AEFC Sermons

Most men will claim that their family is their highest priority. “My family comes first!” they say. Psalms 127 and 128 show what it takes to actually live this out. Here we meet one of the Bible’s great paradoxes – If we really want to put our families first, someone else needs to be ahead…

Many scholars think Psalm 32 is a sequel to Psalm 51. We don’t know this for sure since David doesn’t directly mention his sin with Bathsheba. But there are enough links between the two passages to make a pretty good case. And like all good sequels, there is a difference between the two psalms: Psalm…

Humorist Erma Bombeck once described guilt as “the gift that keeps on giving.” We smile because it’s true – guilt is one of our most difficult and persistent emotions. We’ve all known people who have struggled with guilt for things they did in the past. Some of us may even be those people. Which leads…

Trust is like a muscle. If we want stronger muscles, we need to do things that make our muscles stronger – lift weights, do push-ups, work the crunches, and so on. It turns out this principle applies to our spiritual muscles too. If we want our trust in the Lord to grow stronger, we need…

Psalm 121 has a message for God’s people as we walk along the road of life. The message is that the Lord is with us as we travel. In this sermon, we focus on why people on the move – whether literally or just figuratively – can face the road ahead with confidence.

An update from Ken Jordan on Bethany Camp.

What do an ancient warrior and a modern mom have in common? The answer is that they both need to turn to the Lord when they struggle! That’s the point of this Mother’s Day sermon from Psalm 27. In this psalm, King David reveals how he prayed in the midst of a great personal crisis.…

It all comes down to trust. That’s the message of Psalm 2. We can trust in ourselves, or our jobs, or our families, or our governments – or a thousand other possibilities. But in the end, Jesus Christ is the most worthy of our deepest and lasting confidence. In this sermon, we consider three reasons…

“The pulpit leads the world.” So writes Herman Melville in his classic novel, Moby Dick. In this installation sermon for Andrew Johnson as our church’s Associate Pastor, Pastor Don takes us through the Lord’s challenge to embrace the high calling of the ministry of God’s Word.

What does it take to bring people to Jesus? Andrew, one of the very first followers of Jesus, shows that it’s not as complicated as we so often make it. In this sermon, we look at three things it takes to bring people to the Lord.