English Sermon: The Whole-Body Bruise Called Stripes

The Whole-Body Bruise Called Stripes

Isaiah 53:5

But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness, By his wounds you have been healed.

Sunday Sermon: More Than Conquerors

More Than Conquerors

Romans 8: 37

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

English Sermon: They Delivered Him for Envy

They Delivered Him for Envy

Psalm 1: 1-3

Blessed is the man
    who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
    nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
    and on his law he meditates day and night.

He is like a tree
    planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
    and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers

1 Peter 2: 1-2

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

Sunday Sermon: The Kindness and Severity of God

The Kindness and Severity of God

Romans 11:22 (ESV)

Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

English Sermon: The Six Show Trials

The Six Show Trials

Deuteronomy 16:18-20 ESV

“You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous. Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the LORD your God is giving you.