Category: <span>Sermons</span>

Our study of this passage of Scripture has been building toward reconciliation. We have seen that the very beginning of this process is the understanding that Jesus died for all. Jesus didn’t die for you or for me. Jesus didn’t die for those that have believed or even those that will believe. Paul wrote that...

In Philippians 3 Paul said that he was “forgetting what was behind” so that he could strain, press or reach forward toward what was still in front of him. In Isaiah 42, God, speaking to Israel, describing and announcing the coming of the Messiah said “the former things have come to pass” (meaning that they...

I have shared over and over again this year, in all of our different texts and series that the only way to truly know the nature of a kingdom is to learn the heart and character of the king. This text that we enter into today, for the third week in a row, is a...

As I’ve shared recently, this passage of Scripture has great importance to me personally but for these next few weeks I want us to see that it is a vital part of our corporate identity.   It’s a passage that reveals Jesus’ work and the Father’s desire, it literally defines reconciliation and then it takes everything...

For a few weeks we have either been in this passage of Scripture or referring to it. It’s one of those texts that simply can’t be exhausted because it doesn’t just speak to something that God has done or that God wants us to do, it reveals more of who God is, more of His...

The reality of Jesus’ physical resurrection from the dead is of the utmost importance. We are sometimes guilty of putting so much of our attention on the cross that we take the resurrection for granted or miss it’s daily, personal importance. The Scriptures teach us very clearly that the cross proved and sealed God’s love...

Last week we concentrated on the fact that “For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” Jesus became something He was not so that He could make us something we could not be. Everything that God has done from...

What kind of king leaves his throne just so that he can make a way for others to sit on it with him? What kind of king walks through his kingdom to rescue those that are against him? What kind of king dies so that others can live? What kind of king gives his wealth...

I speak fairly regularly about how forgetful we are. We can probably say that some of us are more forgetful than others but the reality is, as people, we are forgetful. The proof, for me, is found in the fact that the first thing that Jesus told His disciples that the Holy Spirit would do...

Last week we started talking about God’s choice to be faithful and His use of Hosea to show His heart to the people of Israel. God did what He always does, He spoke; He talked to Hosea, He shared His heart with Him, shared His character with Him and then He invited him or called...