Category: Expository Sermons
Acts 10:1 – 11:16 Cornelius
Sometimes (not often) there will be an event or a flash of insight that changes forever the way we view things. This is often called a ‘paradigm shift’. My attitude toward crying babies on an airplane was very different after we had children than it was before. I feel tenderness, not annoyance, toward the babies…
Acts 9:1-31 Conversion of Saul
Chapter 9 picks up the story from the beginning of chapter 8. There Stephen has just been stoned to death by a furious mob. Saul, who was present, gave his sanction to the deed. And then we read, And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were…
Acts 8:26-40
This is a true story. It is about a man who was prompted by God to initiate a conversation with a stranger .This man really felt strongly that God wanted him to go down to the pier. ‘All right. I’m not sure why, but ok.’ He goes down to the pier, and God doesn’t ‘say’…
Mark 4:21-25
This past Tuesday I came into the office fairly early in the morning. As I walked from the door toward my office, it was dark inside. No problem. It’s a wide passage, one I’m familiar with, so I don’t feel the need to walk carefully. Only on this Tuesday, some cabinets were going to be…
Mark 3:20-35
There are only three possible responses to the question of who Jesus is: Either Jesus was crazy, or he was evil, or he was – and is – the son of God. Consider Eric: Eric came from a little village to the city about a year ago. He began attending various churches from week to…
The privilege of adoption
Jesus once told a story about a man who discovered a treasure in a field and sold all he had to buy the field. Ephesians 1 is a ‘treasure’ and we will do well to do whatever it takes to ‘buy’ the field, that is, to understand, apply, and enrich our relationship with God. Ephesians…
Acts 6:8-7:60 Martyrdom of Stephen
A Christian speaker talked about his own journey as a former avowed atheist. At one time he considered the basic claims of Christianity untrue, but in looking at the evidence for the life and resurrection of Jesus, and for the authenticity of the Biblical writings, he became convinced that Christianity is ‘true’. OK. But what…