Sermons from October 2023

If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. The central and most important claim of the Christian Scriptures is that they are true. Not man’s ever-changing, continually nuanced versions of truth. God’s truth. Revealed truth. Eternal as the God who is the ultimate standard of truth. Truth anchored in the person and nature of the one who made the heavens and the earth, who…

Philippians 3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. By the time the Apostle Paul wrote this letter to the Christians in Philippi he’d been serving Jesus for about 30 years. He had suffered much for the gospel: imprisonments, hunger, illness, persecution, stoning, and as he mentions in today’s reading the loss of all he once held dear to his former Jewish faith and heritage. The words spoken by Jesus…