Sermons from January 2025
Epiphany 3 – 2025
“NEITHER THE PREACHER NOR THE HEARER SHOULD DOUBT THE GRACE AND ACTIVITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT” Prayer: Gracious Lord, guard us from judging from what we see, feel or experience about the effect or effectiveness of Your Word among people in our lives. Help us to believe and trust that when the Word is preached and heard, as You promise people will believe this Word and agree with it. Produce a firm faith in us, and also in others. Grant…
Epiphany 2 – 2025
THE GREATNESS OF A CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE AND HOME At the very end of John 1, Jesus calls His 5th disciple, Philip, who then goes to find his friend Nathanael sitting under a fig tree. Where Nathanael’s sitting shows that he was waiting for the Messiah, because it was written in the prophets that when the Messiah came, he would inaugurate a kingdom of peace in which every man would “sit under his fig tree” (Mic 4:4). Nathanael was waiting for…
Epiphany 1 – 2025
THE CHILD, JESUS Like all Jewish parents, Mary and Joseph knew their chief responsibility was to teach the faith to their children. They diligently taught Jesus. He went with them to synagogue every Sabbath. Like all Jewish mothers, Mary began teaching Him from the cradle. As soon as He could talk, Joseph had to begin His instruction. He surely did so, for if he failed to impart knowledge of the Law to his son – even to Jesus — he…
Epiphany Sunday -2025
Sermon: Matthew 2:1-12 (Historic Gospel) Epiphany Sunday, Hope-Leander TX THE CHRISTMAS OF THE GENTILES The Old Testament is filled with promises from God that His salvation is for all people, not only Jews but also the Gentiles, “the nations.” As you read the Old Testament this can be easy to forget, as it’s Israel Against Everybody. All the nations are trying to destroy them. You can forget that God told Abraham, through his offspring God wanted “all the nations” to…