Last night we resumed our midweek worship service after the Thanksgiving holiday. And I continued our study of Psalm 119. Last night's text was the tenth stanza of the psalm (there are 22 in all). Last night was the best I have felt physically in the pulpit in two weeks or more. I think I have finally beat this cold. Praise God! I just hope now that I did not give it to the kids. Here is the sermon skeleton from last night's message: Title: "Praying with Confidence in God's Word" Text: Psalm 119:73-80Theme: Praying with confidence in God's word...

This past Sunday, I began a series of messages on the parables of Jesus recorded in Luke 15. My pastoral concern is that our congregation would have the heart of God toward lost people. And lost people matter to God. So they should matter to us. Here is the sermon skeleton from Sunday's message.   Title: "The God of the Missing Sheep" Text: Luke 15:1-7Series: "Lost People Matter to God" (Luke 15) Outline: Jesus teaches us that lost people matter to God by describing how a good shepherd responds to a missing sheep. I. The Shepherd's Purposeful Neglect (15:4)    A....

"The first of the eight Beatitudes is one of the strongest statements in the Bible of the great doctrine of justification by faith in Jesus Christ alone, for it is a statement of a person's complete inability to please God by any human effort. - James Montgomery Boice, The Sermon on the Mount, p. 23This past Sunday, I began a series on the Sermon on the Mount. I began with the first beatitude. Here is the sermon skeleton from Sunday's message. Title: "The Poor in Spirit"Text: Matthew 5:3 Series: The Beatitudes: The Life God Blesses Theme: The blessed paradox of...