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Pentecost Spirit of Power
A sermon on Acts 2:1-21 [for an audio recording of this sermon, click here; Photo by Maxim Tajer on Unsplash] I want to invite you to imagine what it must have been like to come upon the scene of the Spirit of God descending upon the first believers. The noise is what you would have noticed first. The violent, bone-shaking sound of a rushing wind unlike any you had ever experienced before. The creak of timbers and stone as the walls of the house shook with the power of God’s
A Blessing for Witnesses
A sermon on Luke 24:44-53 [for an audio recording of this sermon, click here; photo by James Coleman on Unsplash] Today we celebrate the Ascension of Christ – the day, 50 days after his resurrection, when Christ left this physical world, until such time as he will come again. I’m just gonna say it: there are a few things that make this celebration a little difficult to really get into. For one thing, it’s hard to imagine it. Did he just start floating away while he was talkin
You Are Not Alone
A sermon on John 14:15-21 [for an audio recording of this sermon, click here; Photo by bhuvanesh gupta on Unsplash] You are not alone. If you remember nothing else from my sermon, or from our worship today, I want you to remember that. Jesus has promised: “you are not alone.” Jesus made this promise to his followers when they were feeling desperate, anxious, and grieved – just as many of us probably are today. It was Jesus’s last night with his friends, and he had told them t
The Rest of the Story
A sermon on Acts 7:55-60 and John 14:1-14 (for an audio recording of this sermon, click here; photo credit: Patrick Hendry on Unsplash) When I was a child, my parents used to listen to Paul Harvey’s “The Rest of the Story.” The premise of the broadcast segments – which proposed to reveal the hidden, or unknown back-story of familiar people, incidents, or phenomena – was alluring even to an 8-year-old. There was more to know than first appeared! It was a formula designed to dr
