Matthew 8:23-27 This is very strange. I am standing here, looking out at empty seats, less then ten people, spread out from each other, keeping social distance. Where is everyone? You are in apartments and villas, sitting in front of your computer watching from the safety of your own home. This is a new experience…
Matthew 20:20-28 If you are like me, then you want a great many things. When I make a trip to Thailand to see my daughter and her family, I wonder what it would be like to fly in business class or first class and stretch out in comfort without someone’s elbow poking me on my…
1 Thessalonians 5:12-28 At the end of Paul’s letter to the Thessalonian church, he writes short exhortations and we could preach on each of those for the next month. But because we have preached about most of those topics in other sermons, I am going to pass over most of those exhortations and focus on…
1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11 The text from 1 Thessalonians this morning talks about how it will be when Jesus returns and the timing of his return. So I thought I would start out with a card trick. [a volunteer picks a card from a deck of cards, shows it to everyone but me, puts it back…
1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 I mentioned last week that Paul finished saying what he most wanted to say to the church in Thessalonica in the first three chapters of the letter. Then, in chapter four, he wrote a two verse introduction to the rest of the letter. Timothy returned from his visit to Thessalonica and brought…