Here is the video of the sermon I delivered on November 20, 2022.
Christ the Solid Rock – Matthew 7
Here is a sermon I delivered on November 20, 2022, at Grace Community Church, Fort Mill, SC.
Sermon Video: The Awesome Power of Worship
This is a video of the sermon I gave 02/12/2022. There was an outbreak of COVID at Grace Community United Methodist Church, so we closed church for the day, and I made this video for the congregation. https://youtu.be/xTVNfYFDOk0
The Awesome Power of Worship
Church February 12, 2022. The church closed for a week due to an outbreak of COVID so I rushed this video out to the congregation. It is a reworking of a sermon I gave several years ago.
Evangelism Part 4 – The Gospel of Boldness
Evangelism Part 4 - The Gospel of Boldness 2 Cor. 3:7-18 I am on Reddit quite a bit. I haven't posted there for a while, but I try and keep up with the "Ask a Christian" subreddit. In this discussion board, non-Christians ask a question to Christians. The goal is to be respectful and …
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The Kingdom of God Part 8: The Kingdom of God is at War
The great British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge once said that "The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact." The human condition of war is evidence of that. War involves pain. War involves sacrifice. War involves death. While war is identifiable, the pain, sacrifice, and death are the results of the kingdom of the enemy. That is what is resisted.
The Holy Spirit Fulfillment of Torah Law Part 2 of 2.
The question remains, what is the role of the Torah given the resurrection and ascension?
The Holy Spirit Fulfillment of Torah Law Part 1 of 2
Though the Old Testament, the Law, Torah enabled the people of Israel to have identification as a nation, know the character of YHWH, and have a moral/ceremonial/legal code of conduct, it could not offer complete salvation until the person and work of Jesus and the arrival of the new law, the Holy Spirit.
Jesus Breaths: The Reception of the Holy Spirit in John 20
In John 20, Jesus does something entirely unexpected. The resurrection itself was quite surprising, but now, in the upper room, Jesus breaths on the disciples and states, “Receive the Holy Spirit. John 20:22 (CSB). This essay will review the background understanding of the Holy Spirit for the Jewish disciples, exegesis of John 20:21-23 with observations and interpretations, and conclude with an application.
The Wandering Wesleyan 