This Psalm focuses on different aspects of the holiness of God and what response of all people should be to that holiness. The question is forces us to ask is whether we show the fear and reverence to God that is his due.
Read Psalm 99
Our Relationship with God
In these verses Jesus speaks of the relationship he will have with his disciples after his death and resurrection as well as the relationship his Father will have with them. He also stresses that there can be no relationship with Him or the Father without obedience.
Read John 14:18-24
Teach Us to Number our Days
Psalm 90 deals with the brevity of life. Life is short and we must die because of the wrath of God against sin. There is hope for God’s people, however, because the Lord is their dwelling place and he will establish the word of their hands. We are taught to live in the light of these realities.
Read Psalm 90
Another Helper to be With You
Jesus is about to leave his disciples to return to heaven via the cross, resurrection and ascension. He comforts his disciples by promising to ask the Father who will give them another Helper who would be for them what Jesus had been for them while he was with them on earth.
Read John 14:15-17
The Grace of God has Appeared
The coming Jesus Christ is the expression of the grace of God who has appeared to bring salvation for all people. This salvation that he brings is a salvation from sinful and empty lives to lives that are focused on pleasing God.
Read Titus 2:11-14
For to Us a Child is Born
This passage prophesies of light shining into darkness. The darkness is sin and its results. The light is the child who would be born who would become the great king of an everlasting kingdom of peace, justice and righteousness.
Read Isaiah 9:1-7
Will Jesus Do Anything we Ask?
This passage contains two remarkable promises. Jesus’ followers will do greater works than Jesus did while he was on earth and Jesus will do whatever his followers ask in his name. The sermon examines what Jesus means by these promises.
Read John 14:12-14
The Folly of Atheism
This Psalm teaches that the great problem in the world is that people have rejected the God of the Bible. There is a connection between the fact that people have turned away from God and the wickedness and misery in the world. The hope for the world is in the salvation that the Psalmist longs for and that has come in Jesus Christ.
Read Psalm 14
Knowing the Father
Jesus teaches that to see him is to see the Father. The desire to connect with the transcendent is a deep human desire. Many seek to satisfy that desire through various forms of idolatry. God has revealed himself supremely through Christ that we might know him.
Read John 14:7-11
The Lord’s Supper as Nourishment
As a meal, part of the symbolism of the Lord’s Supper is that believers are nourished. This sermon explores what its means to eat Christ’s flesh and drink his blood by faith and how we are spiritually nourished.
Read John 6:47-59