"Sacrifice" Tagged Sermons
Hope Camps Pt 5: The Serpent In The Wilderness
There are portion of the Bible that are hard to be understood, one of the most challenging is Jesus own portrayal of himself in the gospel of John 3:14-15, a representation of the serpent in the wilderness by which the people of Israel, in the Old Testament, beholding with their eyes, could be healed of the deadly bites they received as punishment for their sin. The brazen serpent hanging on that pole in the wilderness of Numbers 21 was a…
Our Example of Humility
Christ: Our Example of Humility [Reading: Philippians 2:1-11] Introduction: There are so many reasons to love this passage. We talk quite frequently in regards to apostasy or a falling away and I look at this passage and compare it to my experience of church in times past and the message I see promoted in modern churches in particular. It is one of: Self-esteem [which is pride] Self-entitlement [which is covetousness] Self-importance [which is idolatry] Under this premise there is the…