Sermons The Power of a Thankful Heart - Nov 30, 2025 A
Thanksgiving Day followup. The Pilgrims and Puritans were a
people living in deep thanks to God for the way he led, protected, and
ultimately prospered them. But over time the struggle to stay on
that course has been very mixed ...at time excellent (under excellent
leadership + God's own interventions with his Great Awakenings) and at
times most horrible. And where do things today stand on this
matter? (50 minutes ... 4 minutes in) Look Higher: Speak the Truth & Keep the Faith - Oct 20, 2024 A
sermon message about America staying on track as a Society disciplined
by the sense of a higher call from God to live as a great
moral-spiritual example to the world ... something that comes from the
hearts of the American people themselves ... not from some government
program or judicial decree. And a clear example of how that works
is the way the American people themselves moved quickly to bring needed
assistance to those hit hard in North Carolina by Hurricane
Helene. (44 minutes ... 5 minutes in). A July 4th Message about America's Covenant with God - Jun 30, 2024
I was asked by my son-in-law Rimi to give the sermon for the lead up to
the 4th of July. Actually it's not a sermon but more a
"conversation" ... about God's call on America to be a "Light to the
Nations" ... Christ's way ... in the face of a huge American drift away
from its original Christian foundations. (33 minutes ... 4
minutes in). Part Two of My Personal Testimony - Feb 18, 2024 This
Sunday message is sort of a followup to the sermon the previous
November, requested by parishioners who wanted to hear more of my story
about my spiritual journey. The first portion of this sermon is a
summary of the last portion of the previous sermon ... my initial
return to the faith. The rest brings us up to date ... the
journey (in pursuit of Christ) as a born-again husband, father, pastor,
teacher and finally author ... letting God, not my sense of reason or
personal programming, lead the way. My part actually begins 6
minutes into the video ... and is long, almost an hour in length (as
you have figured out by now, sermons at the New Awakening Church run
much longer than traditional sermons!) Part One of My Personal Testimony - Nov 26, 2023 In
this Sunday message I explain my own journey ... my movement from
a rather standard form of Christianity as a youth, the loss of that
faith – though I took up numerous adventures only because I knew there
was a "Hand" on my life – then a journey into a well-programmed
professional life (professor, housing construction, political-risk
consultant), then into a world of total confusion when that
well-programmed world failed to make any sense at all, then the arrival
of individuals that brought Christ (not just Christianity) into my
life, and finally my own call to Christian ministry. My part
actually begins 7 minutes into the video ... and runs almost 50
minutes!.
A 4th of July Message - Jul 4, 2021 This
is a Sunday sermon, or rather teaching, about how the American
commoners who in 1776 declared their independence from the highly
authoritarian English King George III were able to achieve a totally
unprecedented success – against all odds (all other historical examples
ending up with the rebels all being hung or shot) – because they
understood that they were doing God's work in their fight to preserve
the American social experiment as a "City on a Hill," a "Light to the
Nations." They full well knew that they were a society
established by God himself to show the rest of the world how God wanted
deeply all of his people to be able to govern themselves fully,
inspired to undertake greater things simply by their full faith in God
... and directed wisely by his (Biblical) instructions. In short
– the American effort to preserve its independence succeeded only
because God was with them. My part actually begins 8 minutes into
the video and runs around 45 minutes. Sort of a Wrapping Up of Another Christian Year - Dec 27, 2020 A sermon/history lesson delivered on December 27, 2020 at the New Awakening Church in Schuylkill Haven. I teach when I preach, and I preach when I teach. This is a bit of both ... about how God has "awakened" America in the past rather repeatedly – when it drifts off into self-rationalizing projects, projects which bring confusion and breakdown in the American social fabric. And he sparks these awakenings through just ordinary people ... people like us, people willing to let God (and not human rationalizations) lead them. And ... it seems that we Americans find ourselves in exactly the same condition today – needing God to deliver us from our social folly with another Awakening. We need a "New Awakening"! My part actually begins 4 minutes into the video and runs a full hour. |
