LifeSpring Sermon Blog

The sermon for 9 August comes from 1 Kings 19:1-21 and is about the way that Jezebel terrified Elijah and caused him to flee to a cave about 100 miles south.  Wanting to give up.  No doubt feeling like a failure.  The sermon is about what happens to him.

Jim Grasley delivered this sermon and took his text from Matthew 14:13-21.  In this text Matthew records the feeding of the crowd of 5000 people.

On August 30, LifeSpring Church celebrated our 20th Anniversary.  Bruce Logue and Jim Grasley delivered a split sermon based on 1 Samuel 7:12 and Philippians 1:3-6.  The general theme for the morning was the importance of memory in shaping who we are in the future.

Jesus took his disciples to a place that boasted "the gate of Hell."  It was there that Peter made his great confession about who Jesus was.  And Jesus from the paganism of Caesarea Philippi announced that not even the gates of Hell could prevail against it.  This sermon explores why Caesarea Philippi was such an appropriate place to have this talk.  Matthew 16:13-28.

The sermon for 7/26 is the Joseph story, from his station as Jacob's favorite son to second in command of the Egyptian Pharaoh.  The sermon continues to explore the persistence of God's promise.

On Sunday, July 19, the text of the sermon came from Genesis 29:10-19.  This sermon takes up the story of Jacob and the persistence of God's promise that God continues to make and remake.

This sermon comes from Genesis 22:1–14, the text that chronicles the act of faith when Abraham took his only son, Isaac, in accord with what God told him to do, intending to kill and sacrifice Isaac to God.  It's a grisly story, which we examine in this sermon.

This sermon comes from Romans 6 and is Paul's description of what the sacrament of baptism means to the disciple of Jesus.   From Romans 6:1-11.

This sermon is the second in a series from Genesis, and it pertains to the hospitable way that Abraham treated his unknown guests.  The sermon is about the practice of hospitality.

This sermon comes from Genesis 12:1-9, the account of Abraham's call to be the carrier of God's intention to bless "all the families of the earth."  We explore the insistence of this promise throughout all of Scripture.