Sermons from October 2017

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.  All of us also lived among them at one time,gratifying the cravings of our flesh

“If you, Israel, will return,     then return to me,” declares the Lord. “If you put your detestable idols out of my sight     and no longer go astray, and if in a truthful, just and righteous way     you swear, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’ then the nations will invoke blessings by him     and in him they will boast.” This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground     and do not sow among thorns. Circumcise yourselves to the Lord,     circumcise…

But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.  The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness.  Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance…Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation… 2 Peter 3:8-9,15a

Blessed is the one     who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take     or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,     and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,     which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—     whatever they do prospers. Not so the wicked!     They are like chaff     that the wind blows away. Therefore the wicked…