23 Sermons Tagged "Grace"

Before he was crucified, Jesus was mocked and ridiculed, and even today people around the world mock and ridicule both him and his teachings. Because of all of that, it may be hard to see him as a king, let alone the king of all creation. Through the first epistle to the Corinthians, however, we see how and where he is ruling today, and we know how and where he will rule on the Last Day.

Jesus told the Parable of the Wicked Tenants to the chief priests and the Pharisees and ended it by telling them "the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces its fruit." However, we can apply this parable to ourselves, since, as members of the priesthood of all believers, we are the ones that produce the fruits of faith.

The Apostle Peter's message to slaves, encouraging them to submit to their masters, teaches us how and why we are to bear the injustices that come into our lives.

We learn from Jesus giving sight to the blind man why God allows negative things to come into our lives (like the current Coronavirus Disease COVID-19 pandemic) and how He uses them for our good and for the good of others.

The words of Caiaphas and the Pharisees in the Sanhedrin, which lead to their plotting of Jesus' murder, show us one of the Ironies of the Passion.

It is often not a sheep that you would want in the flock, but that sheep is made valuable to the shepherd and to the flock, and God is glorified by His grace to His sheep.

It is amazing grace that God answers and hears our prayers: He talks to us, and we get to be in his presence. We can petition Him (even over and over again), and He answers our prayers according to what is best for us.