Sunday Sermon: Witnessing Watchmen

Witnessing Watchmen

“Go on up to a high mountain,
O Zion, herald of good news;
lift up your voice with strength,
O Jerusalem, herald of good news;
lift it up, fear not;
say to the cities of Judah,
“Behold your God!”
Behold, the Lord God comes with might,
and his arm rules for him;
behold, his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him.”

— Isaiah 40:9-10

“Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.”

— Isaiah 40:26

“For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

— 2 Peter 1:17

English Sermon: Who Will Go For Us?

Who Will Go For Us?

“Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

— Matthew 9:35-38

What is Compassion?

Splagchnizomai: to be moved in the inward parts, i.e. to feel compassion

Isaiah 6:5-8

“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King,the Lord Almighty.”

Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”

Sunday Sermon: Fruitless Yet Fruitful

Fruitless Yet Fruitful

“Though the fig tree should not blossom,
nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail
and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold
and there be no herd in the stalls,
yet I will rejoice in the Lord;
I will take joy in the God of my salvation.”

— Habakkuk 3:17-18

English Sermon: Is Dependency Your Posture?

Is Dependency Your Posture?

“When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.”

— Daniel 6:10 (ESV)

Three Types of Posture:

1. Posture of Prayer

   • Daniel 6:6-13

   • Mark 6:45-51

   • Mark 6:46-48

   • Psalm 34:1

2. Posture of Praise

   • Psalm 34:1

   • 1 Samuel 30:1-10

   • 2 Samuel 6:12-18, 20-22

   • 2 Samuel 6:13-15

3. Posture of Obedience

   • Genesis 39-41

   • Genesis 12:1-4

   • Hebrews 11:8-10

   • Daniel 3:12-18

   • Hebrews 11:8

   • Daniel 3:17-18

What is a Posture of Dependency?

A posture of dependency is an action done consistently regardless of what's going on currently.

Sunday Sermon: The First & The Last

The First & The Last

“But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

— Mark 10:31

“Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. ”

— Ephesians 2: 11-13

“And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.”

— Hebrews 11:39-40