Category: Sermon Content

The Wise Men and the Christ Child Part 3

This is the second post in a series of posts from a sermon preached on December 14th, 2014 entitled The Wise Men and the Christ Child. Be sure to also read part 1 and part 2.

The Response to the Story

First, come and see just as the Wise Men did. Come and see the one born King. Come and see the one who was cut off for your sakes. Come and look …

The Wise Men and the Christ Child Part 2

This is the second post in a series of posts from a sermon preached on December 14th, 2014 entitled The Wise Men and the Christ Child. Be sure to also read part 1 and part 3.

The Significance of the Story

If you want to understand the Bible you can’t treat it as a dogmatic handbook. It isn’t a bullet point list of “do’s” and “don’ts”. There are certainly times when the Bible is …

The Wise Men and the Christ Child Part 1

This is the first in a series of posts adapted from a sermon preached on December 14th, 2014 entitled The Wise Men and the Christ Child. Be sure to also read part 2 and part 3.

The History of the Story

 Bethlehem

The story begins in the little town of Bethlehem. That’s where Jesus, the one born King of the Jews, launched his campaign. Bethlehem really was a little town. It’s located 5 miles …

Isaiah 55 and Hope for Today 4/4

“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
    call upon him while he is near;
7 let the wicked forsake his way,
    and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
    and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are

…

Isaiah 55 and the Everlasting Covenant in Christ 3/4

“Come, everyone who thirsts,
    come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
    come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
    without money and without price.”

“Incline your ear, and come to me;
    hear, that your soul may live;
and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
    my steadfast, sure love for David.”

We typically think of heaven in terms of a transaction with God. Have you ever realized that? We think …

Isaiah 55 and the Restoration of All Things 2/4

In Isaiah 55 God proclaims that one day he will restore and fix the world that we have wrecked with our sin. Isaiah 55 is restoration of God’s creation.

Read verses 12-13.

12 “For you shall go out in joy
    and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
    shall break forth into singing,
    and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thorn shall …

Isaiah 55 and the God of Comfort 1/4

As you dig into Isaiah 55 there are a few things you have to keep in mind. Remember Isaiah’s audience. He is writing to the people of God around 700BC . God had given his people land, peace from their enemies. He had given them his law. And yet, God’s people turned their hearts away from him and gave their hearts to the false god’s of other nations. Because the nation had abandoned God, God …