Sometimes I wonder how God felt about that whole flooding-of-the-earth deal. How necessary! How awful! How terrible! How incredibly sad! Genesis 6: 5 The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD was […]
One of the more intriguing concepts in the Bible is that God kept His promise to us by being both the Good Shepherd and the Lamb of God sacrificed for us. Frankly, God was thoroughly ticked off at us. Especially at ministry leaders. They didn’t really have a clue how mad God was. They were […]
Wow, can you believe it? It’s the last of our sermon series on the Book of Acts, but the end is actually a beginning. It’s going to prove to us that the story continues. It continues with you and it continues with me. That’s actually a great thing about stories. Until there’s the two word […]
The Gospel Story Continues with you and me, even after the last chapter of the Book of Acts. Was Luke intentionally vague about the ending to remind us of this truth? This is the final message in the sermon series Acts of the Holy Spirit and the Apostles and is based on Acts 28:11-31. While […]
God keeps His promises. That is one of the most reassuring things one can ever contemplate. In a world in which politicians will say anything to get elected and then their promises get forgotten as convenient political amnesia sets in; our friends, our neighbors, our bosses, or our co-workers will tell us anything and then […]
The Incarnation wasn’t just something decided upon in the Trinity somewhere in the upper atmospheres and then dropped onto us on earth for our benefit. There was something earthly in it for God, too. It was practical and hands-on. It was God’s avenue to being Prophet, Priest, and King…offices of relationship that belong to this […]
In the Incarnation, there was a little insider stuff going on in the Trinity. God was gaining from the Incarnation in another way: In Jesus’ submission to the Father. Some of you may be thinking, “Shut your mouth!” After all, submission of Jesus within the Godhead is one of those hot-button topics in theological circles. It […]
What was in it for God? Why did God do the Incarnation? Did He do it only for us? Romans 5: 6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone […]
Dear friends, as my time as preaching pastor at Plymouth Congregational Church of Racine (WI) winds down, God is moving me into a new volunteer ministry based on Romans 13:10: Romans 13:10 Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. As I ponder why God would have me […]
Imagine for a moment that you created something. You designed it. You planned it. You gave this perfect thing to someone else and they broke it. And they considered it worthless, broken, and nothing but junk to be discarded. Or maybe they decided to worship it. It was a created thing not a god and […]
