Sermons on Repentance
Responding Rightly to Jesus the Lord (Acts 2:36-40)
Peter urged the men of Israel who participated in the crucifixion of Jesus to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus. Responding rightly to Jesus as Lord and Christ means repenting and being baptized in his name for the forgiveness of sins, effectively orienting one’s life to God through…
The Wise Among the Foolish (Matthew 25:1-13)
Matthew 25:1-13 ESV “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3 For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. 5 As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. 6…
Scheming for What Has Been Promised (Genesis 26:34-28:9)
God’s covenant declarations are not influenced by human schemes and deception. Amidst all this scheming and deceiving, what God declared, came to pass. Because of God’s faithfulness, Jacob received the covenant blessing even as the family faithlessly schemed contrary to God’s declaration It’s as…
Righteous Reception of Messengers of God’s Judgment (Genesis 19:1-22)
The righteous willingly receive God’s messengers of judgment and respond wisely to the message they carry.
Jesus’ Witnesses (Luke 24:44-53)
Luke brings his narrative of the life of Jesus to an end. His conclusion is unmistakable…everyone who has seen and perceived Jesus is His witness. Join us in this last sermon from Luke and walk with us to understand what it means to be one of Jesus’ witnesses.
When the Grace of Jesus Calls to Traitors (Luke 19:1-10)
I find it interesting that the words “hospital” and “hospitality” come from the same Latin root. I think, if we look at the accounts of hospitality in the Bible, we will see that true hospitality means inviting people to a place of holistic nourishment (the hospital part) where people see Christ in…
Entrance Is Through The Narrow Door (Luke 13:22-30)
As Jesus travels along, the people of Israel are having difficulty embracing the words of Jesus. Jesus has been preaching repentance and judgment with the indication that many out of Israel might not be saved. Someone in the crowds asks Jesus if it will really only be a few saved. Jesus responds…
Repent or Perish! (Luke 13:1-9)
In the opening passage from Luke 13, Jesus responds to some in the crowds who thought they were not sinners because others had suffered more. They reasoned that since God is just, those who suffer must be great sinners. However, Jesus reveals this line of reasoning to be false and rooted in self-righteousness. The reality is that each and everyone will perish without…
Hypocrisy Lies Close At Hand (Luke 12:1-12)
Jesus warns his disciples to beware the leaven of the Pharisees, because the temptation to hypocrisy is near. Rather than give in to the temptation to please the crowds, we ought live rightly before God and others, confessing our sins to God and to others that we might be healed.
The Pharisee Within (Luke 11:37-54)
Pharisees are an enigma. No one admits to being one but everybody seems to know who they are. Pharisees are never us, they are always someone else. But Jesus has a unique way of accurately assessing the human heart. We all need to hear the words of Jesus because in the end, perhaps we all have a little Pharisee in us. True repentance, that is, giving away our deepest sin…
