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Show Me Your Glory - Exodus 33:18 - Mar 8, 2004 - 556
"Then Moses said, ‘Now show me your glory’” (Exodus 33:18).Charles Spurgeon calls this the greatest request a man ever made of God. I think he is right. How could Moses have asked for anything larger? To see God’s glory is to see God himself. It was as if Moses is saying, &ld ... More
Living on a Spiritual Plateau–Part 1 - 2 Corinthians 3:18 - Mar 6, 2010 - 1240
Recently I was invited to speak on the theme of living on a spiritual plateau. The pastors and elders asked me to address the following three topics: 1. Why does God allow us to plateau in our Spiritual life? 2. How does He use this to our benefit and His glory? 3. How does He get us out/off of th ... More
Father, Forgive Them - Mar 30, 2007
Here is part of an email from a friend:Do you have any suggestions for getting rid of bitterness? What do you do when you are dealing with a situation where you cannot go to the person and discuss the issue with them? Of course, we both know that that is the ideal way to handle a situation, but we a ... More
Will Everyone Eventually Be Saved? - II Peter 3:9 - Jul 24, 2005 - 143
I can think of only four ways to answer the question raised in the title of this sermon:1) Everyone will eventually be saved.2) No one will eventually be saved.3) Some will be saved and some will be lost.4) There is no way to know.Let’s consider answer #1, which is becoming increasingly popula ... More
Dear Sarah: A Letter About Forgiveness at Christmastime - Dec 14, 2006
(A few days ago I received a letter that took over a month to finally reach me. It came from someone I have never met. Because of the unusual nature of the letter, I began to think about the question, “What does forgiveness mean at Christmastime?” This week’s message is actually th ... More
Out of Control - Judges 14 - Feb 18, 1990 - 516
It’s been a tough week for Donald Trump. He’s the billionaire developer and deal-maker from New York City who is leaving his wife, Ivana. Since the news broke last Sunday, the story has been on the front page of virtually every newspaper in America. Just this morning, the Chicago Sun- ... More
God Is So Good! - Psalm 107:1 - Apr 20, 1997 - 474
"Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good.” 1 Chronicles 16:34a “The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.” Psalm 145:9 “Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.” Psalm 34:8 Let’s begin with a definition, ... More
Great Is Thy Faithfulness - Lamentations 3:22-25 - Mar 23, 1997 - 471
How many people do you know who do exactly what they say? Before you answer, let me rephrase the question? How many do you know who do exactly what they say every single time? Now before you answer, let me rephrase it again. How many people do you know who do exactly what they say every single time ... More
The Positive Power of Forgiveness: “I Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins” - Psalm 130:3-4 - Jun 13, 2004 - 659
If you know a bit about church history, you know that before Martin Luther became the father of the Protestant Reformation, he was a Catholic priest. As part of his training, he spent years studying Greek, Hebrew, Latin, the church fathers, and the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. By all accou ... More
Now I See - 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:6 - Feb 19, 2010 - 1239
This time Christopher Hitchens got it exactly right. During a recent trip to Portland, Oregon, noted atheist Christopher Hitchens laid down some seriously good theology. Most people recognize Hitchens as the author of the bestselling book God is Not Great: Why Religion Poisons Everything. Since the ... More
Never Be Surprised by Hard Times - 1 Peter 4:12-19 - Apr 24, 2005 - 603
I begin with the words of British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, from an interview with William F. Buckley: “As an old man, looking back on one’s life, it’s one of the things that strikes you most forcibly—that the only thing that’s taught one anything is suffering. Not ... More
We’re Just Like Jonah - Jonah 1 - Jun 3, 2011 - 1286
Is there a better story in the Bible than the story of Jonah? Generations of Sunday School children have listened with wide-eyed amazement at the story of the fish that caught a man. We love this story, yet for all our telling and re-telling, we barely understand what it means. With this message we ... More
Will the Real Sinner Please Stand Up? - Jonah 4 - Jul 25, 2011 - 1291
You just can’t please some people. We love happy endings and fairy tales and stories where the good guys win, the bad guys lose, and the poor young man wins the hand of the beautiful maiden he has rescued. It reminds me of the immortal words of Hannibal Smith, leader of the A-Team, who w ... More
The Lord Who is Faithful - Deuteronomy 7:9 - May 23, 1999 - 680
Today we are beginning a new sermon series entitled “The God You Can Trust.” For the next six Sundays we will be looking at what the Bible says about the faithfulness of God. In order to orient our thinking in the right direction, here are five Scriptures that introduce the topic: Exodus ... More
