LifeSpring Sermon Blog

This sermon comes from Exodus 5:1-6:1 and it is about the conflict between Pharaoh (Thutmose III) and the people of Israel who were being held captive in Egypt.  The sermon contrasts the demands of Pharaoh against the laws given by God to Israel in the Ten Commandments.  The premise of the sermon is that the laws that God gives us to govern our lives as his people are far lighter and benevolent toward us than the onerous commands of Pharaoh.

This sermon comes from Joshua's final speech to Israel (Joshua 24:2, 14-15)l in which he calls for them to make a decision about whom they will worship in the future - the gods of their ancestors or The God of Israel.  The sermon examines the way in which our faith become polluted by other ideas which we indiscriminately add to our belief system.

This sermon looks at the practice of confession in regard to our sins and failures.  Psalm 130, our text, is one of the Psalms of Ascent that pilgrims sang as they made the trek to Jerusalem and the Temple to worship and sacrifice.

This sermon comes from Luke 6:27-42 and is about the implications of the Golden Rule. In the sermon, Jesus uses 9 imperatives to tell his disciples what loving other people looks like in its action.  He only uses two negative verbs to say what NOT to do.  Indeed, love is more about what we do than we don't do.

This sermon comes from Philippians 4 with its story of Euodia and Syntyche whose spat was poisoning the church.  Listen to an ancient telling of an always current problem.