Sermons By Date - August 2011

Act justly

08/28/2011

To understand “act justly” in Micah 6:8 requires a reading of God’s severe criticism in Micah 3.  Judges are supposed to love good and hate evil but there were unjust judges in Israel who loved evil and hated good.  They allowed the rich and powerful to grind down the poor and marginal until they were like skeletons.  The judges refused to listen to the pleas from those who were oppressed.  Go

Believe

08/21/2011

Earthquakes are terrifying but the prison guard in Philippi was probably more afraid of what the Roman authorities would do to him if his prisoners escaped in the earthquake rubble.  Suicide may have been on his mind.

The Big Ten

08/14/2011

The Ten Commandments were given by God through Moses to a people whom God loved and had just rescued from four centuries of slavery in a pagan country.  The people of Israel were saved but didn’t know how to live as a saved people.  So, God gave them ten simple rules to live by.

Love God and what’s his name

08/07/2011

Christians are a combination of “who” and “do”—who we are (born again sons and daughters of God through Jesus Christ) and what we do (live faithfully and righteously as followers of Jesus).