I’m terrible at New Year’s resolutions like 90% of the rest of you. For 7 years now I’ve resolved to juggle 5 by the end of the year, and only this year did I actually buy 2 more softballs to add to the 3 I can already juggle. New Year’s Day is a terrible day […]
John 19 – Jesus Died on the Cross on Purpose
Here is my sermon on John 19. What is unusual about this is that usually I would preach on the passion and crucifixion on Easter, but since I’m doing expository preaching chapter by chapter through John, we have Easter in February! Pilate, Jesus, the Jewish leaders of the day, I talk about a lot of […]
Easter 2017 – Many Were Afraid of Jesus
Here are my notes and the recording of my Easter sermon this year. Notes get crazy at the end, but I dump them here for your ease. Download: Easter-20170416 Jesus Arrested by an Army The Jewish leaders were Afraid of Jesus rising from the dead. The city would have been crowded as ever. Passover filled […]
Fasting for Lent
I know that Jesus said that our fasting should be in secret, but I’m going to at least talk about it a little bit here. LENT is coming, and I’m preaching both Sundays around Ash Wednesday at a protestant church. The funny thing is, when we think that we can beg God’s favor and force […]
Jesus, The Example Set
Whatever we celebrate about Christ’s doing today, whatever joy we have in His resurrection and defeat of death, we can hold on to not only as a great work for our sake, but also as an example to follow.