Sermons from February 2024

What You Asked – Deuteronomy 18:15-16

What You Asked De. 18:15-16 “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen—just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’” For context, today’s words from Moses are spoken about 40…

Second Time Around – Jonah 3:1-2

Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” In today’s OT reading we find a reminder that our God is the God of second chances. Jonah is a well-established and evidently well-to-do prophet of Israel in the mid-700’s BC. He was called to leave his comfortable ministry to the royal court of Jeroboam II and go to…