Pastors and others sometimes encounter people who claim that their sins are too many and too serious for them to expect pardon from God. But, in my experience (and probably your own), none of them ever committed such grave and cruel atrocities as Judah’s wicked King Manasseh. He set up idols to pagan gods in…
Mark’s gospel has repeatedly emphasized the kingdom of God that Jesus came to establish in the world. Even as Jesus spoke the words found in our sermon paragraphs, his messianic kingdom was expanding, a kingdom that cannot fail but is forever. Alongside it, the kingdom of the enemy Satan was toppling and crumbling, unable to…
Jesus often uses some of the most unlikely people to accomplish some of the greatest, most remarkable things in his world. Perhaps there is no greater example than his choosing twelve ordinary men (one of them even having to be replaced) to be his appointed and commissioned apostles. This sermon discusses how such ordinary men…
Psalm 97 is part of a group that includes Psalms 93-100. All of these Spirit-inspired poems of praise contain a common theme: the kingly rule of the Almighty God. Our Sovereign God reigns in infinite power and authority over all of Earth and Heaven. In the New Testament, our Lord Jesus describes himself as that…