This sermon takes its text from Romans 5:1-11.  In that text Paul tells us that when we were UTTERLY HELPLESS Christ came to die for us.  The sermon explores the idea of being completely reliant on Christ's undeserved love for us.

Monika Grasley was our guest speaker in Bruce's absence.

Malachi was written to Judah, post-Babylon.  It was written to rebuke the nation for their failure to give God what was God's due.  This sermon concludes with the question of when we, too, can be guilty of robbing God.

Paul told the Corinthian church that he had baptized none of them except Crispus and Gaius and was thankful for that because of the Corinthian church's tendency to divide into factions based on who baptized them.  

The core of the text is Paul's assertion that such factionalism empties the Cross of Christ of its power.  That is the focus of today's sermon.

 Psalm 40 is the text for this sermon.  The sermon examines the Psalmist's dependence on God for some crisis in his life.  "[The Lord] lifted me out of the pit of despair."