Hoover Church of Christ Sermons

Hoover Church of Christ Sermons

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  • Gratitude and Grace
    The nine healed lepers probably had several reasons to keep them from turning around and thanking Jesus. They needed to see the priest, who would officially pronounce them clean and admit them back into the community. And they had families they hadn’t seen in months, maybe years. Who would blame them for wanting to hug their wives and kids as soon as possible?
    But Luke focuses our attention on the one who thought to turn back. Consistent with his emphasis throughout his gospel, Luke shows us another “Good Samaritan,” another outsider who had more spiritual sensitivity than the religious insiders.
    Like the ungrateful nine, most of us are religious insiders as well. We grew up in Christian homes, or if not, we’ve been in Christ for awhile. Maybe even long enough for it to lose its newness. One of the disadvantages of longevity in Christ is that we can get used to it. We lose the wonder, the amazement, the gratitude for what God has done for us in Christ.
    We had something much worse than leprosy, and Jesus cleaned us. As we look ahead to Thanksgiving week, this Sunday morning we’ll reflect on what the grateful Samaritan teaches us about how to respond to God’s goodness toward us.
    32 min
  • Is Your Lamp Burning?

    In some fundamentalist-type religious groups, you hear about the second coming all the time, usually pointing to something going on in the world today as a sure sign that “Jesus is coming soon!” so you’d better “Repent or perish!” But in others (probably most), you hear little, maybe because talk of judgment and Jesus’ second coming is usually associated with the kind of church mentioned above, and most of us don’t want to be connected to that.

    But, truth be told, Jesus spent quite a bit of time talking about his next coming, and our text for Sunday comes in the middle of a long section filled with Jesus’ warnings about the end of time. In our passage Jesus uses a wedding illustration to make two points: (1) His coming will be sudden, so (2) We must be prepared.

    Most of us are quite overwhelmed with just trying to make it to the weekend, so we have little time or energy to think much beyond that. But we must. At the risk of sounding cliché, much of the stuff we spend our time on won’t matter a hundred years from now. But our relationship with Jesus and how it affected our lives will matter a lot. In fact, it’ll be all that matters.

    29 min

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Our church family here is a loving, close-knit group of Christians trying our best to live for Christ. We’re not perfect, of course, but we’re striving each day to let God’s Word be our guide for everything we do—in everyday life, at work, at school, at church. . . everywhere. Many of us come from different backgrounds, and we work in various fields, but we share a common love for Jesus Christ and His church and look for opportunities to share that love with others.