Moses, Salvation, and a Drink of Water
If you follow the pattern of Moses doing an act of salvation and then serving drinks, you get some extra insight into when he broke the pattern.
If you follow the pattern of Moses doing an act of salvation and then serving drinks, you get some extra insight into when he broke the pattern.
This sermon focuses on Ephesians 4, explaining that after Jesus descended to Earth and ascended to heaven, He gave gifts to the church to empower its work. The central idea is the priesthood of all believers, meaning every Christian has direct, confident access to God through Jesus’s sacrifice, as supported by passages in 1 Peter…

Getting told “you have to forgive them” about all kinds of Christian workers that have done me wrong is hard. Paul had the same problems.
Ephesians 5:1 calls for believers to be imitators of God by actively choosing love and purity. This imitation begins with putting away destructive sins like bitterness, wrath, and malice (Ephesians 4:31) and replacing them with kindness, tenderheartedness, and forgiveness, modeled directly after Christ’s forgiveness toward us (Ephesians 4:32).
My sermon on Ephesians 4, where Paul tells people that if you’re going to be a Christian, start acting like it!
Reflecting on Ephesians 4 and how the trend of people fighting online is not the same as the Christian Jesus called us to live.

Some review of Rosh Hashannah, and then a look at Ephesians 4 – all the ways we can be united, and need to preserve the unity, of the Holy Spirit.
The Apostle Paul prays for the Ephesian church with all of the ooomph and passion that he can muster after Ephesians 1 and 2. He’s fired up!
This also gives is a great example of the things we want for people…the things we want to change in other people…are really just that they would know and experience Jesus.
Here’s my sermon on Ephesians 3. You can listen to it, or read the AI generated outline below. 1. Introduction: The Foundation for Prayer (Ephesians 3:1) 1.1. The Starting Point: A Unified Church The sermon begins by linking back to Ephesians 2, reminding the audience that Paul’s point is built on the foundation that Jews…
My sermon on the first 3 chapters of Zechariah, and how they point to Jesus.