Sermons from September 2022
Ehud, the Left handed
If you please turn with me in your Bibles to Judges chapter 3 beginning at verse 12. And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel, and they took possession of the city of Palms.…
Othniel, Caleb’s Nephew | Sermon on Judges 3:7-16
If you’ll please turn with me in your Bibles to Judges chapter 3 beginning at verse 7. And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asherah. Therefore, the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Kushan-Rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Kushan-Rishathaim eight years. But when the people…
The Judges and the Testing of Israel | Sermon on Judges 2:16-3:7
Please turn with me. Our scripture reading today comes from Judges chapter 2, beginning at verse 16. Then the Lord raised up judges who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the Commandments of the Lord, and they did not do…
A Curse for Disobedience and the Death of the Old Guard | Sermon on Judges 2:1-16
This morning our scripture reading comes from Judges chapter 2, verses 1 through 16. You’ll turn with me, please. Now the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bokhem, and he said, ‘I brought you up from Egypt and swore and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you, and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall…