Sermon Media & Review
Genesis 23
- Category: The Book of Genesis
- June 22, 2014
The mourning of the faithful.
Genesis 23 shows Abraham going through the most extreme trial of an aged Christian’s life. He loses his wife Sarah, whom he had been married to for 100 years or more! How Abraham endures this agony is a great lesson to us.
Genesis 22
- Category: The Book of Genesis
- June 15, 2014
The enduring faith and compelling sacrifice of a father.
In God’s providence, the next chapter of Genesis fits perfectly with a Father’s Day theme. The Lord provides for every need of His people’s hearts when preaching through the whole Word of God.
The American evangelical culture can view God as an activity director on a cruise ship. We expect Him to be blessing us every moment, or He is not doing His job. This passage corrects that understanding. Faith is cultivated through trials.
Genesis 21
- Category: The Book of Genesis
- June 8, 2014
A genuine walk of faith rejoices in God’s will, clears obstacles to one’s walk, and evangelizes in one’s world.
There are no more happy people on earth than those who know and do the will of God! God’s will is found as we study His Word. We are responsible to what we know of the Scriptures.
Genesis 20
- Category: The Book of Genesis
- June 1, 2014
Supreme faith waits for God in crisis and the commonplace.
The narrative of Genesis 20 might look familiar, because we saw a similar story in Genesis 12. This is Abram’s second failure to trust God with his wife and his personal safety. Whenever God’s Word repeats itself, there is something for us to learn.
Psalm 16
- Pastor Kent Hobi
- Category: Holidays & Special Services
- May 25, 2014
- Notes
Those who have sacrificed for our freedom know that refuge is a fragile thing.
Psalm 16 gives us a glimpse into the warrior King David’s heart and shows us where he took refuge. David didn’t trust in his army, his people, his power, or his wealth. He knew that God alone is the source of refuge and soul security.
Genesis 19
- Category: The Book of Genesis
- May 19, 2014
When God’s People Live Like the World.
Genesis 19 is a hard chapter to understand. It is often misunderstood and misinterpreted as judgment on one particular sin, but it is not. Rather, it should be read as a sub-narrative in Abraham’s story about how God’s people can slip into living like the world.
Hebrews 11:11-12; Genesis 18
- Category: The Book of Genesis
- May 14, 2014
A Portrait of a Woman’s Persevering Faith.
When you look at a painted portrait of a woman, you often wonder what she was really like. We wonder the same thing with Bible characters. A few verses in Hebrews 11 show us how to interpret Sarah’s story. She was known as a woman of faith.
Sarah is involved differently in all 3 sections of Genesis 18. God’s promises to Sarah and Abraham show what he can do with faithful obedience in simple, singular things.
Genesis 16
- Category: The Book of Genesis
- April 27, 2014
Faith Thrives When We Turn from Sin.
Have you ever acted impulsively and hurt those closest to you? Abram was a godly man of faith, but he still acted out of emotion on occasion. He was given God’s word seven times, yet in this chapter he deflects it and takes his own way.
As Christians, we will never be without sin, but our goal should be to sin less. As we persevere in our walk, like Abram, we will hopefully succeed more than we fail.
Luke 24
- Category: Holidays & Special Services
- April 20, 2014
Walking with the Living Christ.
In Luke 24, our risen Lord shows mercy and patience to two unbelieving yet religious persons. Many in our day also do not understand the full story of Jesus. Religion always either takes away from Jesus or adds to Him. True Christianity believes that Jesus as revealed in the Bible is enough.
Cleopas and his friend had been taught by religion that Jesus would be an earthly king. He will rule on earth in the future, but his first coming was to be our Savior. Their understanding of the Scriptures was incomplete.
Given only part of the story of who Jesus was, these sincere men were left to rely on human reasoning. When Jesus was crucified, they lost hope.
