Sermons 

Rebuilding and Reforming God’s Temple

  Psalm 69:8-9; Isaiah 56:6-7; Jeremiah 7:8-11; John 2:13-25 (text) November 1, 2015 • Download this sermon (PDF) Dear Congregation of Christ: Yesterday, many people celebrated a most unbiblical event, Halloween. It’s not only unbiblical, but God calls it an abomination, since it glorifies evil spirits and demons. He forbids us from all kinds of divination, “Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them” (Lev 19:31; Acts 16:16). But for most Reformed Christians, October 31 is better known as…

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The Wedding at Cana: Much More Than a Miracle

  Exodus 40:34-38; Ezekiel 10:18-19; John 2:1-11 (text) October 25, 2015 • Download this sermon (PDF) Dear Congregation of Christ: In the introduction to the Gospel of John, I mentioned that the Apostle John arranged his book not chronologically. He usually followed up an event in Jewish life, particularly their ceremonial feasts, with Jesus’ teaching concerning himself as the fulfillment of those feasts and institutions such as the temple. This is what John does in the story about the wedding at Cana where Jesus turned water into wine. Although this…

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