Sermons on Psalms

Sermon: How to Forgive Your Enemies—and Your Friends: 5 Scriptural Steps to Total Forgiveness

[1Timothy 4:7-8] For better or for worse, we are creatures of habit. I learned this early when I was a newspaper delivery boy. A customer would tell me he was going to be on vacation for a week and not need a paper. Nevertheless, out of sheer habit, I would fling a paper up on his porch each day and have to pay for that paper myself.

Creation Care, Stewardship: The Theology of Ecology -- Genesis 1:1; 2:15

The oceans, forests, plains, rivers, lakes—all of that—it all belongs to God. You heard the old hymn earlier, "This Is My Father's World." In the early chapters of Genesis, God gives instructions as to how we're supposed to take care of this planet. There are really four key instructions that He delivered. He said He wanted us to subdue it, rule over it, work it and take care of it.

Are you excited about your life? Or do you feel as if you are merely existing? Are you moving with confidence toward a desired goal? Or do you feel as if you are drifting along from day to day without any sense of purpose or direction?

How can we have justice and forgiveness at the same time?

In many churches our time of worship begins with a "Call to Worship." The substance of what occurs during that time varies.

Psalm 1 It was a hot sticky day in the early part of June 1776 in

Let’s face it; reality is more steel than Superman will ever be made of.

Psalm 130 I want to take you on a journey this morning to an island somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean during World War II. The island is a strategic location for the United States Navy as they fight their way toward Japan, and as a part of that effort the navy is off-loading bombs a