Sermons from December 2024
Ebenezer: Reflecting on God’s Faithfulness and Looking Ahead
Throughout scripture, the people set up markers to remember God’s faithfulness. The Ebenezer “Stone of help” is one of these. As we close out 2024, it is good to look back and reflect on the year that has happened, and give thanks to God for his faithfulness. But ours is a forward…
What Can I Give
Caleb Woodrum John 19:16-27 Love Bears the Weight of Sacrifice ( John 19:17–18 ) “Carrying His own cross, He went out to the place of the Skull… There they crucified Him.” Jesus carried the literal weight of the cross, but more importantly, He carried the spiritual burden of humanity’s sin. His love…
Who is Your King?
In John 19:1-17, Jesus trial continues, but there is more on trial than merely Jesus the man. The very nature of truth, power, and authority are also put on trial here. Jesus is the King the people need, the king who was promised, but not, perhaps the king they wanted. So then — as now — people reject him, and choose to follow others. At the end of it all, the…
Jesus Before Pilate
Christian creeds affirm the truth that Jesus “was crucified for us, under Pontius Pilate”. This truth, historical and factual, grounds the Christian faith and gospel narrative not in the realms of mythology, but history. In John 18:28-40, we read about this time when Jesus stands trial before the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, at the request of the Jewish…