Mark 1:21-34 James 5:14 Elliot and I have felt led by God to preach sermons in this season of Lent, the forty days preceding Easter, that focus on major emphases in the ministry of Jesus. Elliot preached last Sunday about prayer and the practice of Jesus to go away to a quiet place to pray,…
Ephesians 5:3-14 There are some things I would have done differently if I had been God when the world was created. One of these would have been to choose an alternative to human sexual reproduction. Sexual immorality has caused so many problems in history and continues to wreck havoc in the world and in the…
Ephesians 4:25-32 Did you know the Bible says, “There is no God”? Psalm 14:1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good. Context is so important and although this is a trite example, it can be more serious if…
Ephesians 4:17-24 What makes a novel written fifty or one hundred years ago interesting to read today? Certainly it is important that the writing is good, but there are lots of well-written books that are dated and boring to read. I am certainly not going to exhaust this question in an introduction to a sermon,…
Ephesians 4:7-16 Ephesians is one of four letters Paul wrote while in prison in Rome. He was 56 years old, just two to four years away from his death at the hand of the Emperor Nero. His body was wracked with pain from all the beatings and floggings he had received over the years. In…