Sermons from August 2023

“Come, all you who are thirsty,    come to the waters;and you who have no money,    come, buy and eat!Come, buy wine and milk    without money and without cost. Give ear and come to me;    listen, that you may live.I will make an everlasting covenant with you,    my faithful love promised to David. Seek the Lord while he may be found;    call on him while he is near.Let the wicked forsake their ways    and the unrighteous their thoughts.Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,    and to our God, for he will freely pardon. Isaiah 55:1,3,6-7…

Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup;    you make my lot secure.The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;    surely I have a delightful inheritance.I will praise the Lord, who counsels me;    even at night my heart instructs me.I keep my eyes always on the Lord.    With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;    my body also will rest secure,because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,    nor will you let your faithful[b] one see decay.You…

His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.  Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. 2 Peter 1:3-4 Sermon Notes

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare. Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire,…