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The Giant in the Valley (I Samuel 17: 31-37)
Goliath stood nine and a half feet tall. We’re talking a surefire NBA lottery pick. He was covered head to toe in polished bronze and carried a spear the size of a pole-vault pole and a shield that looked like a piece of aluminum siding. And he walked before the...
“The Abuse of Adonijah” (I Kings 1: 5-6)
All of you know who Adonijah is without my saying a word, so I won’t bother refreshing your memories – at least not just yet. But know this about Adonijah – he was abused as a child. No, he was not abused in the way you might be thinking, which is to say that he was...
“When God Lets Us Go” (Romans 1: 18-25)
When we say the phrase, “the wrath of God,” it is easy to conjure up the image of some bearded Greco-Roman deity sitting on a throne hurling down thunderbolts from heaven upon those who have irritated him. Those of you who know early American preacher Jonathan...
“My Anchor Holds” (Psalm 62: 1-7)
The Weather Channel displays a great aptitude for obtaining not only amazing videos of awe-inspiring or incredibly-destructive natural catastrophes, but sometimes, they manage to gain footage of weird human- interest events that capture people’s attention. This week...
What Constitutes Success? (Genesis 39: 19-23)
Three sources have inspired this sermon, one literary, one Biblical and one, shall we say, contemporary. The literary inspiration was provided by a man named Horatio Alger, whom I suspect virtually none of you have ever heard of. But in the late 19th century and...