by Justin Marple | Dec 22, 2013 | 2013 Sermons, SERMONS, Wisdom of Christmas
Luke 2:22-38 is the story of two wise ‘waiters.’ While we are waiting for Christmas presents or Christmas dinner, they were waiting for the coming of the Christ. In fact, Simeon’s whole life revolved around waiting for the coming of Christ. Christ...
by Justin Marple | Dec 15, 2013 | 2013 Sermons, SERMONS, Wisdom of Christmas
Matthew 2:1-12 is the story of the wise men coming to visit Jesus and give him gifts. Yet Christmas has become all about giving gifts to our children and exchanging ‘gifts’ with our friends. More than this, Christmas materialism has become its very own...
by Justin Marple | Dec 7, 2013 | 2013 Sermons, SERMONS, Wisdom of Christmas
John 1:1-14 in canonical context is the inspiration for this topical message on Jesus being Wisdom in the flesh. There are many people who simply do not yet get why Christ came and took on flesh. In the Old Testament, God’s wisdom was poetically personified as...
by Justin Marple | Dec 1, 2013 | 2013 Sermons, SERMONS, Wisdom of Christmas
This season of Advent we are going to explore the wisdom of Christmas. By this, I do not mean the way that the world celebrates Christmas. A case in point of the folly of the world’s wisdom concerning Christmas would be Clark Griswold in National...
by Justin Marple | Nov 27, 2013 | 2013 Sermons, SERMONS
Luke 17:11-19 is the story of Jesus and the tenth leper. This leper was a leper twice-over. He was a social and religious outcast because of his disease and his nationality. But what really set the tenth leper apart from the other nine was his faith in Jesus. And...
by Justin Marple | Nov 24, 2013 | 2013 Sermons, Faith under Pressure (Daniel), SERMONS
Daniel 11:40-12:13 brings the book of Daniel to a close, but we probably remember this passage much less than the stories we saw earlier in the book. One of the reasons people struggle with the last couple chapters of Daniel is that we think, “Well, that is...
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