Throughout the history of the western world, philosophers and theologians alike have gone out of their way to offer proofs for God’s existence. By definition a proof is “evidence or argument establishing or helping to establish a fact or the truth of a statement.” Thomas Aquinas, a theologian who lived …
In the musical My Fair Lady, the main character Eliza Doolittle sings about her frustration when loving words from her various suitors aren’t followed up by loving deeds. “Words! Words! Words!,” she exclaims to one of them, Freddy. “I’m so sick of words! I get words all day through; First …
This morning and for the next few weeks we’re going to continue considering and highlighting parts of the Apostle John’s first epistle. If we had to provide a news-bite of why John wrote this letter, it might be this: that all might know and become what they should be—what God …
As last week we considered the Apostle Paul’s testimony concerning his encounter with the risen Christ during a time when Paul was actively persecuting Jesus’ followers, so we find here, in the opening lines of the Apostle John’s letter, his testimony concerning Jesus Christ. But an important difference between these …
By his own admission Paul the apostle was one who was “abnormally”—or in some translations “untimely”—born. As a Pharisee, Paul was an expert in the 39 books that comprise the Hebrew Scriptures or our Old Testament. He knew God’s Word inside and out. So as an expert in Jewish law, …
Where is God when we need him the most? Surely this is the question that begs for an answer in Psalm 22. Its author David, Israel’s most beloved King, provides no introduction, no transition, but simply dives right in as he states his despair, “1 My God, my God, why have …
I don’t know about you but I never really gave much thought to who Jesus Christ was until I was 17 and began attending a weekly high school youth group each Wednesday night—for all the wrong reasons. I was in the thick of filling out applications to various colleges and …
As I read the opening verses of our passage this past week, I was reminded of a question sometimes suggested to open up discussion when friends or family are gathered together: If you could meet anyone in the world, living or dead, who would that be? I imagine that for …
Have you ever wondered where the sun goes on a rainy—or snowy—or cloudy day? Since we can’t always see it, it can be easy to assume that there are days when it doesn’t rise at all. But, as we all know, this isn’t the case. Simply because we can’t see …
I confess that seeing how our passage, as my sermon title suggests, tells about the way to God isn’t something that is immediately obvious for what does Jesus clearing the temple of livestock and moneychangers have to do with our finding a path to God? The answer lies in verse …
