Sermons from March 2020
God? Disease, Suffering, and Death
When calamity strikes, it is common to consider God’s plan and power. Is God responsible? Is this judgment? How can he allow this? How can he be glorified in this? Won’t this turn people away from him? Why doesn’t he do something? In this sermon, we consider the scriptural witness that God is in absolute control over all things, including suffering. But rather than be a detriment to faith, this undergirds and raises our faith! We consider six ways God’s…
Hope While Longing to be Together
Pastor Tim addresses the church with an exhortation from 2 Timothy 1. Paul wrote to Timothy as they were apart and hindered from gathering together as a church. Paul writes words of encouragement and hope centered in our unity in the Holy Spirit and in the gospel. May this message bring you hope as we wait together for our reunion as a local body of Christ.
Before God’s Throne
In this sermon, Zophar speaks for the last time. He warns Job of the fate of the wicked. Their prosperity will be shorted lived. Their appetite for sin’s promises destroys themselves and others. Their actions will invoke the wrath of God. Zophar is wrong in understanding Job’s suffering is the consequence of his sin but he doesn’t completely miss the mark in his warning against wickedness. We are all deserving of God’s wrath. But the good news is that God…
I Know My Redeemer Lives
We consider one of the most famous expressions of trust in God that Job utters. I know my Redeemer lives. How can Job have such hope in God when all the evidence seems contrary to this kind of hope? How does Job’s understanding of God’s sovereignty bring him to this point of faith? What we see is that a sovereign God makes grace and mercy possible. He can bind up, but he call also set free. Most amazing for us…
What It Means to Know God
Bildad accuses Job of not knowing God. But what does it really meant to know God? It is prosperity or blessing? What does it look like to know God? What we see in Scripture is that the root of knowing God is loving God. It is entering the love of Father and Son. It is entering the love on display in the gospel where Christ came to rescue a people to reconcile them to God. From this love flows a…