Sermons on Forgiveness (Page 2)
Genesis 48-50
Dying Well Note: This sermon was preached at a Bible Conference in Sebring, Florida. Dying well and dying with dignity are topics of much discussion in the medical and psychological communities today. But in choosing to talk about Dying Well today I am not principally addressing medical or psychological aspects of death, but rather spiritual ones. An ancient Roman emperor once said that the greatest difference between Christians and pagans is that “Christians die well.” He should have known, because he put many of them…
Luke 7:36-50
Have You Miscalculated Your Indebtedness? Every one of us likes stories, and Jesus was a storyteller par excellence. It just so happens that the first parable I am going to tackle is a parable about two debtors, but that is where the connection with last Sunday stops. Missionary aviation is a field of service that for the past fifty years has enabled the gospel to penetrate the most remote areas of the third world. About six years ago I left the southernmost…
Hebrews 9:11-28
The Blood of Christ Introduction: Christianity has been called a bloody religion, and so it is, but perhaps not in the sense that some mean by that. I had a philosophy professor at S.M.U. who blamed the bombing of Dresden in W.W. II, in which thousands died, on Christianity, as others have done with the Holocaust. That can only be done by reading history with a jaundiced eye. But there is another sense in which both Christianity and the Judaism from which it came…
2 Cor. 2:5-11
Satan’s Greatest Scheme What would you say is the most representative symbol of the Church of Jesus Christ? Would you suggest a cross? If so, you’re probably in the majority. What about a fish? The ICTHUS symbol of the early Christians would not be far off either. Or maybe you think of the open Bible or the Bread and the Wine or the helping hand. All of these are positive, even sacred, symbols of the Church, and they have profound meaning and significance for all who…
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