This is the last sermon in my four part series on Jonah. I preached it on Sunday, October 2, 2022. It might be the one I was least happy with. This is partly because it didn't come together as smoothly as the others. As a preacher you're also aware there's more to say than you're …
Continue reading Jonah #4: The Angry Prophet and Merciful God
Several weeks ago I posted some thoughts regarding the Christian view of human nature in light of the current transgender movement and our culture's increasingly confused approach to gender, sexuality, and identity. You can find that post here. There I focused on Genesis 1:27 and the foundational truth it reveals about human beings: namely, that …
Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same understanding—because the one who suffers in the flesh is finished with sin—in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for God’s will. For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the …
Continue reading Living Now with Eternity in Mind #12: Living for the Will of God
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit, in which he also went and made proclamation to the spirits in prison who in the past were disobedient, when …
Continue reading Living Now with Eternity in Mind #11: Living to be with God
How joyful is the onewhose transgression is forgiven,whose sin is covered!How joyful is a person whomthe Lord does not charge with iniquityand in whose spirit is no deceit!When I kept silent, my bones became brittlefrom my groaning all day long.For day and night your hand was heavy on me;my strength was drained[a]as in the summer’s …
Continue reading Prayer #8: Sin, Confession, and the Joy of Forgiveness
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