Sunday Sermon: He Must Increase, I Must Decrease
/He Must Increase, I Must Decrease
“He must increase, but I must decrease.”
English Sermon: Stephen’s Spirit-filled Sermon
/Stephen’s Spirit-filled Sermon
Acts 7:1-60 - Stephen Addresses the Sanhedrin
“But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.”
Three Themes in Stephen’s Sermon
God’s servants who faced loss and rejection
Stubborn-hearted people who resist the Holy Spirit
The God of glory who redeems His people
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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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.”
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.”
