Sermons from June 2025
Promised Land Perspective over Perishable Pleasures
Genesis 25:29-34 NKJV Now Jacob cooked a stew; and Esau came in from the field, and he was weary. (30) And Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am weary.” Therefore his name was called Edom. (31) But Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright as of this day.” (32) And Esau said, “Look, I am about to die; so what is this birthright to me?” (33) Then Jacob said, “Swear to me as…
The Paradox of Pain and Promise
Genesis 25:21-28 NKJV Now Isaac pleaded with the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived. (22) But the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If all is well, why am I like this?” So she went to inquire of the LORD. (23) And the LORD said to her: “Two nations are in your womb, Two peoples shall be separated from your body; One people shall be…
The Power of Persistent, Pleading Prayer
Genesis 25:19-26 NKJV This is the genealogy of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham begot Isaac. (20) Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah as wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian. (21) Now Isaac pleaded with the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived. (22) But the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If all is…
Don’t Cheat the Process
1 Timothy 4:6-16If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a goodminister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of thegood doctrine which you have carefully followed. But rejectprofane and old wives’ fables and exercise yourself towardsgodliness. For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness isprofitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is andof that which is to come. This is a faithful saying and worthy of allacceptance. For to…
Blessed in the Background
Genesis 25:1-18 NKJV Abraham again took a wife, and her name was Keturah. (2) And she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. (3) Jokshan begot Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. (4) And the sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. (5) And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac. (6) But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of…
Listen to the Holy Spirit
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Do You Have the Time?
James 4:13-17 (NKJV) 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow [h]we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” 16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 Therefore, to him who knows…