Here are recordings from various places I’ve had a chance to preach. I’ve tried to provide links to the original sites to give them credit. If you have any questions on anything you hear, please write it in the comments or publish a blog post about it and let me know.
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…
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!
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.
I. Introduction: The Gift of the Holy Spirit II. Jesus’s Last Supper Teachings (John 15-16) III. The Holy Spirit in Action: Ephesus (Acts 19) IV. Caution Against Single-Verse Doctrines V. Living in the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4) VI. Conclusion
We’ve been having Monday Church for several months now and it’s been great. I haven’t shared any notes because I honestly haven’t taken many. We sit around and talk about something in the Bible while we eat lunch. (Mine is usually some kind of deconstructed taco leftovers, but I digress.) This bit was kind of…
I’m preaching about all of the people Jesus talked to. In this installment, I cover the Pharisees. I started talking about Shavout and Nicodemus. I forgot the name of the holiday in my sermon, but we just recently had Shavout so it should have been on the top of my mind! I cover John 3,…
