Lectionary ReadingsSermon Text: Isaiah 64:1-9
Sermon Title: “Welcoming the Sun/Son”
Sermon Notes: Have you ever longed for God to act to deliver you from misery? Speaking for God’s people, the prophet Isaiah reveals that spirit of longing. When God’s people lived in exile, they longed for their homeland. Coming home led to more frustration, and they cried to God in desperation. [...]
Sermon Text: Psalm 100
Sermon Title: “Sufficient for Thanksgiving”
Sermon Notes: Christians should give even a bit of thanks as a real sacrifice for people whose lives have taken a turn for the worse. Indeed, for all of us there are times when scraping together gas money seems easier than scraping together praises for God on a Sunday morning.
Order of [...]
Sermon Text: Judges 4:1-7
Sermon Title: “Don’t Refuse Help”
Sermon Notes: God’s people again forgot their God - and once more God sends an unlikely deliverer. God called a woman to be a judge and despite the skepticism of the people, she helped to set God’s people free. God sometimes chooses an unlikely person to accomplish the divine plan. The [...]
Sermon Text: Matthew 25:1-13
Sermon Title: “Destination”
Sermon Notes: While sitting on the Mount of Olives, Jesus shares with his disciples this parable and many others to assure them that costly faithfulness sustained through times of persecution and despair will be rewarded. Jesus’ parable of the bridesmaids is not primarily a warning to unbelievers or believers who are not on [...]
Sermon Text: Revelation 7:9-17
Sermon Title: “A Costume for…well, Forever”
Sermon Notes: The martyrs glorified in heaven and the saints struggling here on earth are part of one great communion praising the Lord Jesus! Multitudes are included in the great praise of God, and those multitudes are drawn from both sides of the grave. God does not forget those [...]
