My guess is that most of you don’t pay much attention to who wrote the songs that we sing every Sunday morning, but I want to tell you a little bit about one of the hymnwriters. Her name is Fanny Crosby and Fanny is thought by some to be the greatest hymnwriter in the history…
Shaped BY the cross into the shape OF the cross
Sermons from July 2023
Weekly World News is a tabloid newspaper, not exactly known for telling the truth. But, in November 1985, they reported that there was a wealthy couple in Switzerland who got into an argument when the husband cancelled a vacation. His wife expressed her disappointment by pouring baking soda into her husband’s fish tank, killing his…
In Acts 17, Paul and Silas were preaching about Jesus in Thessalonica and they were having some degree of success, so some of the Jews got angry and they formed a mob to drag them out and deal with them. Verse 6 tells us, “And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and…
Throughout the history of Christianity, we have talked about the subject of eternal punishment. And, a lot of times, we have used hell as a way to get people to do what we wanted them to do, to control people’s behavior. We even refer to sermons like that as “hellfire and brimstone”. And my…
I want to begin this morning by asking a question — What do you think is the primary goal in life for most Christians? What is it that Christians want to achieve more than anything else? And I think you probably would agree with my assessment that, for most Christians, the primary goal in…
