Type: Sermon

Hospitality and God’s Grace

Hospitality and God’s Grace

The Gospels include many accounts of Jesus’ eating with others. In Luke chapter 14, Jesus tells a parable of a feast. What is it in his teaching that contradicts everything we know about modern hospitality? Just what kind of hospitality is Jesus calling us to do? What was so shocking regarding the invited guests in Jesus’ parable? The text and sermon unwrap the inner ring, the open home, and the pauper’s feast.

How We Live as Believers

How We Live as Believers

In 2 Kings chapter 5, a slave girl prompts the Syrian general Naaman to seek help for his leprosy from the prophet Elisha. In what other ways was Naaman restored? Why did leprosy strike Gehazi, Elisha’s servant aide? What made the little captive slave girl a key to Naaman’s transformation? This sermon shows the marks of a person who met God, the marks of a person who misses God, and one who enables us to meet God.

This Month's Featured Book

What Is Wrong with the World?

Deep down we all know something isn’t right with the world when we see the violence and injustice all around us. Like anything that needs to be fixed, the problem must first be identified. That problem is clearly identified in the Bible: it’s sin. And the remedy is just as clear: Jesus Christ.