Assistant: Your coming to our world, Lord Jesus, brought blessing and judgment: help us to benefit from both. People: Help us to trust you, that we may be those who live through even the dryness of life in this troubled world. Pastor: And have us mindful that if we turn from you, we will dry up in spirit, and have no part in your kingdom. Assistant: Your death and your resurrection, Lord Jesus, gi...
For a Child Trapped in a Fire Psalms 121 and 23Romans 8:31-39Colossians 1:3-6 and 11, 121 John 4:7-21Matthew 11:25-30Mark 10:13-16John 14:1-6 and 27 In our day the funeral of a child is an infrequent experience for a pastor. Nevertheless, each of us will encounter this situation without warning, and need to minister to it. The background for this sermon was the death of a five and a half year old ...
Pastor: There are times when your very loving graciousness condemns us, Lord God.
Assistant: There were those of the Hebrew people who were scared to leave slavery in Egypt, for there they at least knew what to expect.
People: There are times we are afraid to strike out in lives of faith for fear of what it may require of us, of what it may lead us to.
Pastor: There are times when we forget the...
