Be at Home with Jesus
Sermons from December 2018
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Celebrate God’s Greatest Gift
A Light in the Darkness
It was August 5, 2010. In the San Jose copper and gold mine in northern Chile, a forty-five story tall block of granite broke loose and plunged through the levels of the mine. Portions of the mine’s exit ramp collapsed, trapping 33 miners nearly a half-mile deep in the earth. Hector Tobar, author of “Deep […]
A Wondrous Sign Shows Wondrous Love
You saw in the children’s sermon, there was the mother and the baby and the dragon. Maybe some of you kids were thinking “Pastor, why did you say there was a dragon at Christmas?” But to be honest, I just said it because God said it in Revelation 12. Why would God put this in […]
“It Was Good for Me to Be Afflicted.”
John the Baptist: Preacher of…Joy?
Download Life Guide I wanted all of you to receive the Schreiner family Christmas card this year. But to save on postage, I decided to share it with you here. We really wanted to include the perfect passage to express Christmas joy, so we did some searching, and I think we nailed it. “You brood […]
Prepare the Way for the Lord…with Prayer
In our Advent services this year we have been focusing on the three ingredients which Martin Luther said that God uses to grow theologians. Those three ingredients, or three disciplines, if you will, are: meditation, prayer and testing. Or as they are sometimes called by their Latin names: Meditatio, Oratio and Tenatio. (Wait a minute. […]
The Gift of Peace
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Prepare the Way for the Lord…with Meditation
You’re as cuddly as a cactus and as charming as an eel. You’re a bad banana with a greasy black peel. You’re a monster, Mr. Grinch. This time of year you hear a lot about Dr. Seuss’s Mr. Grinch. On the outside he looked quite ready for Christmas. He wore a Santa hat. He had […]
Hope That Lets You Stand
Download Life Guide “Drug overdoses and suicides caused drop in 2017 life expectancy.” “Christian missionary murdered in India.” “Camp Fire is deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history.” “12 dead in Thousand Oaks shooting.” “7.0 magnitude earthquake rocks Alaska.” When you hear another day’s headlines that sound like this– natural disasters, war, division, persecution, […]