“Tell them, Pastor Ray, tell them that nothing matters except Christ. The young people need to know this before it’s […]
Text: Jeremiah 9:23-24God’s love will never end because it depends on him, not on us.
Text: 1 John 4:8“Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good.” 1 Chronicles 16:34a “The Lord is good to all; he has […]
Text: Psalm 107:1Sometimes the title tells the whole story. My sermon today is about the wrath of God. It is truly a […]
Text: Romans 1:18-20This is the third and final sermon on the “omni” attributes of God. I have remarked earlier that these attributes […]
Text: Jeremiah 32:17The scene: A young boy and his mother are having a serious discussion over lunch one day. “Where is God?” […]
Text: Psalm 139:7-12The sovereignty of God is a mysterious doctrine because it brings us face to face with the problem of evil and free will. If God is sovereign, why is there evil in the universe? If man has free will, how can God be sovereign? Christians have debated these questions for centuries. Suffice it to say that God is sovereign and you are truly responsible for all the choices you make. Often we won’t understand how they work together, but they do. When we embrace this truth, we have the true freedom—and peace that comes with it—to stop trying to be God and let Him direct our lives.
Text: Daniel 4Before we can understand what it means to be holy, we must understand what it means to say that God is holy. In many ways holiness is God’s central attribute. One writer actually defines it this way. “Holiness is that which makes God God.” Dr. Renald Showers calls it “the foundational truth of revelation.”
Text: Isaiah 6As this is the first Sunday of a new year, it is an appropriate moment to begin a new sermon […]
Text: Jeremiah 24:7; John 17:3; Ephesians 1:17; 2 Thessalonians 1:8One of the many important decisions confronting new parents is, “What shall we call our baby?” Most new parents spend […]
Text: Isaiah 9:6