Sermons

Isaiah 55:1-13 (sermon note: 12-12 sermon note) Ho, everyone who thirsts,    come to the waters; and you that have no money,    come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk    without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,    and your labour for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good,    and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me;    listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant,    my steadfast, sure love for David. See, I made him a witness to the peoples, [...]

Ezekiel 37:1-14 (sermon note: 12-05 sermon note) The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me all round them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. He said to me, ‘Mortal, can these bones live?’ I answered, ‘O Lord God, you know.’ Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I [...]

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-14 (sermon note: 11-28 sermon note) These are the words of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the remaining elders among the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may [...]

Isaiah 9:1-7 (sermon note: 11-21 sermon note) But there will be no gloom for those who were in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he will make glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. The people who walked in darkness    have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness—    on them light has shined. You have multiplied the nation,    you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you    as with joy at the harvest,    as people exult [...]

Amos 1:1-2; 5:14-15, 21-24 (sermon note: 11-14 sermon note) The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of King Uzziah of Judah and in the days of King Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel, two years before the earthquake. And he said: The Lord roars from Zion,    and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds wither,    and the top of Carmel dries up. Seek good and not evil,    that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you,    just as you have said. Hate evil and love [...]

1 Kings 5:1-5; 8:1-13 (sermon note: 10-31 sermon note) Now King Hiram of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father; for Hiram had always been a friend to David. Solomon sent word to Hiram, saying, ‘You know that my father David could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet. But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary nor misfortune. [...]

Sorry, everyone, my home got hit with COVID this week so we're in a 10-day quarantine. Please hold us in your prayers. Be sure to check out the service on our Facebook page. Thank you, Pastor Ron Becklund, for leading service today.

1 Samuel 3:1-21 (sermon note: 10-17 sermon note) Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. The word of the Lord was rare in those days; visions were not widespread. At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his room; the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was. Then the Lord called, ‘Samuel! Samuel!’ and he said, ‘Here I am!’ and ran to Eli, and said, ‘Here I am, for you called me.’ [...]

Exodus 16:1-18 (sermon note: 10-10 sermon note) The whole congregation of the Israelites set out from Elim; and Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. The Israelites said to them, ‘If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate our fill of bread; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this [...]

Exodus 2:23-25; 3:1-15; 4:10-17 (sermon note: 10-03 sermon note) After a long time the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery, and cried out. Out of the slavery their cry for help rose up to God. God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God looked upon the Israelites, and God took notice of them. Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out [...]

Genesis 27:1-4, 15-23; 28:10-17 (sermon note: 09-26 sermon note) When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called his elder son Esau and said to him, ‘My son’; and he answered, ‘Here I am.’ He said, ‘See, I am old; I do not know the day of my death. Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and hunt game for me. Then prepare for me savory food, such as I like, and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.’ Then Rebekah took [...]

Genesis 21:1-3; 22:1-14 (sermon note: 09-19 sermon note) The Lord dealt with Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had promised. Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the time of which God had spoken to him. Abraham gave the name Isaac to his son whom Sarah bore him. After these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, ‘Abraham!’ And he said, ‘Here I am.’ He said, ‘Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt-offering on one of the [...]