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Sermons on Psalms
We talk about the relief that the disciples feel when Jesus calms the storm, and we talk about that same feeling in our lives.
We consider the unfair systems in our world and consider how Jesus has treated us unfairly….and how His unfair treatment of us is actually a good thing.
We celebrate Palm and Passion Sunday, beginning Holy Week as we talk about how Jesus was broken so that we could be raised imperishable. Deuteronomy 32: 36-39 | Psalm 31: 9-16 | Philippians 2: 5-11 | Luke 23
We begin our observation of the season of Lent with Ash Wednesday talking about our fear of separation. Joel 2: 12-19 | Psalm 51: 1-19 | 2 Corinthians 5: 20 – 6: 10 | Matthew 6: 1-6, 16-21
We continue our series on the “Signs of Life” by talking about movement and how Jesus as our good shepherd moves us for our good. Sermon Scripture: Psalm 23 The LORD Is My Shepherd A Psalm of David. [1] The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. [2] He makes me lie down in green…
About Easter: Our celebration of Easter begins with the Psalmists’ words “Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous!” and continues with the themes of steadfast love from Good Friday, proclaiming that we shall not die but we shall live! As we recount the story of Jesus’ passion anew in Psalm 118,…
About Palm Sunday: Palm Sunday is now concurrent with the celebration of the Sunday of the Passion (these used to be two separate liturgical celebrations). As such, the story is not only of Jesus’ triumphant entrance into Jerusalem, but is also concerned with the entire Passion (Suffering) of Jesus. We open the series in the…
About the Second Sunday in Lent: Most of us would say that we understand the “New Covenant” of the New Testament books and how Jesus saves us, but often we find that we are uninterested in the Old Covenant given to Abraham and how that forms and shapes our rejoicing. As we look to Jesus…
Some love songs are just about our praise to our beloved. Love songs that describe the attributes of the beloved are often this way. We hear “the way your blue eyes sparkle” and we think of the way that our lover’s green eyes sparkle. Pslam 96 engages in this kind of love song showing attributes…
It’s hard to get around the familiarity we all have with Psalm 23 and view it in a new light, but that the first lines of the Psalm, “…I shall not want…” reveal a similarity to love songs that talk about how the sun and the moon rise and set and the lover may be…