14 November 2021
Series: Non-Series Sermons
Israel, having been delivered by God from their slavery in Egypt, having been led and preserved through forty years of wandering in the wilderness, is now just on the verge of entering into the Promised Land and taking possession of it. And in Deuteronomy 26, God gives instructions to His people on how to live as His people in this new land, in this new situation– how to remain His faithful people once they are settled into this land overflowing with milk and honey and all manner of good things.
7 November 2021
By faith, and not by sight, we know and confess that God is present and active in His world, always. That God, in the midst of human affairs, is quietly working out His great plan of salvation.
31 October 2021
Naaman was a man who had everything – power, status, esteem, success, riches. He was beloved by his king, beloved by his soldiers, beloved by the people of Syria, feared by the people of all the surrounding nations, including Israel. But . . . there was just one problem – Naaman was also a leper.
24 October 2021
This business of Elijah leading Elisha from Gilgal to Bethel to Jericho to the Jordan River and beyond. What is this all about? I would suggest that it is to teach Elisha and to teach us that our faith has a holy geography that we need to know and to honor, and in which to make our spiritual home.
17 October 2021
King Ahaziah really should have known better. Maybe he had not been old enough to be there with his father Ahab on Mt. Carmel the day God had sent down fire from heaven to consume the offering and to put to flight the prophets of Baal. But surely he had heard about that day.
10 October 2021
When it comes to our religion, we want consolation without conviction. We want reassurance without repentance. We want wholeness without holiness.