LifeSpring Sermon Blog

A Word to Elders

This sermon concludes a short series on the letter of 1 Peter.  In the text Peter explains the role of an elder, and by doing this indirectly identifies the kind of community that should be built within a church.

Hard Lessons Learned In Jail

Guest speaker, Lance Marshall, is a jail minister in Contra Costa County, California.  In this sermon he shares some of the things he has learned as he works to help inmates in jails.  Lance shares very touching and wonderful insights, and this sermon is well worth listening to.

They will see your honorable behavior.

1 Peter 2:11-12 and 3:13-17 are the texts for this sermon.  This sermon looks at Peter's call to the exiles to be people who live with integrity and by so doing make the gospel attractive to their neighbors.  The sermon contrasts this way of living against what is normally thought of when we say "evangelism."

They Begged Us to Leave

This sermon finishes a short series on the book of Acts.  Acts 16:11-40 is the text, and the subject is the way that Paul, Silas, and other church leaders were transformed by the mission that God had given to the church to move westward.  The story of courage, passion, and intention is inspiring to modern-day disciples of Jesus.

Scattered Everywhere

This sermon takes a look at how the Good News moved westward from Israel to Syria, Turkey, Greece, and Italy.  It looks at how the early church had to come to terms with its Xenophobia and start to embrace a wider audience.

Simon, do you love me?

This sermon comes from John 21 and it uses the Lord's resurrections as a means by which to look at the growth of the disciples from men who often missed the point and doubted to people who were willing to go to the death for Jesus.  The sermon looks at the perplexing conversation between Jesus and Peter when Jesus asks three times if Peter loved him.

God Put Him in a Place of Honor

This sermon comes from Acts 5:26-32.  It looks at the early persecution of people such as Peter and John and how their boldness gave them determination to proclaim their faith in Christ as risen from the grave.  The sermon asks us to think about what a prayer for boldness today would look like and how it might change us.

We had hoped.

Cleopas and a friend were walking the lonely road from Jerusalem, the Cross, and defeat to their home in Emmaus, 7 miles away.  On the way they were joined by a stranger who engaged them in conversation about the event that had just transpired.  What they didn't know was that it was Jesus.  This sermon explores that conversation.  Luke 24:13-34 is the text.

Poured Out for You

Galatians 2:19-20 and Luke 22:14-23 are the texts for this sermon.  The sermon is intended to look at the crucifixion in order to understand and appreciate its far-reaching implications.  Much more than one person dying to save another person, the cross is cosmic in scope.

Storming the Gates of Hell

This sermon takes its text from Luke 11:14-23, and it is the second in a 2-part series about the war that God is carrying on against evil.  This sermon explores how God is steadily at work restoring the creation to its original form as Satan is defeated.