Scripture: Matthew 23:13-22; 27:45-51 This Sunday we are continuing with our sermon series, Church and State. Last week we discussed how the destruction of Jerusalem was a pivotal moment in the lives of Jews everywhere. Not only was it devastating for the holiest city in Judaism to be...
Scripture: Mark 13:1-8; Revelation 21:1-7 This Sunday we are back to our sermon series, Church and State: The Rise of Early Christianity. We completed the first part of this series in November where we were tracking the rise of the early church from 30-70 A.D. In the last sermon I preached...
Scripture: Luke 3:7-16, Luke 17:20-21 We have come to the last sermon of Advent in our series, The Kingdom. Over the last three weeks, we have discussed three different influences on Jesus’ understanding of God’s Kingdom. The first week we discussed David and the Kingdom of...
Scripture: Daniel 7:13-27 Now that we are in the season of Advent, we are doing a sermon series called, The Kingdom. Each week, we will begin by talking about different aspects of history that formed the Jewish understanding of God’s kingdom and then explore how this history is...
Scripture: 2Chronicles 36:15-21; Isaiah 45:1-4 Now that we are in the season of Advent, we are doing a sermon series called, The Kingdom. Each week, we will begin by talking about different aspects of history that formed the Jewish understanding of God’s kingdom, and then explore how...
Scripture: 1Samuel 13:11-14; 1Kings 11:9-13 Now that we are in the season of Advent, we are going to take a break from our sermon series, Church and State. We’ll pick up the second part of the series after Christmas beginning in the New Year. Advent is a time where we anticipate and...
Scripture: Philippians 1:12-19; 20-26 This Sunday we come to the final sermon in the first part of our series, Church and State: The Rise of Early Christianity. Last week, we talked about the first real persecutions endured by Christians in the early church, when Emperor Nero targeted...
Scripture: 2Corinthians 11:23-31; Romans 13:1-7 This week for our series, Church and State: The Rise of Early Christianity, we are focusing on the first real persecution of Christians for which we have some evidence from sources other than the New Testament. To begin digging down into this...
Scripture: Acts 2:43-47; Luke 18:18-30 Last week for our series, Church and State: The Rise of Early Christianity, we discussed the reason why the number of Jews who believed in Jesus began to decline in the mid 50’s, while the number of non-Jews or Gentiles who believed in Jesus...
Scripture: Romans 9:1-5; 11:25-32 Last week for our series, Church and State: The Rise of Early Christianity, we concluded that if James, Jesus’ brother, is saying that becoming Jewish is essential to following Jesus, then we can be pretty sure that Jesus never intended for his...
