Oct 16, 2022 | Sunday Evening
The title to this afternoon’s message is: “Where Can I Find Christ Jesus?” I will begin with something for which I might get some flack, but I know I’m not the only guilty person here, so I might let you shield me if there is any push-back. Years ago, I read and...
Oct 10, 2022 | Sunday Evening
Elizabeth Barrett’s parents disapproved so strongly of her marriage to Robert Browning that they disowned her. Almost every week for years Elizabeth wrote letters to her parents begging for reconciliation. Not once did they ever reply. Then after 10 years of...
Sep 18, 2022 | Sunday Evening
When the church in Jerusalem was needing help for their widows and orphans, the congregation set forth seven men to serve as servants – “deacons.” There was the famous Philip, and the not so famous Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nicolas. In Acts 6 these men...
Sep 12, 2022 | Sunday Evening
How many times have you been sitting in a reception area, waiting for someone to call your name? How many times in the last month have you been in a doctor’s waiting room? The last time I was in such a place, my wife and I had been there for more than hour before a...
Sep 5, 2022 | Sunday Evening
In the first paragraph of this chapter, Peter was writing to Christian women married to unsaved husbands. “Ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While...
Aug 15, 2022 | Sunday Evening
I hope that some of you can remember when your English teacher asked you to diagram sentences. The technique was used to help us learn the various parts of a proper sentence, and to speak correctly. We were taught the rudiments: the subject, the predicate and the...
Aug 7, 2022 | Sunday Evening
I read a statement a few weeks ago which I saved to put into the bulletin some day, but I’ll use it right now. Jim Petersen asked, “Why didn’t Jesus go back into the temple after His resurrection?” That is an interesting question with several possible answers, but...
Jul 18, 2022 | Sunday Evening
The Statue of Liberty stands on a rock in New York Harbor. Tens of thousands of immigrants have passed it before disembarking at Ellis Island and entering the U.S. That statue, sometimes called “Lady Liberty,” is about half as tall as Seattle’s Space Needle. Green in...
Jul 11, 2022 | Sunday Evening
The Bible describes life in a number of ways. James says that it is a vapour, a puff of steam, “that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away.” David, approaching his earthly end, described his life as nothing more substantial than a passing shadow. Job...
Jun 27, 2022 | Sunday Evening
How odd should the people of God be in the eyes of the world? Some might criticize my use of the word “odd,” but note that I am using it in the context of the unsaved mind. We might prefer the word “peculiar,” but we know it in its Biblical context, whereas the world...
Jun 13, 2022 | Sunday Evening
I mentioned in our last lesson that one of the ways the Holy Spirit keeps His Word relevant is with the use of timeless illustrations. For example, babies have been essentially the same from the day in which Eve first gave birth. The Spirit uses what we know about...
Jun 6, 2022 | Sunday Evening
I very much enjoyed preaching through I Peter chapter 1. There is a lot of great material there, including the gospel. With chapter 2 Peter’s subject changes from salvation to practical Christian living. And to be honest with you, I seriously thought about bringing...
May 15, 2022 | Sunday Evening
Paul and Silas were directed by the Holy Spirit to sail across the northern tip of the Aegean Sea from Troas to Philippi. Their lives then intersected with the life of Lydia, who was working there, but who actually lived in Thyatira. She responded positively to their...
May 2, 2022 | First Peter, Sunday Evening
The Almighty God, Elohim, created the universe between six and ten thousand years ago. And it goes without saying that God did not create Himself. A corollary to that point is that God has always been. The Lord God is eternal, not just in the sense of the future, but...
Apr 25, 2022 | First Peter, Sunday Evening
This morning I dealt with the doctrine of redemption. Perhaps I should say, I introduced the doctrine of redemption. Because, as I hope many of you recognized, I didn’t say anything about the blood of the Redeemer. Peter says, “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not...
