised at the pattern of darkness and then light, a pattern which we see not only in the creation ...
A Deuteronomic Thanksgiving
I trust that you will not take it amiss if I wish you and yours a very full and complete Thanksgiving. If drowsiness is caused by tryptophan, which it might not be, may your turkey be unusually full of it, and may your nap be most pleasant. These good wishes include both my enemies and …
To Glorify Christ
Pentecost Sunday 2024: Sermon Video Introduction: The Holy Spirit has been active in the world since the creation of the world. He appears in the second verse of the Bible, for example, hovering ...
Blasphemous and Absurd
Ascension Sunday 2024 Sermon Video Introduction: What we must learn how to stop doing is the bad habit of dividing the world up into separate compartments. Every aspect of our being—emotional, ...
Our Gibbeted Christ
Sermon Video Ever since our rebellion against God in the Garden, the human race has been locked up in the chains of fear, guilt, and shame. We were promised one thing, and we have received another. ...
Stand Still and See His Salvation
Palm Sunday 2024: Sermon Video Introduction: One of the things that happened in the medieval period was that the church calendar began to get cluttered up with numerous saints’ days and celebrations, ...
Why We Worship on Sunday
Sermon Video Introduction: With a handful of exceptions, Christians are overwhelmingly united in their willingness to worship God on the first day of the week. After all, we have been doing this ...