The worship of God is not left to our imaginations. God reveals how and when we are to worship him. In today's sermon, we see Jeroboam's creation of a man-made…
Now, while laments often wrestle with the question of understanding the actions of a good God in the face of evil, the message of Lamentations is simpler: can the relationship…
Psalm 67 has been called the Lord's Prayer of the Old Testament. It shows us a covenant prayer to a covenant God. In this sermon, we see how praying is…
As we come into Dan 9 today, we have read Daniel’s prayer for his people, specifically, for his nation, the people of Israel. Throughout the prayer he confesses their sins…
In our passage today, you have a contrast between Jesus’ ability to see the future and the disciples’ inability. The whole passage is suffused with notions of preparation and future…
Today, we begin to explore Jesus’ first answer: when will the temple be destroyed? I will argue that this prophecy was fulfilled when the Romans destroyed the Jerusalem temple in…
Why did the Sadducees reject the resurrection? Jesus said the it was because they did no know the scriptures. Jesus goes back to the Book of Exodus to make his…
In this section, called Jeremiah's confessions, we look at three more of Jeremiah's laments. We see that Jeremiah is called to a life that will not include normal family life.…
In this sermon, we look at the section of Jeremiah that has been labeled as “Jeremiah’s confessions”: not confessing sin or the greatness of God, but more like laments (cf.…
God saves his servants who trust him because God is uniquely holy. Israel, however, has not trusted him, and they are not a holy people. How, then, will they fulfill…