Sermons from 2025 (Page 5)

Sermons from 2025 (Page 5)

The Art of the Christian Deal

Genesis 23:4-20 NKJV  “I am a foreigner and a visitor among you. Give me property for a burial place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”  (5)  And the sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,  (6)  “Hear us, my lord: You are a mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places. None of us will withhold from you his burial place, that you may bury your dead.” …

A Time for Mourning and a Time for Rising

Genesis 23:1-4 NKJV  Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.  (2)  So Sarah died in Kirjath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.  (3)  Then Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,  (4)  “I am a foreigner and a visitor among you. Give me property for a burial place…

Grounded in Truth

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The Problem With the Gospel

2 Peter 3:10-13 NKJV  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.  (11)  Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,  (12)  looking for and hastening the coming…

Tests, Triumphs, Types, and Truth: Part Four

Genesis 22:15-24 NKJV  Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time out of heaven,  (16)  and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son—  (17)  blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of…

True Sons and Daughters

1 Timothy 1:1-2 (NKJV) 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ, our hope,2 To Timothy, a true son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.  Tonight, we start our new book of the bible! Not new like we just wrote it, but new to us to go through with a fine-tooth comb and get all the nuggets we can get out of it  Before we…

Tests, Triumphs, Types, and Truth: Part Three

Genesis 22:1-2 NKJV  Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”  (2)  Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” Genesis 22:10-17 NKJV  And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife…

Tests, Triumphs, Types, and Truth: Part 2

Genesis 22:1-2 NKJV  Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”  (2)  Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” Genesis 22:9-17 NKJV  Then they came to the place of which God had…

Tests, Triumphs, Types and Truth: Part 1

Genesis 22:1-12 NKJV  Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”  (2)  Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”  (3)  So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and…

Can People Tell That God is With You? Part 2

Genesis 21:22-34 NKJV  And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech and Phichol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.  (23)  Now therefore, swear to me by God that you will not deal falsely with me, with my offspring, or with my posterity; but that according to the kindness that I have done to you, you will do to me and to the land in which you…

Can People Tell That God is With You? Part 1

Genesis 21:22-34 NKJV  And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech and Phichol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.  (23)  Now therefore, swear to me by God that you will not deal falsely with me, with my offspring, or with my posterity; but that according to the kindness that I have done to you, you will do to me and to the land in which you…