Sermons on Sovereignty of God

Sermons on Sovereignty of God

Matthew 2:13-23

When God Doesn’t Make Sense         Note:  This sermon was preached by Associate Pastor Jeff Schultz at First Free St. Louis. Introduction:  How are things going for you? Is life working out the way you planned? Maybe things are going well, but you still fear that if you don’t keep it together, things will fall apart? We follow a God who doesn’t always (or often!) do things the way we would – what makes sense to us is often not the way God…

ecclesiates 3:1-22

The Tyranny of Time and Eternity Two of the most incomprehensible terms in the English language are “time” and “eternity.”  Have you ever tried to define these words?  Years ago I conducted a rather thorough search for a workable definition of time.  About the best I could come up with was the following: “Time is the mere abstract possibility of events in durational sequence.”  Now if you take pains to examine that definition and to digest each part of it very carefully, you will probably be forced to admit you don’t understand what time is…

Ecclesiastes 11:1-6

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained Note:  This sermon was preached at First Free Wichita by Associate Pastor Phil Thengvall. Introduction:  Today’s global economic uncertainty has a way of paralyzing nations, corporations, small business owners, families, and individuals. Yesterday, The Washington Post said that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner confirmed that Aug. 2 remained the deadline for raising the $14.3 trillion debt limit. On that date the United States will begin to default on its obligations without additional borrowing authority, setting in motion the “catastrophic…

Esther 2

Introducing the Hero and the Heroine Introduction: Last Lord’s Day we launched a summer series on the book of Esther.  It’s rare that I urge you to go to our website to read sermons, but if you missed last week’s, I hope you will go back and read it (or listen to it) because we offered a lot of background information that is important in order to put the rest of the story in context.   In the first chapter…