Month: January 2026

• The sermon on Sunday, February 1, 2026, will be Revelation 5:1-14 – Worthy is the Lamb. .. “And one of the elders said to me, ‘Weep no more; …’” – Revelation 5:5

  The Apostle John’s vision into God’s throne-room continues with God the Father holding a sealed scroll in his right hand. The scroll contained God’s plan for human history and the redemption of his chosen people. A strong angel queried, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” John, who was caught up in the drama of the vision, began to weep because there was no one worthy in the created order to break the seals, and thus, set in motion God’s plan of redemption. Yet, one of the 24 elders declared to John, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.” Christ has conquered; he is seated now at God’s right hand; he is building his church and accomplishing God’s plans for history.

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The sermon on Sunday, January 25, 2026, will be Revelation 5:5 – Christ the Conqueror. “And one of the elders said to me, ‘Weep no more; …’” – Revelation 5:5

The Apostle John’s vision into God’s throne-room continues with God the Father holding a sealed scroll in his right hand. The scroll contained God’s plan for human history and the redemption of his chosen people. A strong angel queried, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” John, who was caught up in the drama of the vision, began to weep because there was no one worthy in the created order to break the seals, and thus, set in motion God’s plan of redemption. Yet, one of the 24 elders declared to John, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.” Christ has conquered; he is seated now at God’s right hand; he is building his church and accomplishing God’s plans for history.

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The sermon on Sunday, January 18, 2026, will be Revelation 4:1-11- Looking Through Heaven’s Door. “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.” – Revelation 4:8

Have you ever desired to gaze into heaven? We can gaze into the ‘heavens’ which contain the sun, moon, stars, comets, and galaxies. We cannot gaze into the unseen heaven, the heaven in which God dwells. But we can read the testimony of a man who did gaze into heaven, God’s throne-room. This man was the Apostle John – a man chosen by Jesus Christ to be an Apostle, a special messenger of divine revelation to us. For him, “… a door standing open in heaven …” appeared to him in a vision. And he writes to us about a throne he saw, who was seated on it, and the song the angels sing, “Holy, holy, holy, ….”

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The sermon on Sunday, January 11, 2026, will be Revelation 3:14-22 – Laodicea: A Church to Revive. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock.”  – Revelation 3:20

I struggle crafting good sermon titles. My congregation knows this and has unlimited patience with me due to my deficiency. I am not imaginative. But I ‘think’ I have a good one for my sermon about the church in Laodicea – ‘When Jesus Stands Outside the Church Doors and Knocks.’ I am certainly not trying to be flippant about a most troubling reality. Some churches hold the Lord Jesus at arm’s length. They may have a pastor who does not faithfully expound the Bible through whom Christ speaks. Or, they may have a faithful pastor, and yet, they turn a deaf ear to his clear exposition of the Word of God. No matter the reason for Jesus’s exclusion from one of his congregations, he still mercifully stands outside and knocks.

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