Sermons on Loving God
Matthew 24:1-14 (Faithfulness in the End)
Jesus gives a clarion call to proclaim the gospel of the Kingdom, a Kingdom without end, to the whole world, as a testimony of Jesus to every nation. And so, the return of the King awaits nothing more than the preaching of the gospel to the ends of the earth. Peter concludes that any perceived delay in the Messiah’s returns happens only for the sake of the redeemed, that…
Receiving the Lord in Generous Hospitality (Genesis 18:1-15)
What we see in this section is that: Divine hospitality yields divine reassurance of God’s promises. The Lord graciously reaffirms his promises to the righteous until he brings them to completion and hospitality is a means by which we place ourselves in relational proximity to converse with God and…
From Darkness, Light (Luke 23:44-49)
And how wondrous the love and salvation of God. That He, knowing humanity couldn’t come near to Him, lest they die, knowing they couldn’t be far from him, lest they die, eagerly desired for them to know him. To love him. To be loved by him. To know the fulness of what a relationship with the Living God could be. And was willing to die the most horrific and ignominious…
The One Who Showed Mercy (Luke 10:25-37)
In this so-called parable of the “Good Samaritan”, Jesus drives a knife into our sense of self-righteousness. Ultimately, Jesus shows us that we are not “good” people and that we all are in need of mercy. Only then are we truly able to begin to fulfill the law of love, to be a neighbor to anyone in need, even our enemies.
