Sermons on Praise
We celebrate Christmas every year, and it can be so easy to lose our sense of awe and wonder over just how incredible Jesus’ birth is and what it means for us. Join us as we look at the joy that Jesus offers us in His birth and why it matters.
We all have so many things to be thankful for, which are so easily taken for granted. God is worthy of our praise, even in challenging times.
Seasons of life come and go. Sometimes we find it easy to genuinely feel and express gratitude, while in other seasons we may struggle to sincerely thank and praise God. Regardless of our circumstances, however, God remains the same God He has always been, and is equally worthy of our praise.
Jesus gives us a powerful example to follow and to live out in The Lord’s Prayer. The words are well known, but are they well understood and practiced? Join us for this verse-by-verse look at Matthew’s narration of this powerful prayer.
Jesus is received, welcomed, and praised by the crowds as Lord and King as He enters Jerusalem. Only a few days later He is rejected, hated, and mocked by crowds, leading up to the cross. These same responses to Jesus exist today. What is your response?
Matthew and Luke each give us different details and perspectives of Jesus’ birth. For this reason it is helpful to take them both into account in studying and celebrating the birth of Jesus.
Sometimes we find it easy and natural to be grateful and to express gratitude to God for what He has blessed us with. At other times in life, we struggle to find reasons to be thankful, but scripture tells us that God is the same God, in both the good and in the challenging times.…
God created mankind with innate value, worth, and dignity by making us in His image. This gives immense value and worth irrespective of our race, age, socioeconomic status, education, or gender. This necessarily impacts how we see and treat ourselves and others.
Worship is our response to who God is and to what He has done. It is our celebration of He who alone is worthy of our praise. This morning we discuss worship in this shortened message, which accompanied an extended time of worshipping God together.
Often we look to Matthew and Luke’s gospels during the Christmas Season, as they beautifully and powerfully narrate the birth of Jesus and surrounding events. John’s gospel, on the contrary, may not seem very christmasy on the surface, as he does not narrate many of the events surrounding Jesus’ birth. Instead, John goes back to the beginning of time, to creation itself, for his readers to see and understand that Jesus is more than a man. He is Emmanuel, God with us.