Sermons

​ “Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.”
-- Acts 2:36

Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
-- 1 John 4:11-12

We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up. Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.
-- Romans 15:1-2, 7

​​But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
-- 1 Corinthians 15:20

​Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
-- Genesis 1:26-27

Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, The power, and the glory, forever and ever.
Amen.
-- Matthew 6:9-13

For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
-- 2 Corinthians 6:16

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
-- Galatians 5:22-23

​​But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
-- 1 Peter 2:9-10

​​If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.
-- Romans 8:11

​​When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in the fields. Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest heaven!”
-- Mark 11:7-10

​​From there he went all over Galilee. He used synagogues for meeting places and taught
people the truth of God. God’s kingdom was his theme—that beginning right now they were
under God’s government, a good government! He also healed people of their diseases and
of the bad effects of their bad lives.
-- Matthew 4:23 (MSG)

​​But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
-- 2 Corinthians 12:9-10

​Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
-- James 1:22

​​Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
-- Matthew 6:20-21

​​Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.
-- Deuteronomy 7:9

​If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
-- Romans 8:31-32

​You save the humble, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low.
-- 2 Samuel 22:28

​Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.
-- 1 John 3:8

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.
-- John 10:27-28 27