English Sermon: Christ The Cornerstone

Christ the Cornerstone

“Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.”

— Ephesians 2:19-22 (NIV)

“The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes.”

— Psalm 118:22-23 (NIV)

“As you come to him, the living Stone rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For in Scripture it says:

“See, I lay a stone in Zion,
a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in him
will never be put to shame.”

— 1 Peter 2:4-8 (NIV)

Sunday Sermon: Happy Family

Happy Family

“But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

— Joshua 24:15 (NIV)

“Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife.”

— Proverbs 17:1 (NIV)

“Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

— Genesis 1:26 (NIV)

“But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.”

— 1 Corinthians 7:2 (NIV)

English Sermon: For The Praise of His Glory

For The Praise of His Glory

“ in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.”

— Ephesians 1:12 (NIV)

“The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.”

— Revelation 21:23 (NIV)

“When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them. Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him, so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:

“Lord, who has believed what he heard from us,
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said,

“He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their heart,
lest they see with their eyes,
and understand with their heart, and turn,
and I would heal them.”

Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him. Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue; for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.”

— John 12:37-39 (ESV)

“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”

— 1 Corinthians 10:31 (NIV)

Sunday Sermon: A Peaceful Church

A Peaceful Church

“Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.”

— Hebrews 13:4 (NIV)

“There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,”

— Acts 18:2 (NIV)

“Paul stayed on in Corinth for some time. Then he left the brothers and sisters and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. Before he sailed, he had his hair cut off at Cenchreae because of a vow he had taken.”

— Acts 18:18 (NIV)

“and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them.”

— Acts 18:3 (NIV)

“Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately.”

— Acts 18:24-26 (NIV)

English Sermon: Christ Is The Head

Christ Is The Head & The Church Is The Body of Christ

“As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.”

— Ephesians 2: 1-5 (NIV)

“And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.”

— Ephesians 1:22-23 (NIV)