Category: Prophets

05-Nov-23 Micah 3:5-12 I probably should have titled this sermon, “Nothing For the Mouth, Nothing From the Mouth. Nothing For the Pocket, Nothing to Make you Feel Good”, but that would have been too many words to squeeze into the bulletin. And even though it is an apt allusion to this passage, it is also […]

11-Jun-23 Jeremiah 20:7-13 Jeremiah is sometimes called the “weeping prophet”, sometimes called the “naked prophet”, but always called the “reluctant prophet.” Jeremiah did not like his job at all. In fact, he resented it. His task as prophet brought all kinds of grief to him. He did not find great joy and satisfaction in his […]

21-May-23 1 Samuel 18:1-11 The friendship between Jonathan and David has attained legendary status. Almost everyone knows about this famous friendship, and much has been written about it. Some of it is very complimentary and some of it is not so complimentary at all. In spite of the legendary status of this famous friendship though, […]

26-Mar-23 Ezekiel 37:1-14 5th Sunday in Lent And they were very dry. The vision that Ezekiel sees in his dream is one of hopelessness and desolation. Ezekiel has been caught up by the Spirit of the Lord, and that same Spirit has set him down in a valley that is littered with the evidence of […]

29-Jan-23 Micah 6:1-8 It is a lot like being neglected by one’s lover, and wondering why. The lover has grown cold, standoffish, spurning one’s affections and advances. And it seems as though there is no reason at all for this cold, and unresponsive behavior. And then, the discovery, the awful discovery, that the lover has […]

13-Nov-22 Malachi 4 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen. I can’t think of a more wonderful blessing to bestowed upon us. Can you? Wrapped up in that blessing is the entirety of this life and the whole of eternity. The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the […]

06-Nov-22 Haggai 2:1-9 The year is probably 520 BC. By most of our reckonings, that was a very long time ago, and for us, it is very likely lost in the hazy mists of irrelevancy, perhaps forever. Nobody wants to hear anything about what happened on June 14, 1992, much less than anything that happened […]

Isaiah 1:10-20 16-Oct-22 “Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!” By the time that Isaiah is writing his prophecy, the much despised cities of Sodom and Gomorrah have long been gone. In fact, they have both been gone for centuries. There […]

02-Oct-22 Jeremiah 32:1-15 This morning, there’s a real estate deal in the works. Under normal circumstances, the property under consideration is clearly a wise purchase. But these are not normal circumstances. Some people seem to have a knack for dabbling in real estate, and the last year or so has been grand for most of […]

21-Aug-22 Hosea 1:1-11 It is not always easy, nor is it always appropriate, to try to avoid words in the Scriptures that might be unsettling to us. Sometimes the Scriptures are more explicit than we would like them to be, and this morning’s reference to the world’s oldest profession reminds us of that. God’s word […]