Three Right Relationships with God
Text: Romans 1:16–20 Hallelujah! May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the peace of God our Father be with you all abundantly. Our God has made His power and divine nature clearly visible to humanity through the created world. No complex object can come into being by mere chance. For example, would you…
Receive the Holy Spirit
Text: Romans 8:7–18 Hallelujah! May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the peace of God our Father be abundantly upon each of you. Dearly beloved, every one of us must one day leave this world. Death is an unavoidable reality, and Hebrews 9:27 declares plainly: “It is appointed for man to die once,…
I Will Pour Out My Spirit on You
Joel 2:21–32 Dear beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, May the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be abundantly upon each of us today. The passage we have read from the book of Joel speaks of God’s promise of restoration—restoration that lifts us from despair to hope, from barrenness to a stream of…
Three Reproofs of the Holy Spirit
Text: John 16:8-11 Hallelujah!May the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be poured out abundantly upon all of us today. To us who believe in Jesus Christ, who died on the cross and rose again,God has poured out His marvelous grace,and that grace is none other than the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit…
The Substance of the Shadow: The Resurrection
Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:42–44; Hebrews 8:5 Introduction: This World Is Not the Ultimate RealityHallelujah! May the grace and peace of our risen Lord Jesus Christ fill the hearts of every one of you here today. Beloved brothers and sisters,Today is Resurrection Sunday—Easter.But we do not gather on this holy day merely to recall a…
What Was Accomplished on the Cross
1 John 3:8–9 Dear beloved in Christ,Today is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week, when we remember the day Jesus Christ entered the city of Jerusalem, and the multitudes welcomed Him with palm branches in their hands. In the ancient Near East, palm trees held a special symbolic meaning. They could thrive in the…