Baptism is a participation in the life and death of Jesus.
In this Psalm of praise David uses the experience of a violent storm to praise God as the Lord of Creation as well as alluding to Ancient Near Eastern myths of the storm god slaying the sea dragon of chaos and death.
In an epidemic of loneliness friendship is a balm for the soul. This sermon explores some of the challenges and blessings of friendship, and the extraordinary gift of friendship with God in Jesus.
Because Jesus is fully human, like us in every way, yet without sin, he shows us how to be human. But more than that, because he is fully human, his saving work touches every part of our humanity.
The Christian idea of joy is counterintuitive as in James 1: 2 "Count it all joy brothers and sisters when you face trials". This sermon explains how joy is rooted in the very character of God and his wonderful purposes for us.
Jesus calls the Holy Spirit the Comforter. We explore how God comforts us by the personal presence of Holy Spirit with us.
If Jesus really did rise from the dead, then he provides the comfort and hope we need in this world of conflict and death. He is the truth we can surrender to.
Karl Barth writes, "in its root and origin sin is the arrogance in which a man wants to be his own and his neighbour’s judge." On the cross, the only one who truly is the Judge was judged in our place so that we might receive his forgiveness.
Jesus demonstrated that he is “the resurrection and the life” when he raised Lazarus from the dead, and he wept with Mary and Martha. Similarly, he both gives us hope…
Jesus' healing of a man born blind is a window into the question of spiritual blindness. So often we think we can see but our pride makes us blind to…