Passage: Ephesians 2:14-18 Everyone knows what it means to feel alienation, perhaps from a once close friend or even from a family member. Alienation is descriptive of the human condition since the fall, between races, ethnic groups, economic classes, and the like. But the greatest alienation we have suffered is from God, as the fellowship […]
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But God – The Sequel
Passage: Ephesians 2:11-13 After a break for Advent, we return to our sermon series in Paul’s letter to the Ephesian church. This morning, we will take the first look at one of the most compelling passages on what the church should look like in all the New Testament. Paul takes a similar approach to that […]
Joseph’s Adopted Son
Passage: Matthew 1:18-25 Joseph may be the one person in the story of Jesus’ birth that folks are most likely to forget about or ignore. He isn’t even mentioned in the carol we have been using as our devotional piece for Advent, “What Child is This?”. But like each of the other people mentioned in […]
Mary’s Boy Child
Passage: Luke 1:26-38 Continuing in our Advent sermon series entitled What Child is This?, we come to one of the most important characters in the Christmas story – Mary, the mother of Jesus. We can make two mistakes when it comes to Mary: we can make her out to be more than she was or […]
The God-King
Passage: Matthew 2:1-12 This morning, we continue in our Advent sermon series entitled What Child is This? Our goal is to consider the true identity of the baby born in the manger that Christmas night so many years ago. Today, we look at the wise men who traveled great distances to see and worship the […]
The Good Shepherd
Passage: Luke 2:8-20 For the next month, we will be celebrating the season of Advent, a time for us to consider the significance of Jesus’ first coming and for us to prepare our hearts for his return. This year, we will use the beloved Christmas carol, What Child is This?, as a way to focus […]
God’s Workmanship
Passage: Ephesians 2:10 Paul has spent a great deal of time speaking negatively of the role of works in our salvation. Now, in verse 10, we have a major shift. Works are now mentioned positively, as the very reason God saved us. To paraphrase Paul, we were not saved by works but we were saved […]
The Good News: But God!
Passage: Ephesians 2:4-7 Having set forth the bad news of humanity’s condition without Christ, Paul now begins to rise in praise as he proclaims the good news of what God has done to save us in and through Christ. These are possibly the two best words in all of scripture: But God! Our hopeless condition […]
The Bad News: DEAD!
Passage: Ephesians 2:1-3 We have just finished celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation and were reminded that the essence of the Reformation was the recovery of the biblical Gospel of Jesus Christ. The word gospel means good news, and it is certainly that. But before we can get to the good news, it […]
Clinging to the Gospel
Passage: Romans 1:16-17 As we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the event that commenced the Protestant Reformation this morning, it is only fitting that we focus on the passage of Scripture that God used to open Luther’s eyes to help the church recover the biblical doctrines of salvation that had been lost or distorted for […]