Sermons from April 2019
The Invitation
Ryan Karayiannis shares with us on Jesus’ invitation to Zacchaeus to come down. The gospel is a transformative message – it doesn’t stop with the invitation. We are transformed by our response to it.
The Miracle of Easter
He is Risen, He is Risen Indeed Our faith is built on a person and one historical event. If there is no historical resurrection of Jesus there should be no Christians 1 Cor. 15:13 For if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your faith is useless… And if there is no resurrection, “Let’s feast and drink, for tomorrow we die!” 1 Cor. 15:1- Let…
Hold onto Hope
We usually want to skip forward from Good Friday to Sunday Our western culture doesn’t know how to deal with pain Is. 52:3-6 He was despised and rejected—a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was…
Foretold – Part 4
It is difficult to make predictions of any kind, let alone one person’s life hundreds of years in the future. Luke 24:26-28 Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself. 1 Peter 1:10-12 The prophets knew they were writing about something in the future. This salvation was something even the prophets wanted to know more about when they prophesied about this gracious…
Foretold – Part 3
Impossibility = All religions are true The coming of Jesus was accurately prophesied hundreds of years before he was born. “Before man reaches the moon, your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to Australia by guided missiles. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail.” —Arthur Summerfield, U.S. Postmaster General under Eisenhower, 1959 It is difficult to make predictions of any kind let alone, one person’s life hundreds of years in the future The Old Testament clearly prophecies about Jesus hundreds of years before he…