Sermons on Trust
Much of our time today will be spent considering the kind of man that Zacchaeus was, according to what we see here in these verses; but I don’t want us to examine Zacchaeus and miss the more important point of this text. What is that point? That point is found in verse 10—the Son of…
We turn our attention back to the Gospel of Luke this morning. We will be focusing our attention on the last few verses of chapter 18. As we consider this encounter between the blind man named Bartimaeus and Jesus of Nazareth, there are a few important things that we are going to notice. First, we’ll…
We’ll be returning to Luke 18, this morning—looking at verses 18-30. In this passage, Jesus says that God is the only one who is good. And in the Scripture—specifically in the Book of Psalms—the Bible tells us over and over again that the Lord, He is good! Only God is good, and we aren’t God.…
This morning, we will be thinking about the topic of “Our Dependency when Trusting in God” and see how Jesus utilized children as an object lesson for His followers to understand what was necessary to enter the kingdom of God. Now, this incident carries on with the theme of humility and lowliness that we saw…
When we talk about the prayer of forbearance, we are talking about prayer that is characterized by patience, endurance, and long-suffering (or another way to think about it is would be “suffering long”). In your community groups this past week, you talked about some of the reasons why God does not answer prayer as quickly…
As we enter into the New Year, many people are making New Year’s Resolutions with the hopes of improving their lives. Some resolutions are grandiose and unrealistic while others are more practical and feasible. But what if there was a resolution that was guaranteed to succeed? Wouldn’t that be worth your time? Listen in as Pastor David shares what the Bible has to say about the kind of resolution that lasts.
People today are fanatics when it comes to their favorite school or sports teams. This fanaticism has been engrained in them since birth! This is the kind of commitment that we ought to have for Christ, but many parents never take the time to instill a biblical worldview in their children. God’s desire is that the Bible be implanted in the hearts of His children. He wants our basic life assumptions to find their foundation in Holy Scripture. He wants His Word to “be on your heart.”
Science and the Bible–can the two coexist? Modern society considers science and faith to be dichotomous (opposed to one another or entirely different). When speaking of science, people talk about “thinking, evidence and rational justification of facts.” On the other hand, people consider faith to be all about “evading evidence and clinging to non-rationality.” Is it possible that the secularists are wrong and that a Christian worldview isn’t less rational but actually more rational?
Four events occurred in a dramatic succession on that Easter weekend: The Upper Room, The Garden, The Crucifixion, The Resurrection of Jesus. Let’s look at each of those events and their implications.
Mary is not the only one who found favor, or grace, with God. Each one of us has received God’s grace through Jesus Christ.