Sermon Archive

Sermon Archive

Jacob Wrestles God

FIRST READING Genesis 32:9-13 Reader: Our reading today is from Genesis, the 32nd chapter.All: Speak Lord, for we are listening. 9 And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of myfather Isaac, O Lord who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to yourkindred, and I will do you good,’ 10 I am not worthy of the least of all thesteadfast love and all the…

Isaac Born to Sarah

FIRST READING                                               Genesis 18:1-15 A Son Promised to Abraham and Sarah 1 The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day. 2 He looked up and saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent entrance to meet them and bowed down to the ground. 3 He…

Garden of Eden

Garden of Eden Genesis 2:4b-25 4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground; 6 but a…
REDEEMING WITH JUSTICE SCRIPTURE READING                                           Nehemiah 5:1-13 Nehemiah Deals with Oppression 1 Now there was a great outcry of…

Hidden Heroes of the Bible: Ezra & Nehemiah

Ezra 1:1-4; 3:8-13Luke 18:1-8 FIRST READING Ezra 1:1-4; 3:8-131In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, to fulfill the word of theLord from the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of KingCyrus of Persia so that he made a proclamation throughout all hiskingdom and also in writing,…

Hidden Heroes of the Bible: Josiah

2 Kings 22:8-13; 23:1-3; Luke 10:25-28 FIRST READING 2 Kings 22:8-13; 23:1-38 The high priest Hilkiah said to Shaphan the secretary, “I havefound the book of the law in the house of the Lord.” When Hilkiah gavethe book to Shaphan, he read it. 9 Then Shaphan the secretary came tothe king and reported to the king, “Your servants have melted down thesilver that was found in…

Hidden Heroes of the Bible: Aaron

Exodus 28:1-5; Ephesians 6:10-17 FIRST READING Exodus 28:1-51 “Then bring near to you your brother Aaron and his sons with him,from among the Israelites, to serve me as priests—Aaron and Aaron’ssons: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 2 You shall make sacredvestments for the glorious adornment of your brother Aaron. 3 And youshall speak to all who are skillful, whom I…