Sermons from 2025 (Page 3)
A Call to Worship the Living God
In this sermon, part of the series “The Living and True God,” Psalm 145 is explored as a earnest call to worship God for his divine attributes and mighty works. The Psalm, with its rich vocabulary of praise, emphasizes God as the worthy recipient of adoration. It reveals God’s God’s greatness, seen in his everlasting kingdom and reminds us of God’s goodness in his love for his people and all creation. This psalm calls us to overcome ignorance and pride,…
The Name of the Lord: Greatness, Goodness, and Justice
This sermon explores God’s self-disclosure to Moses in Exodus 34:6-7, where he proclaims his name and character, emphasizing his greatness, goodness, and justice. God’s greatness is seen in his self-existence and supreme sovereignty as “The LORD, the LORD,” unmatched in authority and power. His goodness is revealed through attributes like compassion, grace, patience, steadfast love, faithfulness, and forgiveness, inviting believers to draw near and imitate these qualities. Yet, his justice ensures that the guilty who do not repent face consequences,…
I AM: Knowing the Living and True God
The greatest problem facing society, families, and the church today is a lack of knowledge of God. This sermon, like the Bible, presupposes God’s existence and focuses on revealing who he is, particularly through his personal name, YHWH, translated as “I AM” in Exodus 3:14. This name signifies God as the self-existent, sovereign, unchanging, and covenant-keeping Lord, fully revealed in Jesus Christ, who is the “I AM” incarnate. There is transformative power in knowing God, which brings eternal life, holiness,…
The Exalted Christ: A Call to Joyful Worship
We explore the final moments of Jesus’ earthly ministry, focusing on his blessing of the disciples, his ascension, and the disciples’ response of worship, joy, and public praise. The blessing signifies a transition, not an end, as Jesus commissions his followers to continue his mission with divine favor. His ascension marks his exaltation, vindicating his obedience and completing his redemptive work. The disciples’ response””worshiping Christ, joyfully waiting for the promised Holy Spirit, and praising God together publicly””serves as a model…
From Resurrection to Mission: Proclaiming Christ to the Nations
Here we consider Jesus’ commission to his disciples to proclaim the gospel of repentance and forgiveness of sins to all nations. The sermon highlights three key points: the proclamation of Christ’s suffering, resurrection, and the call to repentance as foretold in passages like Joel 2 and Isaiah 49; the necessity of personal testimony, where believers share their own experience of Christ’s transformative grace; and the promise of the Holy Spirit’s power, which emboldens disciples to preach with courage and enables…
From Doubt to Divine Understanding
The sermon examines the encounter of the disciples with the risen Christ on the evening of the resurrection. We see their initial fear, doubt, and struggle to believe in the physical resurrection despite compelling evidence, reflecting the human tendency toward unbelief. Jesus addresses their doubts through his physical appearance, while emphasizing the necessity of understanding Scripture. This sermon shows that true enlightenment comes not from worldly rationalism but from God opening minds to grasp the Scriptures, revealing Christ’s identity, suffering,…
Declare the Glory of God
In this sermon, guest preacher Kevin Swanson emphasizes the importance of the Gospel and the need for Christians to declare its message to all nations, tribes, peoples, and languages. He highlights that not only should Christians share the Gospel, but they must also be genuinely excited about it, recognizing that it is the only message of hope and joy. Passage: Psalm 96
Jesus Revealed: The Christ of Scripture
This sermon explores how the Old Testament Scriptures prophetically reveal the identity, suffering, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, as taught by Jesus himself to the disciples on the Emmaus road. By examining key passages like Psalm 110, Psalm 2, Deuteronomy 18, Psalm 22, Isaiah 53, and Daniel 7, the sermon demonstrates that Jesus is the promised King, Priest, and Prophet who suffered, died, and rose again according to God’s divine plan. It emphasizes the importance of biblical literacy in understanding…
Waging War with Divine Power
The Bible portrays the Christian life as a spiritual battle, with believers as soldiers of Christ engaged in a war against lies and false ideologies. This text highlights the heart of a warrior””a Christ-like meekness with boldness””and outlines the divine weapons of truth, righteousness, and the gospel for destroying arguments and lofty opinions contrary to the knowledge of God. In this fight, we are called to obedience to Christ as the primary battle plan, starting within the church, and motivated…
Awesome, Noteworthy, Delightful Gospel Conjunction!
The sermon on Revelation 22:13&16 focused on the conjunction “And” between the five couplets of special names and titles for the Lord Jesus, come as Savior of sinners. The wonderfulness of Jesus’ names and titles in the Bible, (over 200!) is that His names are not simply labels but true descriptions and declarations of who He is in all His fullness and sufficiency as Saviour. “O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!” Psalm 8:1.…
Seeing Christ on the Emmaus Road
This sermon explores the transformative encounter of two disciples with the risen Jesus on the road to Emmaus. It delves into their initial despair and unbelief, the divine concealment of Jesus’ identity, and his revelation through Scripture and the breaking of bread. The sermon highlights how Jesus teaches us to recognize him not through physical sight but through the Word and the Lord’s Supper, inspiring us to trust in his resurrection and share the good news with others, even without…
Remember His Words: The Resurrection Account
This sermon revists the resurrection account, considering the acts of Joseph of Arimathea, the witness of the angels, and the response of the women and disciples of Jesus. Importantly, the sermon underscores the importance of remembering Jesus’ words, which were initially met with disbelief but ultimately confirmed by the empty tomb, leading to faith and marveling among the disciples. It calls believers to honor Christ publicly, trust in the vindication of God’s word, and find joy and confidence in the…