Matthew 25:31-46Revelation (vv34-34) + Fostering Hope (vv35-40) + Salvation (vv41-46) With many guests present for Fostering Hope Sunday, Pastor Dave took pains to explain salvation. He preached from the “sheep and goats” passage in Matthew 25, which can cause confusion about...
Revelation 16:17-21 Pastor Dave’s sermon had two parts – a discussion of the seventh bowl of God’s wrath and also a meditation on why God has not yet poured out that final wrath. Dave introduced his second theme by observing that we sometimes impatiently ask, “Why...
Revelation 16:12-16Sixth Bowl – Assembled for Battle The pouring out of the sixth bowl of God’s wrath assembles the kings of the earth for the battle of Armageddon against Israel. Just as there have been many little-a antichrists down through the ages that foreshadow the end-times...
Revelation 16:1-11The First Five Bowls of Wrath This week’s passage is full of gruesome details: harmful and painful sores, water – salt and fresh – turned to blood, fierce and scorching heat from the sun, darkness, people gnawing their tongues in anguish. God’s wrath...
Revelation 15:1-8Wrath and WorshipPastor Dave began his sermon by observing that the unbelieving world calls God’s wrath harsh and unfair. Some unbelievers go further and accuse Him, and us as His people, of being sadistic. I just reread A Tale of Two Cities, a story set during the French...