Tag: believe

May the Lord spare you an untested faith

May the Lord spare you an untested faith (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Genesis 22:1-14
June 29, 2014

Some time later God tested Abraham …

God tested Abraham?  Why?  Hasn’t he been tested enough already?

Asked to leave home, family, everything that was familiar, to go to a new land that God would show him …

Made a promise of many descendants, but waiting and waiting, waiting until he was a very old man before Isaac, the son of the promise, was born …

Already having to give up one son, already losing Ishmael …

Why test Abraham again?… Continue reading ...

He is coming

He is coming (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Jeremiah 33:14-16
November 29, 2015

Once upon a time …

That’s how all the good stories begin!  Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there lived …

… a dragon, a big bad wolf, a jealous queen, a wicked step-mother,

… a pale-skinned princess, a boy made of wood, a homely duckling, a girl with a red cape,

… a woodsman with a axe, a puppeteer, a jester playing a flute, an old man spinning straw, a fairy godmother with a wand, a half-dozen or so dwarves with pickaxes and shovels,

… and you! … Continue reading ...

Seeing is believing

Seeing is believing (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
John 1:1-18
January 3, 2016

Seeing is believing.  But what if you can’t see?

Doubt, fear, depression, despair, anger, boredom overshadow our spirits.  We are in the dark and we can’t see.  And because we can’t see, we do not believe, and because we do not believe, we are not saved. … Continue reading ...

Peace is believing

Peace is … believing (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Isaiah 7:10-16
December 18, 2016

This is what disturbs me …

We talk about peace.  We sing about peace.  We pray for peace.  We tell the stories of the birth of the Prince of Peace, and we repeat the promise sung by the angels to herald his birth: “Glory to God in the highest heaven and peace on earth.”… Continue reading ...