Sermon: David and the Defiant Giant
One of the most popular stories in the Bible is the account of David and Goliath. Traditionally, this passage is taught as a lesson on how to face our own personal giants of problems, worries, trials, etc.—and that’s how I planned to teach it. But as I studied the passage and then slept on it,
The Wrath of God
The 2 minute video below illustrates the current thinking about God from the man on the street. When I asked people on The Strand in Hermosa Beach if God is a God of wrath, people overwhelmingly said no. Surprised? I used this as an illustration from a sermon I preached over the weekend called “The Wrath of God,” based on Romans 1:18-32. When I read it to my wife before the church service, she cried, because it reflects the current dismal culture in which we live (I ended up revising it and wrote a hopeful ending). Nineteen people made some type of profession of faith during the weekend.
If you’d like to listen to the sermon, click here then scroll down to February 5, 2010. You can read it below, too. If you’d like to preach it and want the PowerPoint presentation, all you have to do is leave a comment.
Sermon: THE WRATH OF GOD (Romans 1:18-32)
2/5/10
A subject that’s rarely talked about in Christianity these days is the idea of a wrathful God; it goes against the wishful thinking of unbelievers (who certainly don’t want an angry God to exist), and most Christians would prefer not to think about him in this way at all.
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