LifeSpring Sermon Blog

"Favor the Lowly"

This sermon looks at how Mary's Magnificat contains echoes of the Old Testament in its message of redemption.

Rejoice Always

This sermon comes from Philippians 4:4-7 in which Paul tells the Philippian church to "rejoice always."  Paul believed that joy can exist despite the external circumstances of our lives as evidenced by the fact that he was calling the Philippians to joy despite the fact that he was in prison.  With war in Syria, the rise of Isis, global warming, and a host of other ills, we can still rejoice because of the God we serve.

Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord?

This sermon takes its text from Jeremiah 33 as God tells Jeremiah to purchase land in a city about to be overrun and destroyed by invading armies.  The hope and expectation of Jeremiah serve as a perfect backdrop to talk about Advent.

Turning On A Switch

This sermon takes a look at the subject of gratitude.  In light of the fact that Thanksgiving Day is less than one week away, it is good to remember the importance of being thankful and what a thankless society looks like.

Be Holy Like God

This sermon explores the idea of God's intention that his people would be holy in the way that he is.  This idea is found throughout the Old and New Testaments beginning in Exodus.

We're All Under Sin's Power

This sermon takes its texts from Genesis and Romans, and its chief purpose is to look at the social and personal affects of sin.

A Two-Part Ethic

This sermon takes a look at the Bible's summary of all sin as either a failure to love God or to love one's fellow man.  All sin is a failure of love.  As stated in the sermon, the command to love is the most difficult in the Bible given our proclivity to selfishness.

I'm Just A-Passing Through

This sermon takes its title from the language of exiles used in 1 Peter and it refers to how disciples of Jesus are more like refugees than settled residents.  This is the first sermon in a short series on the study of sin.  

What does discipleship look like?

This is the last sermon in a series on discipleship, and in it we look at Paul's assertion that Jesus surmounts everything else in the world in importance.  Jesus said that there is a certain burden associated with following him, but it is light in comparison to every other path we might take.

Jesus Is Calling YOU

This sermon begins with the telling of the story of Scheherazade and her conversion to Christianity.  Dietrich Bonhoeffer went to a firing squad in Hitler's prisons because of his commitment to following Jesus alone.  The sermon looks at what Jesus expects of his followers.