Sermons from January 2024

I Want to Reduce Stress

About this sermon series Matthew 7:6 “Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.  For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.  9  Is there anyone among you who, if your child asked for bread, would give a stone?  10  Or if the child asked for a fish, would give a snake?  11  If…

I Want To Make Better Use Of My Time

About this sermon series Matthew 7:6 “Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they willtrample them under foot and turn and maul you.”Let us pray. May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable inyour sight, O Lord, our rock and our redeemer. Amen.A stunning privilege, or perhaps occupational hazard, of being a pastor is how many daysare spent near the cliff edge of life.…

Becoming A Better Listener

About this sermon series 1 Samuel 3:1-10 Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. The word of the Lord was rare in those days; visions were not widespread. At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his room; the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was. Then…

I Want To Be More Spiritual

About this sermon series Acts 19: 1-7 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul passed through the interior regions and came to Ephesus, where he found some disciples. He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?” They replied, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” Then he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They answered, “Into John’s baptism.” Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the…