Month: August 2021

BASIC BELIEVING: Forgiveness, the Heartbeat of Christ and the Church

August 29, 2021

Lessons: Hosea 11:7-9; Romans 6:1-11; Matthew 18:15-35 We are now approaching the end of the Apostles’ Creed. The last section reads: [I believe in] “the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic…

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BASIC BELIEVING: The Church’s One Foundation

August 22, 2021

When I was a boy way back in the 1950s, pretty much a Sunday School drop-out, I still learned this little ditty: “Here’s the church, here’s the steeple. Open the…

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BASIC BELIEVING: The Holy Spirit, God in Us

August 15, 2021

Lessons: Psalm 51:1-12; Acts 8:4-8,12,14-17; John 3:1-16 The Apostles’ Creed, as we have noted, is Trinitarian in shape and moves swiftly from naming God the Father, creator of heaven and…

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BASIC BELIEVING: Jesus Christ Our Lord

August 10, 2021

These three sermons concentrate on the central section of the Apostles’ Creed about Jesus Christ, His Incarnation, Atoning Death, Resurrection and Ascension, and His Second Coming in glory. Immanuel: God…

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BASIC BELIEVING: He Shall Come Again in Glory

August 9, 2021

Sermon Preached at Redeemer Anglican Church, BellevueAugust 8, 2021Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Lessons: Daniel 7:9-14; 1 Corinthians 15:50-58; Mark 13:23-32 After a two-week intermission, I am returning today to the…

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