On the Day of Pentecost, Peter preached the first Christian sermon. After the crowds at the Temple are amazed when a lame beggar is healed, Peter explains that by faith in the name of Jesus the Christ the man has been healed. And on Solomon’s Porch he preaches again.
In Acts 2, God was doing something new and Peter was the first to get on board.
Fathers Day comes around every year and you don’t want to repeat the same sermon every time. Let’s mix it up and hear from Genesis 5. That sounds like fun.
This is the picture painted by Johannah referenced in the sermon.
Because of the baptism of Jesus narrative, the Holy Spirit is often depicted as a dove. Fire is more often used to illustrate the presence of God. The tongues of divided fire in Acts 2 are reminiscent of the fire that the led the Hebrews through the wilderness and rarely shot out and consumed people.
If the question is “What would Jesus do” the answer could be have a fish fry. I don’t know about fish first thing in the morning but if you were a fisherman by trade it’s probably not that weird.
He was manifested in the flesh,
vindicated by the Spirit,
seen by angels,
proclaimed among the nations,
believed on in the world,
taken up in glory.
I have preached this sermon before but we’ve had enough turn over that no present today, with the exception of my family, was there to hear it before. Amram and Jochebed were the parents of Moses. I reckon he turned out all right; here are some things we can learn from his mother.
In yesterday’s sermon on worship, I briefly mentioned the Song of Moses. The daily Bible reading that I’m doing on The Master’s Table is in Exodus 15 today. Half of that chapter or more is Moses recounting what God has done for the children of Israel, and then his sister picks up a tambourine and leads other women as they sing and dance. The Bible is filled with people that worship and it is clear that’s what God wants his people to do. Here is a link; I’m not going to try to sing Hebrew poetry in English but I will read it to you.
What is worship? Why do we do it, exactly what are we doing? Almost more of a workshop than a sermon, we will identify various elements of worship and attempt to answer these questions.
Okay, I’ve been reading the Bible pretty consistently since 1988. But here lately, starting on March 1st, I’ve been reading one chapter per day and then offering some comments, discussing translation choices, etc. I started at Genesis 1. As Julie Andrews said in The Sound of Music “Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start.”
I decided to read one chapter per day out loud and then offer discussion. There have been a few comments but no lengthy comment threads or debates in the discussion as of yet. The decision to record myself reading and then post online created some issues, however. Any modern translation is still covered by copyright. My translation of choice is the ESV but any modern translation has restrictions from the publisher on how much of the text you can reprint and even greater restrictions on how many verses you can read out loud. The KJV and ASV are in the public domain… but they are so old. Now if you prefer reading the King James that’s fine; the best Bible translation is the one you will actually read and plenty of people not only read King James but in many cases that is the only Bible they read and they feel very strongly about it. My only issue is that is not the language we speak on a daily basis. I believe everyone needs a Bible translation they can read in their first language.
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