Sermons from September 2023
The Mercy Seat
Leviticus 16:1-2; Romans 3:21-25 Yom Kippur, Sunday, September 24, 2023 at The First Congregational Church of Marshalltown, Iowa This is the week of Yom Kippur in the Jewish Calendar. It is the religious New Year and a day of great significance. Still celebrated by fasting and spiritual worship to this day, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement was the day when the High Priest would sprinkle the blood of sacrifice upon the cover of the Ark of the Covenant and…
Creation and New Creation
Sunday, September 10, 2023 at The First Congregational Church of Marshalltown, Iowa Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. This Friday marks Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the civil New Year in the…
I Am
Exodus 3:13-15; John 8:53-58 Sunday, September 3, 2023 at The First Congregational Church of Marshalltown, Iowa I recently read about a discussion a pastor had with the church office manager about his sermon for the next Sunday. It’s title, “Jesus was the Greatest” and the office manager took exception to it and suggested that he change the title. The pastor was confused. What was wrong with it? It seemed to be grammatically correct and the Lord Jesus certainly loomed large…