Sermons on Lent (Page 2)

“Blood Money: King Asa”

2 Chronicles 14:1-7; 16:1-13             {Prayer}             “Finish strong! Don’t quit! Don’t give up!” Those words ring loud and clear in the ears of any athlete, of any runner especially. I used to hear those words when I was lifting weights in high school and when I was doing cross training workouts back in Nebraska.…

“Mercy in Temptation”

1 Corinthians 10:6-13             {Prayer}             One of the most prevalent causes of automobile accidents is that of distracted drivers. Distractions occur when a driver takes their eyes off the road to look at something else. It could be the deer in the field, it could be the person sitting next to you, it could…

“Mercy in Ashes”

Joel 2:12-13             {Prayer}             In our more contemporary society, we don’t really encounter ashes. We live in a culture which sanitizes pretty much everything. Anything unsightly, like ashes, have been removed from view. At one time, vehicles use to come with ash trays and cigarette lighters, but now there is a USB port and…

“Coming in Humility”

John 12:12-19 {Prayer}             Re-enactments.  Re-enactments are a popular thing which allow people to observe, to recapture the moment, the experience an event from the past.  Walk into Silver Dollar City in Branson and you are taken back to the olden days of blacksmiths, horse and buggy, saloons and other frontier living conditions. Visit Gettysburg,…

“The Trial: A Place of God’s Will”

Luke 22:63-23:25 {Prayer}             We live in a world of trials.  Turn on the television and, frequently, some major trial is underway.  We’ve had O.J. Simpson, Timothy McVeigh, the Unabomber, Kobe Bryant, Scott Peterson, Michael Jackson, Saddam Hussein … you can almost chronicle the passage of time by watching the major cases and trials on…

“Malchus”

John 18:1-11 {Prayer}             January 17, 2004 … that is when a sixty-six-ton sperm whale died and was beached on the southwestern coast of Taiwan.  Two weeks later, authorities decided to truck the dead whale to a lab where they could do an autopsy.  It took fifty men and three lifting cranes a total of…