Author: Pastor Smith
God has Come to Help His People
Text: Luke 7: 11-17 People sometimes don’t realize how true the words are that come from their mouths. Someone blurts out, thank God. Another says my God without even thinking or meaning those words as a prayer. Now certainly we shouldn’t use God’s name in a careless, mindless way. But there’s more. Thank God! You betcha. Thank God. He’s involved […]
Renew Me Lord, By Your Spirit and Your Word
Text: Psalm 51: 10-12 I don’t know about you, but for me a new car is a special thing. When I drive it off the lot, I try to be so careful. Listen to that engine run so smooth. Look how that paint gleams. Smell that interior. But as time goes by something changes. I’m not as careful as I […]
Christ High Ascended, Now in Glory Seated
Text: Acts 1: 1-11 They happen all the time. Homecomings. You see families at the airport reunited. You see them returning in uniform to their loved ones. Homecomings. Last year, those world class littleleaguers in Petaluma were welcomed home with a parade. Well today we celebrate another homecoming. Forty days after Jesus rose from the grave, he took his disciples […]
Keep My Word
Text: John 14:23-29 Last Sunday the Holy Spirit invited us into the upper room on the night before Jesus’ died for us all. We heard our Lord speak of something we are to wear in our lives that will tell the world that we are Jesus’ people. Not a cross or a tattoo. Not a Bible that we carry around. […]
Don’t you fear God?!
38 There was a written notice above him, which read: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. 39 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? 41 We are […]