Sermons from April 2017

How Solid is Your Foundation?”

Matthew 7:24-27 The Wise and Foolish Builders 24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it…

The Panic Room

John 20:19-31 Jesus Appears to His Disciples 19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and side.…

Declaring War on ‘I Can’t’

Philippians 4:13 13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength. Dear Friends in Christ, Today is the day that we Christians declare war on a disease that has attacked each one of us more times than we care to remember, a disease that has paralyzed our passions, played havoc with our hopes,…

What Will You Bring to the Cross?

GOOD FRIDAY TENEBRAE SERVICE   INTRODUCTION:  Good evening and welcome to our annual Good Friday Tenebrae Service – a service of shadows; a service of impending and increasing darkness.  I’d like to begin our service this evening in a way that I don’t usually begin one of these services.  I want to read a brief…

The Shouts of the Crowd

Matthew 27:15-25 15 Now it was the governor’s custom at the festival to release a prisonerchosen by the crowd. 16 At that time they had a well-known prisoner whose name was Jesus[a] Barabbas. 17 So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, “Which one do you want me to release to you: Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who…

How God Uses Bad for Good

Isaiah 55:8-9 8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,     neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. 9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,     so are my ways higher than your ways     and my thoughts than your thoughts. Dear Friends in Christ, Some of you long-time members of this congregation may find this…