SPCC Blog tagged 'Sermons'

Babies who die and the goodness of God

bryan@spcc-cma.org — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Tonight in Jim's sermon on Romans 5:12-21 we hit a passage of scripture that became precious to me a few years ago. While this is a fairly complicated passage of scripture, it is nonetheless worth digging into.

As John Piper once said, "If you rake, all you get are leaves. But if you dig, you just might find diamonds." This has been my experience with this passage. Jim did an excellent job of explaining the core concept: our main issue is not th [...]

Reflections on this week's Sermon--wrath.

bryan@spcc-cma.org — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:00:00 +0100

This past weekend, Tim talked in the message about how a proper understanding of the wrath of God is necessary for an appropriate understanding of the love of God. Today I was reading an exerpt from a sermon by 16th century preacher Jonathan Edwards entitled "The Excellency of Christ" . Here is what he said...

"There meet in Jesus Christ, infinite justice and infinite grace.

"As Christ is a divine person, he is infinitely holy and ju [...]

Too old to have a baby?

bryan@spcc-cma.org — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Last week in Jim's sermon, he talked about Abraham and Sarah having a baby when they were really old--into their 90's. He alluded to the world record for having a baby...here it is .

Summer Sermon Series Input

bryan@spcc-cma.org — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:00:00 +0100

This summer we'll do a Top 10 sermon series where we take the top 10 topics that you want to hear a sermon on and preach through them over ten weeks.SUBMITTING YOUR IDEAS IS NOW CLOSED. THE POLLS ARE OPEN UNTIL JUNE 1. SO VOTE TODAY! Here's how to weigh in...

VOTE!

STEP ONE: Give us your topics. These mig [...]