Text Sermons
“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...
Knowing the Will of God (Genesis 22: 1-14)
The difficulty of this passage roots in the conundrum that what seems to be the specific will of God in this instance so clearly contradicts the general will of God throughout the Bible. Throughout the Old Testament God unequivocally commands the Hebrew people not to...