SERMONS

BC Please, Not BCE Convenience Fees, Huh? God’s Covid-19 Warning Jubilee Planet Earth Law Enforcement in the USA The Economy of the Early Church The Halloween Offense The Head of the NATO Snake and Revelation 6:6 The Heartbeat of a Great Nation Become Greatly Foolish (N/A) The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict The Judgment of Abandonment When a […]

Introduction It happened in the early to mid-seventeenth century, in Europe, and gained momentum and spread from there ever since. A switch is what happened, from a decidedly Jesus Christ-honoring dating nomenclature to a decidedly Christless, profane one. Why? Let’s talk about it… Discussion The switch centers on the term “Common Era,” from which is

Introduction   “…Do not steal. Do not take advantage of one another…” Leviticus 19:11, 13   There’s a not so quiet kind of injustice happening in modern life—and folks it ain’t happenin’ in back alleys, but in the fine print of our utility bills, ATMs, and online payments. Companies call them—get a load of this—“convenience”

I.                       Introduction   This is not a doomsday sermon; it is a wakeup call sermon. A warning shot has been fired across the bow. It is just a warning we think. The shot streaked across the bow in December 2019, but it has been in flight some seventy-four years since 1945, and at the time

I.            Introduction   This sermon is rooted in our “Jesus our Jubilee” study.   Jubilee planet earth? Not today, far from it. “Far from it” has always been the case spiritually down through the ages, but in recent times there is a sad, new twist. The governments of the so-called advanced countries of the earth

I.                       Introduction   Apparently, lots of problems. Why are they stacking up in the U.S.? Why are people of color victimized by the police in the USA? It is not least because prejudices run unchecked, but that is only symptomatic of much deeper issues. We wish to prayerfully explore this subject somewhat in this sermon.

Introduction   General Technical Background   An economy may represent any number of things, a nation, an industry, or just some group, say a church. Economics is essentially a scholarly study of economies, and it is very interested in production, the production of goods and services to satisfy the needs of a given economy’s members.

I. Introduction The history behind what we know today as Halloween is a convoluted affair. It appears to begin with a Celtic season-festival-tradition steeped in fear, ignorance, superstition, the occult, and worse, if that be possible, as one looks at it from the vantage point of other locales in Europe that observed the same festival

A couple of interesting asides to tuck away are the following: as a noun “nato” in Greek can mean the curiously misleading “one who is gentle” (lamb-like), the antithesis of the violent military alliance the acronym form connotes, and in Latin “nato” can mean “bare/birth/give birth” as a verb (from the root GENNH), and “begotten/birthed”

Introduction   Thus Satan, a fool, speaks, expediently, through the lips of another seated in the highest court in the land:   “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.”   This sermon is focused on