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Saturday Dec 31, 2022
Highway to Holiness
Saturday Dec 31, 2022
Saturday Dec 31, 2022
This sermon is from Isaiah 35:1-10. This text was probably written to Judah after either the Assyrian or the Babylonian invasion and all the pain it brought to Judah. Of course, it contains overtones of the coming of the Kingdom of God as the final redemptive act of God for humanity.
Monday Dec 16, 2019
This is how it happened.
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Monday Dec 16, 2019
A week and a half before Christmas, it is good to be reminded of the events that led up to the birth of Christ. In this sermon from Matthew 1:18-25 we look at Matthew's genealogy and how Matthew sets up the event of Joseph's visit from an angel.
Monday Dec 24, 2018
Monday Dec 24, 2018
God Took Notice of Me
Monday Dec 24, 2018
Monday Dec 24, 2018
This is the final sermon in the Advent series and comes from Luke 1:46-55. It focuses on the mixed and confused message that Americans hear during this season from advertisers, stores, politicians, and others about what Christmas means. Mary's Magnificat orients us in a powerful way to what God is doing.
Monday Dec 17, 2018
Cheer Up Zion
Monday Dec 17, 2018
Monday Dec 17, 2018
This week's sermon comes from Zechariah. The majority of the prophecy is a rage, by God, toward Judah and the way she had conducted her national life and treatment of the disenfranchised. The final verses of Zechariah, on the other hand, are a hopeful declaration that God is in the midst of the people and will ultimately bless them.
Sunday Dec 09, 2018
He has sent us a mighty savior.
Sunday Dec 09, 2018
Sunday Dec 09, 2018
This Advent sermon takes its text from Luke 1:68-69, Zechariah's song of praise about the promise that God made to us which was fulfilled by Jesus. The sermon calls for three Advent behaviors: 1) Let us notice God's presence in our lives, 2) Let us have hope, not despair, and 3) Let us live with courage.
Sunday Dec 17, 2017
Good News to the Oppressed
Sunday Dec 17, 2017
Sunday Dec 17, 2017
This sermon was preached on the third Sunday of Advent and takes its text from Isaiah 64:1-4. "For since the world began, no ear has heard and no eye has seen a God like you, who works for those who wait for him." The central premise of the sermon is that only those who honestly understand their lowly, sinful condition can really regard the Good News as such.
Monday Dec 11, 2017
Speak Tenderly to Jerusalem
Monday Dec 11, 2017
Monday Dec 11, 2017
Isaiah 64 is the source for this sermon's text. The sermon explores the relationship of exile to hope.
Monday Nov 20, 2017
Let Justice Roll
Monday Nov 20, 2017
Monday Nov 20, 2017
In this text from Amos 5:18-24 Amos announces to Judah that God is fed up with all their religious rituals which are empty of the good fruit that God expects from them: "a mighty flood of justice and an endless river of righteous living." This is the second sermon in a series preparing us for Advent.
Sunday Dec 18, 2016
Weak Knees and Tired Hands
Sunday Dec 18, 2016
Sunday Dec 18, 2016
This sermon was the fourth and last in LifeSpring's Advent series and took it's text from Isaiah 7:10-16. It looks at the manner in which Isaiah speaks what some call "a word out of place." In other words, when things look bleak is the time when Isaiah says the hopeful and forward looking thing. It's the word you most want to hear when things look hopeless and associated this time of year with the coming of Christ.