Sermons on Dedication

Sermons on Dedication

Exodus 2

The Development of a Deliverer SPEAKER: Brad Harper Introduction:  Please turn in your Bibles to the second chapter of the Book of Exodus and listen carefully to the Word of the Lord: Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 2 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. 3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with…

Nehemiah 12:27-47

A Celebration of Joy Introduction:  Two and a half years ago I stood at the Berlin Wall and watched as hundreds of young people, under the confused and helpless gaze of East German guards, chipped away at that hated symbol of Communist repression.  To the German people that wall divided them from their families, from their fellow-countrymen, and from the ideals of freedom and opportunity.  There was no joyful dedication when that wall was erected in 1961, only when it was torn down…

Romans 12:1-2

Transformed, Not Conformed   Introduction:  From last Thanksgiving until the end of June I taught you from the book of Romans, the magnum opus of the greatest theologian in the history of the Christian church. In those first eleven chapters we were confronted with the profoundest of theological themes, from sin to justification to sanctification to glorification. Today we return to the book of Romans, and the first word we find in chapter 12 is a clear indication of transition. It is…