Joel 2:21-27 Attitude of Gratitude Joel 2:21-27 Attitude of Gratitude is a sermon for Thanksgiving A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird’s mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried and tried to change the bird’s attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of to ‘clean up’ the... Read more
Zechariah 14:1-11 The Bible in the News: Jerusalem I want to share with you from time to time a series of sermons which I will call: “The Bible in the News.” Tonight, I want to share with you about Jerusalem. In this case, we will look at the future of Jerusalem in the near future. At present, Israel is at the brink of war with Hamas which is based in the Gaza Strip. Hezbollah which is Arabic for Party of... Read more
How Much God Really Cares for You This Christmas How Much God Really Cares for You This Christmas is a sermon about the ways in which God really cares for you this Christmas. Peace – Love – Joy – Hope These are the four words God wants us to associate with Christmas. Stess – Loneliness – Sadness – Despair These are the words that we most often see with people we know during Christmas. Do you know that these four... Read more
God’s Best Gift in the Worst of Times INTRODUCTION: “WHO WILL I BE?” GAME Why did I quiz you in this way? It is because this is how it was for the people during the birth of Jesus Christ. Everyone knew enough information about His Coming that they could probably determine when He would come. Let me share with you a list of prophecies that were fulfilled when Jesus Christ was born. Notice that sprinkled all through the Old Testament,... Read more
The Temptation to Be Like Everyone Else “The people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us. Then we’ll be like all the other nations: our king will judge us, go out before us, and fight our battles.”” (1 Samuel 8:19–20, HCSB) No one wants to be unique anymore. Everyone wants to fit in. Follow the crowd because we want to be like everyone else. Peer pressure is the hardest pressure to overcome.... Read more
Animals as Angels in Disguise “Then the Lord God said to the serpent: Because you have done this, you are cursed more than any livestock and more than any wild animal. You will move on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life. I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.” (Genesis 3:14–15, HCSB) In the beginning, animals... Read more
God Uses Hornets to Protect His People God Uses Hornets to Protect His People is a simple thought reflection from Joshua 24:12 about the way that God can use hornets, or any of His creation to protect His people. “I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you. It was not by your sword or bow.” (Joshua 24:12, HCSB) God uses bees (ok, so technically hornets) to chase His enemies. I don’t... Read more
Belief and Promise Belief and Promise is a simple thought reflection from Genesis 15:6 about the connection between my belief in God and His promises that He keeps to me. “Abram believed the Lord, and He credited it to him as righteousness.” (Genesis 15:6, HCSB) At some point in the relationship between God and Abram, Abram decided to believe that God was important to believe. He discovered that if God made a promise to Him, then Abram could trust God.... Read more
Who Gets Blessed? Who gets blessed? Let’s look at the following Bible verse: “I will bless those who bless you, I will curse those who treat you with contempt, and all the peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” (Genesis 12:3, HCSB) I have always read this passage and was taught that the blessing was for the nation of Israel. The teaching went like this: “I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you, I will... Read more
Prophecy Watch: The Final Battle ““This is what the Lord God says: Are you the one I spoke about in former times through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who for years prophesied in those times that I would bring you against them?” (Ezekiel 38:17, HCSB) The prophecy about Gog (the Antichrist ruler who in the future will invade Israel to destroy it) is very intriguing for a variety of reasons. First, God tells Ezekiel that these times have been... Read more
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