LifeSpring Sermon Blog

What difference does it make?

John 20:19-31 is the text for this week's sermon.  "What difference does it make?" takes a look at Thomas' doubt and the role of Jesus' embodied self that the disciples encountered after the Resurrection.  The sermon looks at why the embodied Jesus' is important for fatih.

What would you do?

This sermon comes from Acts 10:34-43 and examines the reaction of the early disciples to the resurrection of Jesus.

Dem Bones, Dem Bones

This week's sermon comes from Ezekiel 37, and it concerns the rescue of Judah from Babylonian captivity.  The text uses the imagery of a valley filled with bleached, lifeless bones which are brought back to life with the breath of God.  The image also serves as a good way to describe the transformation of becoming restored in a Christian or spiritual sense.

My Shepherd

Psalm 23 is one of the most-read passages in the Bible.  Because of that it is often read mechanically and without much specific thought about what it is saying.  The sermon this week aims to take a deeper look at this important psalm.

When We Run into Trouble

Romans 5:1-11 is the text for this sermon in which Paul tells the church at Rome that suffering actually builds strong character in those who persevere in spite of it.   

Going up?

Jim Grasley takes this week's sermon from Psalm 121 in which the Psalmist affirms that God is the source of his help through all of life.  

When Adam Sinned

This week's sermon comes from Romans 5:12-19, and its central idea is examining the far-reaching consequences of the first humans' rebellion against God.  In this text Paul, the writer, compares the destructive consequence of Adam's sin to the contrasting repair, restoration, and recovery of Christ's central act.

His face shined like the sun.

February 15 was Transfiguration Sunday in the Christian calendar, so the text chosen for the sermon was the account of Jesus taking Peter, James, and John to the top of a mountain where his appearance was "transfigured" before their eyes.  This text is from Mark 9:2-17, although it is recorded in Matthew and Luke as well.

Salt of the Earth

This sermon comes from Matthew 5:13-20, and it concerns Jesus' telling the crowd of follower that they, and they alone, were salt and light in the world.  They were to deliver preservation and healing in the manner that Salt does.
Matthew 5:13-20
Salt of the Earth

It's not what you think.

Jim Grasley examines 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 in this sermon.  A text where Paul takes up the issue of the paradox of the Cross.