Tag: sanctification
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God Doesn’t Answer All Prayer?
This will be part two of this sermon. If you didn’t catch part one, please go back and review it because the previous sermon provides some necessary context for the current discussion we are led to by this part of the story. To summarize: God has chosen Saul for service as king. The Holy Spirit…
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Didache- We Cannot Overcome Sin Or Be Convinced Sin is Wrong
Didache 5 In these two chapters, we see what is described as the way of death and the conclusion of the Didache’s first part. Of first importance is the wording used to define the way of death. Like the way of life, the way of (represented by the Greek, δε) death is not the way…
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Is Change Part of God’s Plan?
Last year at this time I was at a church preaching. It was my first Sunday preaching at the church that would become my home. The Church at Sunsites really has become a home for Kati, Elijah, and me. This group of people looking for a preacher has become part of our family and has…
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Barnabas Supported False Teaching Before Becoming God’s Missionary
Last week we read of Peter’s many insufficiencies and sins against God, things that gave him every reason not to be in ministry. We saw the one reason Peter should have been in ministry- the name of Jesus Christ. In Galatians 2, we see that Peter was not the only preacher who struggled against sin…
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God’s Self-Revelation
Last week, we spent our time talking about what it meant that Samuel was being established as the first Old Testament prophet. We also talked about the purpose that the Old Testament prophetic office had in redemptive history as Christ’s throne within His creation was prepared. The text for this morning sounds very familiar. That’s…
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Hunger for the Explicit Word
Submit your questions using the contact form, on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or LinkedIn. In the sermon this last Sunday, we observed how the Bible describes and prescribes prophecy so that we know what Samuel is being ordained for as we walk through the narrative. During the course of the sermon, I made a statement that…
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Why Did God Make Me This Way?
Have you ever wondered why God created you in the condition that He did? Have you ever wondered why God gave you the personality type that He did, why you are not as academic as you’d like to be, why you have the body type that you do, why you are not as athletic as…
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The Reality of Our Future Resurrection
As we conclude our current series walking through our belief statements at our local church, we must declare our stance on the reality of the resurrection. Perhaps one of the most hotly debated topics in theology is the end times, partly because we don’t have much information and partly because over the years people have…
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Church Services Declare the Gospel, or they don’t…
When I got my compound bow, I took it to the range, loaded an arrow, attached my trigger, drew back the string, looked through the fluorescent sights, and lined up the target. Moving my shoulder blade back to get the smoothest shot possible, my finger tapped the trigger without bending and the arrow flew through…
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God’s Process in My Brokenness
On Friday there was yet another school shooting. There were ten people who lost their lives and more who were wounded. We ought to lift up the victims and their families in prayer. Our thoughts are with them. My heart breaks when we hear about things like this happening in the world. We always ask…