Category: Sermons

The soldiers who carried out the crucifixion had done this work many times before. They were hardened men doing a job they had done again and again, and nothing about…

There is a particular kind of morning that changes everything. The alarm clock a mother once set falls silent. The pew a family sat in together every Sunday sits empty.…

A congregation is not built in a weekend. The work God has given the local church stretches across generations, from the evangelist teaching the Bible in someone’s living room to…

For several weeks now this congregation has been turning the same question over from different angles. We have heard about the impact evangelism has on people, how and why it…

On the first Sunday in a new building, it would have been easy to make the morning about the walls and the windows. Instead the congregation was reminded of something…

A new building is a milestone worth celebrating, and this one has been a long time in the making. Yet the walls, the acoustics, and the fresh paint are not…

Most of us would say we believe in forgiveness. We know the general idea — Christians forgive. But there is a wide gap between thinking forgiveness is a nice thing…

Nobody drifts into disaster on purpose. It happens gradually — one duty left undone, one season of spiritual idleness that stretches a little too long. The life of David is…

The instinctive answer is no — God can help anyone. That answer is comforting, and it is also incomplete. The question this morning is not whether God won’t help someone.…

Most of us learned the same little hand rhyme as kids — “here’s the church, here’s the steeple, open it up and see all the people.” There is more theology…