Posts with the tag “ellyn-schwaiger”

╬   Lord, we praise you for how you create and sustain all things through the intricacies of time and space and through the complexities of our lives. Not a hair falls from our heads that you do not know about. We have so much to be thankful for. Please forgive us when we lose perspective. Put your praise on our lips and in our hearts. Help us today to be a concrete reason that someone else praise...  Read More

Sermon Title: Finding Enduring PeaceScripture: Zechariah 9:9-12 (NIV)“Rejoice, O people of Zion! Shout in triumph, O people of Jerusalem! Look, your king is coming to you.He is righteous and victorious, yet he is humble, riding on a donkey—riding on a donkey’s colt.”Zechariah 9:9 NLTAs we conclude our Lenten journey, on this Palm Sunday we enter Holy Week and prepare our hearts for the devastating...  Read More

Sermon Title: Fallen Hero – SamsonScripture: Judges 13-16 (NIV) “Sovereign Lord, remember me. Please, God, strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes.” Judges 16:28In today’s text, we consider the colorful life of Samson, another of Israel’s judges. Samson was born to Manoah, a man from the tribe of the Danites, during a period of Philisti...  Read More

Sermon Title: Strong Faith, Weak TheologyScripture: Judges 10:6-12:7 (NIV)“We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think best, but please rescue us now.” Judges 10:15We begin today by encountering the Israelites during another period in which they “did evil in the eyes of the Lord” (10:6) by serving the deities of the peoples around them. For eighteen years, the text records, the Israelites were s...  Read More

Sermon Title: When Weakness Is EnoughScripture: Judges 7 (NIV) “When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, then from all around the camp blow yours and shout, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon.’” Judges 7:17-18Last week, we saw how God called Gideon son of Joash the Abiezrite to “go out in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand” (6:14). Despite his relatively low status, “the...  Read More