Genesis 22:1-19 A friend of mine worked in North Africa and the Middle East for twenty years. When he was living in the West Bank of Palestine, his son, who was then three or four years old, was upset with him and said the meanest thing he could think of. He told his dad, “Youwa…
Genesis 16:1-13 I talked last week about Abraham and his call from God to leave Haran (modern day southeast Turkey) and go to Canaan. (once again this week I will use the names given to Abram and Sarai in Genesis 17) He left with his wife, Sarah, his nephew, Lot, and two promises from God….
Genesis 15:1-21 It was Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (1788–1865), a Danish archaeologist, who came up with a scientific basis for defining the ages of mankind by a study of tools and other artifacts used. The three ages were the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. Each age was considered an advancement because of…
Psalm 118 It is always amazing and a bit surprising to see where a sermon series takes us. We began in mid July to preach from psalms that are quoted in the New Testament and have looked at psalms 2, 14, 16, 22, 69, 110, and today 118. I have known intellectually that Jesus is…
Psalm 69 I preached last week from Psalm 22, a psalm of David. Psalm 22 speaks about death by crucifixion. Because this was not something that David ever faced, at least not that we know, and because there are so many details about the crucifixion of Jesus in that psalm, it is viewed as a…