“COME BACK FOR US, JESUS” SELECTED SCRIPTURES I. Introduction Christmas is behind us. We’ve celebrated the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ for the last four Sundays and once again in a wonderful Christmas Eve service last Monday evening. During that time our children and young people have read Scripture and lighted advent candles. Many […]
“HE MAKES IT LIKE IT NEVER HAPPENED” SELECTED SCRIPTURES I. Introduction Finally! It’s Christmas Eve. We made it. It seems like it’s been a long time since Thanksgiving, doesn’t it? Actually it has been a long time since Thanksgiving. 2012 is one of those years with five weekends in between Thanksgiving and Christmas instead of […]
“DO YOU HAVE ROOM FOR JESUS?” SELECTED SCRIPTURES I. Introduction NO VACANCY! Before I was ordained to the pastorate I spent over thirty years in industrial sales. I began traveling for a living in September of 1973. One of the first things I learned was that arriving in a strange city without a hotel reservation […]
“GO TELL IT!” SELECTED SCRIPTURES I. Introduction The children have already told us: Go tell it! The Botsch’s have read about the shep-herds from Luke’s gospel and what they heard from the angels who proclaimed Jesus’ birth. We’ve sung about those angels and the message they brought with them from the “realms of glory.” John […]
“A WARNING AND A PROMISE” LUKE 11:14-28 I. Introduction “Who is this Jesus? Who is He, really?” Every Bible-believing Christian knows the answer to that question. He is the Son of God, the second person of the Holy Trinity, fully God and fully man, Lord of all, and Savior of those who have repented of […]