Sermons

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 [...]

Acts 18:1-4; 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 (watch here: https://youtu.be/v4XZiSdwVcI) After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them, and, because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them, and they worked together—by trade they were tentmakers. Every sabbath he would argue in the synagogue and would try to convince Jews and Greeks.   Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all [...]

Acts 17:1-9; 1 Thess. 1:1-10 (watch here: https://youtu.be/9_oLBk4LvUc) After Paul and Silas had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three sabbath days argued with them from the scriptures, explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Messiah to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, ‘This is the Messiah, Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you.’ Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women. [...]

Acts 3:1-10 (watch here: https://youtu.be/NdooEYxJqyw) One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, at three o’clock in the afternoon. And a man lame from birth was being carried in. People would lay him daily at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask for alms from those entering the temple. When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked them for alms. Peter looked intently at him, as did John, and said, ‘Look at us.’ And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them. [...]

Acts 1:1-14 (watch here: https://youtu.be/m0WpzTgYGRI) In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. After his suffering he presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over the course of forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. While staying with them, he ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the promise of the Father. ‘This’, he said, ‘is what you have heard from me; for [...]

Mark 16:1-8 (watch here: https://youtu.be/s7rpbCPhmnc) When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. They had been saying to one another, ‘Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?’ When they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had already been rolled back. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man, dressed in a white robe, sitting on the [...]