LifeSpring Sermon Blog

Random Wisdom

This sermon takes its text from Proverbs 1:1-7.  The sermon examines the role that wisdom plays in our lives in helping us to live in the way that God wants us to live.

Praying the Hours

This sermon examines the role that the Psalms play in the lives of people wanting to follow God.  They are centering, honest, and God-focused.  The sermon also serves as an introduction to the video clip demonstrating what praying the hours looks like.

I Will Not Let You Go!

This sermon comes from the occasion Jacob's encounter with God on Jacob's way home with his wives, children, and wealth.  The sermon explores the sometimes painful interactions we have with God that work for our betterment.

Changed by the Psalms

This sermon looks at Psalm 19 and its call to us to follow God and how the Creation helps to confirm in us the reality of God's involvement in earth and humanity.  This is the final sermon in a June-July sermon series on the Psalms and Prayer.

The Psalms and Evil

The idea of evil is discussed in 52% of the Psalms.  The Psalms are honest, raw, and confrontational when it comes to evil.  This sermon looks at how the Psalms prepare us to live in this world with all that is wrong in it.

Discover Your Spiritual Type

Uzzah, David, and Michal serve as good example of people whose worship was greatly influenced by attitudes and behaviors that they had.  This sermon takes a look at their lives and how they affected worship.

You resemble who you worship.

This sermon examines Psalm 51 in light of David's sins of adultery and murder and how self-centeredness played a role.  The point of the sermon is how God centeredness takes one's attention away from self.  The Psalms are God centered songs sung by Israel and are good food for the modern day soul struggling with self.

People Who've Prayed the Psalms or NOT

This sermon contrasts the way that Ahaz and David each performed as King. Ahaz was one of the worst kings of Judah, and David, arguably, was the best.  The sermon attempts to identify the differences.

Psalms and the Western Mindset

This sermon takes its text from Psalm 19:1-14 and it looks at how the Psalms keep us focused on God rather than on the other influencers of our Western culture.  

The Risk of Human Accountability

This sermon takes its text from 1 Samuel 14:1-15.  Jonathan, the son of King Saul, once told his armor bearer that "perhaps" God would bless their endeavor to attempt defeating a garrison of Philistine soldiers.  The sermon looks at how Jonathan took personal initiative and accountability and turned the rest over to God.  This is a sermon about being initiating and accountable people.