Month: November 2016

Text: Malachi 3:13-18
Date: Last Sunday of the Church Year + Proper 29 + 11/20/16

“Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.”

This is the last Sunday of the Church Year. What have you learned since Advent 2015, how have you changed, Continue reading “The Distinction of the Righteous”

 

Text: Malachi 4:1-6
Date: Pentecost 26 + Proper 28 + 11/13/16

The day is coming. What day? The Day of Judgment.

You know there are only two eternal alternatives, heaven or hell. The problem is we forget that. We Christians tend to forget that mainly because, though we’ve heard and believe that there is a place called hell we don’t think about it much. And that for good reason. Because we have also heard and believed in our deliverance from hell. We never hear sermons totally about judgment and hell because the point of the Christian sermon is to proclaim the answer, God’s answer to the threat of the punishment of our sins, namely, that Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, has already endured God’s punishment of sin on behalf of the whole world, your sin, my sin, all the sins of others. He saved us from all that and has given the gift of eternal life through the forgiveness of our sins. Continue reading “The Day is Coming”