Courageous Faith: The Battle is the Lord’s Text: 1 Sam. 17:4-11, 40-47 David is able to confidently battle the giant precisely because he knows that the battle does not belong…
Courageous Faith: Trusting God Over Tools and Techniques Text: 1 Samuel 17:31-40 Are any of you control freaks? How do you feel when something important needs to happen, or…
Courageous Faith: Godly Disregard for Resentful Peers Text: 1 Samuel 17:1-30 Who Doesn’t Love the Story of David and Goliath? David is one of the most popular characters in children’s…
The Express Image of the Father Text– Hebrews 1:1-3 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these…
And the Word Was God Text: John 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with…
The Gospel of Christmas Text: Luke 2:1-20 Luke’s picture of the birth of Jesus is a study in opposites. On the one hand it is a glorious announcement about the…
The Meaning of the Magnificat Text: Luke 1:46-55 And Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord, And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior. For He has regarded the…
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Advent As some of you have learned, my wife is a real stickler about not playing Christmas music before Thanksgiving. As it happens,…
The Mountain of God and the Vision of Glory Text: Ex. 24:9-18 Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and they saw…
Text: Ex. 17:8-16 Now Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. And Moses said to Joshua, “Choose us some men and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand…