Category «Sermon Notes»

This sermon is from a special service related to a ministry which we do at Lord of Life called Quilten Sunday. Throughout the year, ladies in our church gather to make quilts every week. At the end of the year on Quilten Sunday, they spread the quilts over the chairs in the church. It’s a …

Sermon – My Burden is Easy and My Yoke is Light

This sermon is from our service on July 9, 2017

Fourth Sunday of Easter

Sermon: Nicodemus and Being Born from Above

In today’s lesson we hear the Gospel of John, and specifically, John 3. John 3 has probably one of the best known Bible versus of all, John 3:16, which is “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so that he who believes in him may not perish but have eternal …

Sermon: Temptation and Our Relationship To God

We are now into the season of Lent, which is the season when we remember Jesus’s time in the wilderness where he fasted and was tempted by the Devil. As we recall Jesus’s experience, we see that temptation is not about just what we do or don’t do, but our relationship to God. Scripture text: Matthew …

Sermon: Seeing With Spiritual Eyes and The Transfiguration of Our Lord

How do we see in the world? Are we looking for God? Do we see God in thing world around us or do we see past Him to the things that are there? In today’s sermon, we hear of Jesus, Peter, James and his brother John, going up to a mountain top where Jesus is …

Sermon: Darkness is Where God Does Some of His Best Work

(Today’s sermon was delivered by guest pastor Tom Smith — this is a summary) Some of God’s best work is done in darkness. This Advent Sunday is a Sunday of Hope (we light the first advent candle). But before we see the light of the first candle, things are pretty dark. There’s a lot of …