Tag Archives: Fullfillment

Five Names for the Christ Child and What They Mean

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In the ninth chapter of Isaiah five names are given to the Messiah. This Christmas Eve sermon invites you to consider what each reveals about the Christ child. At our service the sermon was bracketed by two selections from Handel’s Messiah. The links before and after the sermon will take you to recordings on YouTube. The recordings are not essential for understanding the sermon, but may add to your enjoyment.

Handel’s Messiah “Unto Us a Son is Given”.

Handel’s Messiah “Hallelujah Chorus”

Christmas Eve 2018
Isaiah 9:6-7

Trust and Wait

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Christians are often troubled when they see God help others, but not them. Why some are miraculously healed and others are not is difficult to understand.

Luke records a time when John the Baptist sent two disciples to ask, “Are you the one who is to come or shall we expect another.” They had heard what Jesus was doing, but what he wasn’t doing concerned them and they were struggling. Jesus answered gently and with great respect for John, referring to what the prophet Isaiah had foretold and saying in effect, “trust me.”

Waiting for Christ’s Return

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Being ready for Christ’s return isn’t a matter of knowing when it will occur, it is rather a question of being faithful to the tasks we have been given. You don’t need chats and diagrams to understand what Jesus said in Mark 13, just simple faith in your savior.

Dry Bones

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God took Ezekiel out to a valley where dry, human bones littered the ground and asked him, “Can these bones live?” Jeremiah had foreseen the destruction that took place there. Jesus used the valley as a metaphor for hell. Yet, the message God gave Ezekiel was  a message of hope grounded in the power of God’s Word and Spirit.

P.S. You can get these sermons as a podcast. Just copy the URL below into your podcast player.

https://stpaulwapello.org/category/devotional/feed/

 

As Sure As Yesterday’s Sunrise

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Christians sometimes forget God has promised us a wonderful new heaven and a new earth. But God hasn’t forgotten and His promises are as sure as yesterday’s sunrise.This is the third sermon in the series “Messages of Hope from the Revelation to St. John.”

 

Come Down, O Lord!

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Isaiah, the prophet, cried out to God, “O that you would rend the heavens and come down!”  But if God comes in his glory, Isaiah wonders, can we be saved? For in his words, “we have been long in our sins.”

This short sermon explains how God came and still comes to his people to save them.