Sermons from May 2022

Sermons from May 2022

Jesus Prays For All Believers

Jesus Prays For All BelieversJohn 17:20-26Sunday, May 29, 2022 In certain parts of the Bible God is depicted as building a structure using people instead of stones, with Jesus Christ being the chief cornerstone. Jesus reflects this in the complex prayer that He offers as the role of a great High Priest. In it He speaks of us being One as He and the Father are One, which is baffling to me in that there is a word in the…

How the World Will Know

How the World Will Know 1 Corinthians 14:24-25; John 13:31-35 Sunday, May 22, 2022 at the First Congregational Church of Marshalltown, Iowa   Introduction              Josh McDowell, before his conversion to Christianity, once asked a group of Christian students the central point of the Christian story and learned that it was the Resurrection of Jesus.  If he could prove that to be false, he could discredit everything about Christianity.  He carefully researched and published the results but failed in his…

Hurry up and Wait

  Hurry Up and Wait Acts 9:1-6; John 21:15-19 Sunday, May 1, 2022 at The First Congregational Church of Marshalltown, Iowa   Introduction I once spent nearly four hours waiting to see a doctor.  He was an ears, nose and throat specialist and I was recovering from surgery.  Sometime soon after I arrived for my checkup, the patient he was currently seeing suddenly started to bleed from his nose and they couldn’t stop it, so it became this big emergency,…