Category: sermon

Assuming You Know

“John expected cataclysmic change. Prepare yourselves for what’s coming by changing how you think and how you act. Jesus told John’s friends to tell him cataclysmic change has come.”

It’s a Person

“John made decisive promises of what was about to come from heaven, and the community was meant to respond decisively in baptism and change in their thinking and behaving.”

You Know What Time It Is

“Regarding what is to come, a return of our Lord into our world, ‘about that day and hour no one knows, but only the Father.’ So, KEEP AWAKE.” 

In Every Way

“Paul went on in Colossians 1 with praying this “in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way.” He follows that with a four-point list of pleasing the Lord in every way.”

Participate

“One can say they spent a lot of their time AS SPECTATORS. But before the signs of the end are shown, these same disciples PARTICIPATED in the works and words of the Kingdom of God just as Jesus did weeks, months and years before.”

But We Have Hope

“This lesson isn’t merely a confirmation from the lips of Jesus of the existence of the hereafter, and if there is marriage there. It is an illustration of HOPE BEING CHALLENGED.”

All the More

“The beggar couldn’t see, but he shouted ALL THE MORE. Zacchaeus couldn’t see, so he got ALL THE MORE taller. Jesus responds to the ALL THE MORE.”

A Plea for Mercy

“The Pharisee trusts in himself; the tax collector trusts in God: that’s the difference.” 

This Is Always the Question

“The revelation of the Son of Man like lightning is outside of our grasp to control, but our availability to pray and not lose heart IS IN OUR GRASP.”