Sermons

2 Corinthians 5:1-21 (watch here: https://youtu.be/MOClEA-n3Us) For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling— if indeed, when we have taken it off we will not be found naked. For while we are still in this tent, we groan under our burden, because we wish not to be unclothed but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very [...]

2 Corinthians 4:1-18 (watch here: https://youtu.be/aEOwtnRF6zs) Therefore, since it is by God’s mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart. We have renounced the shameful things that one hides; we refuse to practice cunning or to falsify God’s word; but by the open statement of the truth we commend ourselves to the conscience of everyone in the sight of God. And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the [...]

2 Corinthians 2:1-10 (watch here: https://youtu.be/PI-qAGv8G5M) So I made up my mind not to make you another painful visit. For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? And I wrote as I did, so that when I came, I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice; for I am confident about all of you, that my joy would be the joy of all of you. For I wrote to you out of much distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain, but to let [...]

2 Corinthians 1:1-11 (watch here: https://youtu.be/tH72dGdHGmE) Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is in Corinth, including all the saints throughout Achaia: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation, who consoles us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to console those who are in any affliction with the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God. For just as the [...]

Job 41:1-8; 42:1-17 (watch here: https://youtu.be/E0tcdu6Oric) [The Lord said,] ‘Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish-hook,    or press down its tongue with a cord? Can you put a rope in its nose,    or pierce its jaw with a hook? Will it make many supplications to you?    Will it speak soft words to you? Will it make a covenant with you    to be taken as your servant for ever? Will you play with it as with a bird,    or will you put it on a leash for your girls? Will traders bargain over it?    Will they divide it up among the merchants? Can you fill its skin [...]

Job 31:35-37; 38:1-11, 25-27 (watch here: https://youtu.be/_E6dKJAv_xY) O that I had one to hear me!    (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!)    O that I had the indictment written by my adversary! Surely I would carry it on my shoulder;    I would bind it on me like a crown; I would give him an account of all my steps;    like a prince I would approach him.   Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: ‘Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up your loins like a man,    I will question you, and you shall declare to me. ‘Where were [...]

Job 14:7-15; 19:23-27 (watch here: https://youtu.be/3qO0kKOKBDI) ‘For there is hope for a tree,    if it is cut down, that it will sprout again,    and that its shoots will not cease. Though its root grows old in the earth,    and its stump dies in the ground, yet at the scent of water it will bud    and put forth branches like a young plant. But mortals die, and are laid low;    humans expire, and where are they? As waters fail from a lake,    and a river wastes away and dries up, so mortals lie down and do not rise again;    until the heavens are no more, they will not [...]

Job 3:1-10; 4:1-9; 7:11-21 (watch here: https://youtu.be/m1x2rf7FBkE) After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. Job said: ‘Let the day perish on which I was born,    and the night that said,    “A man-child is conceived.” Let that day be darkness!    May God above not seek it,    or light shine on it. Let gloom and deep darkness claim it.    Let clouds settle upon it;    let the blackness of the day terrify it. That night—let thick darkness seize it!    let it not rejoice among the days of the year;    let it not come into the number of the months. Yes, let that night be [...]

Job 1:1-22 (watch here: https://youtu.be/mnnAUhH2E2k) There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and very many servants; so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. His sons used to go and hold feasts in one another’s houses in turn; and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. [...]

Acts 2:1-4; 1 Corinthians 12:1-13 (watch here: https://youtu.be/2jTMZdytApg) When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans, [...]

1 Corinthians 15:1-26, 51-57 (watch here: https://youtu.be/8JQFvMSLIPQ) Now I should remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand, through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you—unless you have come to believe in vain. For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and [...]

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 (watch here: https://youtu.be/LzvZ2__Zg8k) If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our reading for this morning reminds me of the one about a husband and wife who [...]