When believer’s encounter opposition, how should we respond, and how do we find the strength to do so? The story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and the fiery furnace answers…
In this sermon, we transition from the eating habits of four young men to the fate of four world kingdoms, God’s story concerns it all. In Ch. 2, Daniel interprets…
Daniel lives as an exile (like Esther) among the Babylonians (like Ezekiel). Like Esther and Mordecai, Daniel experiences both the danger of serving God faithfully in a foreign land and…
In this sermon we look at how God acts to restore and renew his worship. We also look at how the promises God makes to Israel begin to be restored…
In chapters 25-32, we learn that God is present to judge the nations. Ezekiel tells us of particular sins that bring the judgement. Two of them are mistreatment of God's…
In chapters 4-24, we see that God is present to judge his people. Ezekiel fulfills his function of bringing God's reasons for judgment to the people. In Ezekiel we see…
God’s purposes through both judgment and restoration is for his people to know him. Some version of the phrase “they will know that I am the LORD” occurs about sixty-five…
In this message, Pastor Winston looks at the final chapters of Jeremiah. Here we see the realization of the Lord's judgment - God keeping his word. We see God pronouncing…
Thus far, God’s covenant with Israel has primarily resulted in judgment due to their unfaithfulness, but now the covenant will result in their salvation due to God’s faithfulness. The central…
So far Jeremiah’s ministry has emphasized four actions: uprooting, tearing down, destroying and overthrowing. But after twenty-nine chapters of warning about judgment, chs. 30–33 have a noticeably greater emphasis on…