For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world – our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? [I John 5:4-5] A Rev Gilbert M Beenken once commented, “Other men see only a […]
Hopeless End or Endless Hope – Easter 2 Read More »
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Lo, your King comes to you; triumphant and victorious is He, humble and riding on an ass, on a colt the foal of an ass. … As for you also, because of the Blood of your Covenant, I will set your prisoners free
Prisoners of Hope – Palm Sunday Read More »
Behold, the days are coming, says Jehovah, when I will cut a new Covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah … this is the Covenant that I will cut with the house of Israel after those days, says Jehovah: I will put My teachings [TORAH] in their inward parts, and
Intimacy, the Physical and the New Covenant – 5th Sunday in Lent Read More »
But God, Who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved) [Ephesians 2:4-5] The Old Testament Lesson [Numbers 21:4-9] presents an extraordinary picture of what St Paul is saying in
Just One Look – 4th Sunday in Lent Read More »
“Surely Jehovah is in this place – and I did not know it!” Genesis 28:1 I had spent many years working on my Covenant study and finally was determined to get it finished and published. One day, at an assisted living facility where I worked as chaplain, I was talking to a resident’s son, who
Surely Jehovah is in This Place – 2nd Sunday in Lent Read More »
Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” [Genesis 22:8] This chapter is one of the most amazing in the Old Testament, on one side because it clearly described what God would do with His own Son, and on the other hand, because this happened so far back in
Abraham’s Four Windows – 1st Sunday in Lent Read More »
On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise Him, He was named Jesus, the Name the angel had given Him before He had been conceived. [Luke 2:21] One of the most important events in the history of salvation was given only this one verse in the Bible – the occasion that the Church
Covenant, Circumcision and the Name of Jesus (a New Year’s Day sermon) Read More »
“She will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His Name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.” So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they
The End or the Beginning of Christmas – a Christmas Eve Sermon Read More »
