AEFC Sermons

“There is a time for everything,” it says in Ecclesiastes 3:1, “and a season for every activity under the heavens” – including sex! At least according to Proverbs 5, anyway. Proverbs 5:15-23 uses a series of vivid metaphors to give us two practical reasons to save sexual intimacy exclusively for marriage. In this sermon, we…

It takes so much to be a parent! There are so many priorities competing for our attention – and for our children’s attention, too. So how do we choose? How do we know which priorities should come first? In this sermon, we turn to the introduction of Proverbs for an answer. In the opening verses…

How should we choose our friends? Do we just go with the people who happen to live nearby? Is friendship simply a matter of finding people whose interests are similar to our own? Or is there something more intentional about friendship that we should take into consideration? The book of Proverbs has some very helpful…

This sermon introduces a summer series in the book of Proverbs. Over the next seven weeks, we are going to look at God’s Wisdom for several key areas of our lives including parenting, sexuality, and money. But before we get into the specifics, in this sermon we examine what is at stake. Why is it…

Please note:  We had an audio problem at the beginning of the recording, but it improves when Pastor Don switches microphones. As we come to the end of Daniel, we face an important question: What now? This book has shown us that the Lord is sovereign over all the kingdoms of men and that the…

Where do you turn when a crisis hits? After you’ve called your spouse, or your parents, or 911 – what then? The way we answer that question makes all the difference in how we live in both good times and bad. In Daniel 11, the Lord gives Daniel one last epic vision of the future…

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Well-meaning people sometimes talk about prayer almost as if it is a form of therapy. “You’ll feel better If you pray.” “I pray because it makes me feel peaceful.” “Prayer is God’s way of making us slow down.” Many times those things are true. But in the Bible, prayer is much more than a therapeutic…

Scripture text:  Mark 8:34-38. To view the bulletin, please click on the blue “PDF” button.

If we’re honest, most of us would admit that we hate to wait. And yet waiting – on other people and especially on the Lord – is a central part of the Christian life. In this sermon, we examine five lessons that God’s answer to Daniel’s prayer in Daniel cp 9 teaches us about waiting…