Sermons from December 2018
The Last Hour (1 John 2:18-27)
Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Relent, Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants.Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble.1May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendor to their children. May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the…
The Wise Men from the East
May the kings of Tarshish and of distant shores bring tribute to him.May the kings of Sheba and Seba present him gifts.1May all kings bow down to him and all nations serve him. For he will deliver the needy who cry out, the afflicted who have no one to help.He will take pity on the weak and the needy and save the needy from death.He will rescue them from oppression and violence, for precious is their blood in his sight. Long may he live! May gold from Sheba be given him.May people ever pray for…
Prophecies About Jesus Our Savior
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind,to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” Luke 4:18-19; Isaiah 61:1-2
A Matter of Power (1 Cor. 4)
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” Romans 1:16-17
God’s Temple (1 Cor. 3:18-23)
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. Ephesians 2:19-21