Category: Sermon Thoughts

  • Biblical Promises of Answered Prayer

    Intercession and petition are part of our prayer lives.  God does encourage us to interact with him by taking our requests.  In Philippians, Paul says, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.  And the peac eof God, which surpasses…

  • Biblical Reasons God does not answer some prayers

    The Bible promises that God answers the prayers of his people.  But there are occasions in the Scriptures where God does not answer, and in some texts, does not even hear our prayers.  This does not mean that God needs a hearing aid, rather that prayer is first and foremost a relational activity between God…

  • Biblical reasons to pray

    I mentioned on Sunday that I was going to publish a few blogs this week on the issue of prayer and our prayer lives.  I am going to pick several topics about prayer, and then let the Bible speak for itself.  Most of these will be lists with Scripture passages.  In this blog I am…

  • Modern Issues and Lying – By Weston Ely

    This past Sunday, we looked at Jesus’ moral teaching about taking oaths. The root of his teaching exposes our tendency to be dishonest. I used four categories to classify the reasons that we lie (Apathetic lies, Cowardly lies, Manipulative lies, and Malevolent lies). I also proposed that loving God and loving others is a formula…

  • Making sense of persecution

    Trying to make sense of a world where multitudes of people whoa re serving God suffer persecution as a result can be pretty tough.  We can wonder where God is and what he is doing when hearing of followers of  Jesus who are jailed, have their children taken away, or are killed for their faith. …