Meditate on the words of this great hymn as you prepare to call it a day . . . My Hope is in the Lord — by Norman J. Clayton My hope is in the Lord Who gave Himself for me, And paid the price of all my sin at Calvary. Chorus For me He [...]
This week’s sermon is the second of a two part series on Romans 3:20-27 entitled, The Heart of the Gospel. This is a departure from our series on John which came about because we have been learning this passage as a church during the summer. Well, a few of us have. Anyway, I wanted to [...]
Sermon Summary: This Sunday our passage will be John 19:16b-27. The title of the sermon is The Glory of Christ. The crucifixion in John’s gospel is recounted in four words but the events, characters and communications at the cross are given great emphasis by John. On Sunday we will see how John uses these details [...]
In Sunday’s sermon on John 18:28-40, entitled What is Truth?, we found that the answer John’s gospel gives to this question is that Jesus is truth and the word of God is truth. As I was thinking about this later in the day, the thought occurred that perhaps there were other truths as well, such [...]
This week’s sermon is called “What is Truth?” and is from John 18:28-40. The setting of the passage is the interaction of Pilate with the religious leaders and with Jesus. In the passage, Pilate goes back and forth between Jesus and the religious leaders, providing a vivid picture of the choice Pilate faced. He would [...]
This week I am starting something new which I hope to continue on a weekly basis. I am calling this weekly article Notes from the Study. The focus of this article is to share with you some things I have studied for the upcoming Sunday morning sermon which I would not have time to cover [...]
What Would Jesus Eat? I remember seeing this book title a few years ago on the shelves of a local Christian bookstore. Immediately my radar went up. I thumbed through the book and found that it recommended a classic Mediterranean diet of fresh vegetables, olive oil, a little red wine, fish and lean meat. There’s [...]
Jesus is a hot topic in our culture today. We can see this in the massive sales of books like The DaVinci Code. We can see it through box office receipts from movies like The Passion of the Christ. We can see it in the fact that major newsmagazines like Time and Newsweek feature at [...]
Reading Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross was inspiring. It was a great blessing, a book to be savored. Edited by Nancy Guthrie, the book contains 25 short articles on many of the aspects of the Passion week written by some of the great pastor-theologians of the past and present. The luminous names like Augustine, [...]
