Sermons from April 2026
Genesis 2:24-25 – The First Marriage
Therefore: Whenever you have a therefore you need to find out what it is there for. This means on account of, since, because of this. Matthew 19:4-6: He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning (No evolution) made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh.…
Mark 9:9-29 – Highs and Lows; Mountains and Valleys
Malachi 4:5-6. “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.” Matthew 11:12-14: From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force. For all the Prophets and…
Genesis 2:18-25 – God Creates Woman and Marriage
The Hebrew word for helper is ‛êzer (ay’-zer) Psalms 33:20: Our soul waits for the LORD; he is our help and our shield. David said in Psalms 121:1-2: I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. 1Timothy 2:13: For Adam was formed first, then Eve; 1Corinthians 11:8-9: For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but…
Luke 15:1-32 – Lost and Found
Who was in the crowd: Tax collectors…the most hated group in Jewish culture, they were cheaters they collected more taxes then required to pocket the money, they were not allowed in the synagogue, Jewish families would have a funeral for them and declared them dead, they were not allowed to testify in court because their word was worthless. Sinners…They were anyone who didn’t follow the law or regulations, they were considered unclean and contaminated by the Pharisees. Pharisees…Religious leaders in…
Genesis 2:4-17 – Adam and the Garden
“The LORD God” = YHWH (YHVH) Jeremiah 18:6: “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. Isaiah 64:8: But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. Psalm 103:14: For he knows our frame; he remembers…
Mark 9:1-8 Jesus in all His Glory
Vss. 1-3: Jesus is Transfigured Before His Disciples. “Kingdom” is basileia—Meaning “royal power, kingship, dominion, rule.” “Royal Splendor” Luke 9:29: And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became dazzling white. “transformed” is metamorphoō (met-am-or-fo’-o) to change into another form, to transform. Spurgeon: “For Christ to be glorious was almost a less matter than for him to restrain or hide his glory. It is forever his glory that he concealed his glory; and that,…
Genesis 1:26-2:3 – Creation is Finished
5 Imperatives: Romans 8:21-22: That the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. Isaiah 11:6-9: The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child…
1 Peter 1:3-5 A Living Hope (Resurrection Sunday)
Resurrection account (Matt. 28:1-8, Luke 24:11; John 20:19-20;30-31) John 14:6: I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by Me. John 3:16-18: For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes on…
John 19:28-30 It Is Finished (Good Friday Service)
Luke 23:34 : “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” Luke 23:43: “I tell you with certainty, today you will be with me in Paradise.” John 19:26-27: “Dear lady, here is your son.” Then he told the disciple, “Here is your mother.” Matthew 27:46 About three o’clock, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eli, eli, lema sabachthani?” , which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Psalm 22:15: My strength is dried up like…