SERMON NOTES July 13, 2008 (Click "Read More")

Note: This sermon includes Praise Team intro and singing of Face to Face and testimonies from our students who went to MFUGE in Philadelphia, PA.  These are not included in the 8:45 version also on this blog.  Thanks!

SERMON NOTES July 27, 2008 (Click "Read More")

“Facing Uncertainties” – John 9:1-12

This sermon was preached on Vacation Bible School Sunday as we celebrated this year's VBS at New Highland.  Kim Gunn's VBS report is found in her podcast of July 13.  Enjoy!

Parents have lots of hopes and dreams for their children. Generally, they wish that their children will succeed in life and experience success. I hope that my daughter will grow up to be happy and contented with her life and that she will love God with all her heart, and with all her soul and with all her strength (see Deuteronomy 6:5, the Shema). I sense in our text for today that God is a God who desperately desires for his children to love him and obey him. God tells Moses in 5:29, “If only they [this people] had such a mind as this, to fear me and to keep all my commandments always, so that it might go well with them and with their children forever!” (NRSV). And realizing that the Israelites would not keep their end of the covenant, God told them to return to their tents. He would continue to speak to them through Moses, God’s sole mediator to the people.

Peter is addressing the Christians who were scattered about the Roman Empire. In chapter one he writes that they are strangers in the world who have been “chosen for obedience” (1:2). Throughout the letter Peter encourages the believers to set themselves apart in holiness, to submit to governmental authorities, and the be willing to suffer even if it is suffering for doing good (

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We continue the narrative of Noah and his family as people whom God chose to save from the judgment of the flood. Noah was obedient in following God. Genesis 6:9 reports that “Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.” So God told Noah to make an ark which wo

Today’s passage tells us about an obscure prophet named Uriah. The notes in my study Bible report that his name does not appear anywhere else in the Old Testament. While there are only four verses that deal with his life as a prophet, we glean much about his call of God. Uriah was a man who prophesied in the name of the Lord. There’s no question of his obedience to the God of Israel. The text also reports how he prophesied: against Jerusalem and Judah “as

This is the narrative of God’s call of Moses.