Jesus made it clear that while sexual integrity is expressed through the body, it’s rooted in the mind. But aligning our thoughts with God’s thoughts isn’t always easy. Illicit sexual thoughts don’t need to have free rein in your mind. The Bible provides an arsenal of weapons to win...
While many of us may be OK with the idea of the big bang simply starting everything, physicists,including Hawking, tend to shy away from cosmic genesis. “A point of creation would be a place where science broke down. One would have to appeal to religion and the hand of God,” Hawking...
Are those who advanced armed hiding behind women and children the children of God? With God’s help, you must kill the Germans, good or bad, young or old. Kill every one of them so that it won’t have to be done again.” The sermon is chilling and had it not been edited by the...
God is present in your wilderness, and you were made in His image. Quiet yourself in God’s creation. Or, as Oscar Wilde said: “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” “And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.” –Mark 1:13 Standard Life...
Mikey is a friend, and his organization defended me when one of my retired parishioners at my old chapel attempted to have me tried by Court Martial for a sermon that I preached, in which he made bold faced lies about what I said. But the command conducted an investigation and I lawyer...
At the end of the concert, I gave a short, unpremeditated “sermon” and an invitation for those present to receive Christ. The Spirit of revival seemed to fall and forty-something people came forward, many of them weeping. We had never seen such a thing in that church in the years ...
“To repent is to adopt God’s viewpoint in place of your own… In itself, far from being sorrowful, it is the most joyful thing in the world, because when you have done it you have adopted the viewpoint of truth itself and you are in fellowship with God.” (William Temple, Archbis...
Keller, The Timothy Keller Sermon Archive (New York City: Redeemer Presbyterian Church, 2013). Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a reply Running to Win- Being Thankful Posted on November 24, 2024 Running to Win- Be Thankful, Take time to Give Thanks Prepared and preached by Pastor Steve ...
Somehow the interleaving of “I am lying here staring at a snail” with “here’s what Victorians had to say about snails” was particularly delightful. There’s every temptation for this to turn into a cheesy sermon on living in the moment and smelling the flowers. Thankfully the author...
Had he read the New Testament where Jesus corrects and updates our notions of God, he might have noticed in the Sermon on the Mount this direct dismissal of the Hebrew commandment. “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you...