Proverbs Sermons 

“How Precious is Your Steadfast Love, O God!”

The coronavirus and all the evil and sufferings in the world does not mean the world is about to end, but are mere birth pains leading to the joy of childbirth (Matt 24:6-8). And that childbirth is the return of our Lord Jesus Christ from heaven to free us from sin and sufferings in this world.

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Ephesians Proverbs Sermons 

“Speak the Truth in Love”

Proverbs 10:19; 15:1; Ephesians 4:11-16 October 21, 2018 • Download this sermon (PDF) Dear Congregation of Christ: Guess how many things are posted by people from all over the world on Facebook daily: 293,000 statuses, 510,000 comments, and 136,000 photos. This means that people around the world will have written 422 million posts by the end of this year. How many tweets do people publish? 350,000 every minute, or 500 million per day. And to top it all off, there are over 350 million blogs on the Internet. Everyone wants…

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Hebrews Proverbs Sermons 

“The Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith”

  Proverbs 3:11-12; Hebrews 12:1-17 (text) May 14, 2017 • Download this sermon (PDF) Congregation of Christ: In 203 A.D., about a century after John the last apostle died, there was a young Christian woman who was in prison awaiting her execution for being a Christian. When her pagan father visited her in prison, he tried to persuade her to renounce her faith in Christ. According to some accounts, there was this conversation: “Father do you see this vase here? Could it be called by any other name than what…

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Proverbs Sermons 

The Beginning of Wisdom

  During the VBS and parsonage construction on June 27-July 1, Pastor Adrian preached a series of five messages on the Book of Proverbs. The first sermon was preached before our congregation together with the two teams. The next four were spoken before the two teams on Monday-Thursday evenings, so they were focused more on the youth. I’ll be posting the messages here. Here’s the first one. Text: Proverbs 1:7; Reading: Proverbs 1:1-7 * Download this sermon (PDF) By Rev. Adrian Dieleman, Trinity United Reformed Church, Visalia, California “You are…

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