Sermons on Priorities
September 24, Sunday Service of Worship
Preaching Passage: Revelation 3:14-22
The Kingdom of God Comes First (Haggai 1:1-15)
Fully Surrendered Faith (Genesis 22:1-24)
“God demands faith fully surrendered, willing to forfeit everything to trust and obey.” Dr. Jordan Neil Rogers (preaching on Genesis 22) Genesis chapter 22, a chapter of which you are all generally familiar, challenges our notions regarding faith, as God asks Abraham to offer up his very own son Isaac, as a sacrifice. Faith is often short-changed, not given its full due.…
A Misplaced Priority and an Eternal Rejection (Luke 14:15-24)
In this passage, a man refuses to accept Jesus’ hard words that only the humble will sit at the eternal Kingdom table with Jesus. He assumes that he will be an honored guest at the table. But Jesus says that people like him will not enter because they have in fact rejected the dinner…