Why Do You Stand Looking Up?

by | May 4, 2008 | Uncategorized

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, May 4, 2008    Luke 24: 44-53 and Acts 1: 3-14 There are two Ascension stories, and Luke tells both of them. One in the last chapter of Luke, the other in the first chapter of Acts. How shall we account...

See Inside for More

by | Apr 6, 2008 | Uncategorized

download a PDF of this text listen to this sermon Texts on Sunday, April 6, 2008     Isaiah 6: 6-13; Luke 24: 13-35 Those first disciples are pretty happy about Jesus’ resurrection. The early church is pretty happy about resurrection. Maybe your church is resurrection...

Them

by | Mar 21, 2008 | Uncategorized

download a PDF of this text Text on Good Friday, March 21, 2008Luke 23: 32-38 “Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.”—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr In the words you have just heard, up to that perfect benediction, “Father, forgive them . . . ”...

Cross Now

by | Sep 30, 2007 | Uncategorized

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, September 30, 2007Colossians 3: 1-11; Jeremiah 32: 1-15 Some from my church will recognize the phrase, “the sine-wave method of teaching the Older Testament.” I use this method in my classes to help...

The Jesus Game

by | Sep 16, 2007 | Uncategorized

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, September 16, 2007Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18; Luke 10: 25-42 “I wish to create around myself conditions in which a man would be continually reminded of the sense and aim of his existence by an...