Sermons from November 2024
Thanksgiving Service_ 2024
“BLESS THE LORD, O MY SOUL” The Text, Psalm 103:1-22 (v. 1-2). Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits … Lord, this is Your Word and these are Your words. Sanctify us by the truth. Your Word is truth. Heavenly Father, God of all grace, govern our hearts that we may never forget Your benefits but steadfastly thank and…
Trinity 27 – 2024
THE END OF THE GOSPEL The End of the Gospel. That’s where we are today. After a year of being in Mark’s gospel for the sermons, we come to the last 2 verses. It’s like the end of a story. If the gospels are the story of what Jesus did on earth, isn’t the end of the story Him going back up to heaven? After going through Mark’s gospel, walking along with the disciples seeing all that Jesus did, we…
Trinity 26- 2024
Mark 13:24-37 KNOWING THE TIME As Jesus concludes his sermon to His disciples about “what will be the sign of His coming and of the end of the age” (Mt 24:3.Mk 13:4), He gets into His actual coming, the moment when He appears in “great power and glory.” He speaks about things happening to the sun, moon, and stars that we’ve never seen or heard of. But it wasn’t the first time this was spoken. Through the prophet Isaiah – 700 years previously – God…
Trinity 25 – 2024
GOOD NEWS, WE’RE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS Mark 13 is one long answer to a question. This is also true of Matthew 24. Same event. This was on Tuesday of the week that Jesus died on the cross. He had just left the temple for the last time. While He thought about these things, Jesus spoke of how the temple would be utterly destroyed one day. This made the disciples think of the end of the world. They asked…
All Saints – 2024
CHRIST HAS CALLED YOU TO BE HIS MARTYR Perpetua was a young wife and mother, with a nursing child, in 203 A.D. Although the Roman emperor forbade conversion to Christianity, she believed in Jesus – with her servant Felicitas. They were arrested leaving church. She and Felicitas were thrown into prison. Her father (an unbeliever) begged her to renounce her faith. He said, “Have pity on us (your parents and brother).” She said, “Do you see that pitcher of water?…