Rev. Timothy J. Ensworth
Ishmael (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Genesis 16:1-16, 21:1-21
June 22, 2014
Most people come to church, I think, for one of two reasons: to find answers or to find help.
Some of us come to church to find answers. We come from a life overfilled with ambiguity and uncertainty and conflict. We want to be able to sort it all out, to make sense of it. … Continue reading ...
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 ...