Living Hope Evangelical Free Church Sermons (Sioux Falls, SD)

“Making Princes out of Paupers”

James 2: 1-7

Pastor Dan Montgomery

March 2, 2025

Partiality makes no sense for people in Jesus’s kingdom.

1)     Jesus is the Lord of Glory (2:1)

2)    There is always a pull to favor worldly glory (2:2-4)

3)     The glory of our Lord’s kingdom tends to lookupside down (2:5-7)

"Testing Your Fruit"

James 1: 19-27

Pastor Dan Montgomery

February 23, 2025

We listen to God's word so it can be planted in us and make us into fruit bearing trees. Nothing thwarts this process more than a foolishly prideful self-assessment.

1) How to become a fruit bearing tree (1:21, 25)

2) How to assess your righteous thoughts. (1:19-21)

3) How to assess your Bible study. (1: 22-25)

4) How to assess your religious devotion (1: 26-27)

"Divine Affection: The Lord and His People"

Song of Solomon 2: 2-3

John Brueckner

February 16, 2025

1) What Christ thinks of the believer (2:2)

2) What the believer thinks of Christ (2:3)

"Gumption and the Goodness of God”

James 1:12-18

Pastor Dan Montgomery

February 9, 2025

Following Jesus will require gumption. If we know and relyon the goodness of God, we will make it.

1)     Your life requires an adequate supply of gumption (12)

2)     Your desires require an adequate supply of suspicion (13-15)

3)     WE all need an adequate supply of truth about God (16-18)

"Spiritual Spatial Awareness"

James 1: 5-11

Pastor Dan Montgomery

February 2, 2025

To live well as God's People, we need God's wisdom. This wisdom gives us a "spiritual spatial awareness" that moves us to make some surprising judgements about ourselves and our world.

1) We will misunderstand trials if we don't have God's wisdom (1:2-4)

2) We seek wisdom by asking God for it (1:5-8)

3) Let's perceive lowliness and riches according to God's wisdom. (1:9-11)

What's Better than a Life of Ease?

James 1: 1-4

Pastor Dan Montgomery

January 26, 2025

God's restored people are still a scattered people who face unpleasant trials. Because we know the purpose of these trials, we can embrace them with joy.

1) You are not exempt from unpleasant trials.

2) You should rejoice in your unpleasant trials.

3) You can know the purpose of your unpleasant trials.

4) You should pursue the purpose of your unpleasant trials.

"In His Hands"

Psalm 104:24-35

Pastor Dan Montgomery

January 19, 2025

Creation exists to be a holy temple, putting God's mighty

* Ps104:24-26 -> "Without Him was not any thing made

(John 1:3)

*Ps 104:27-30 ->"He Himself gives to all mankind

(Acts 17:25)

*Ps 104:31-34 ->"Tell of His deeds in songs of

(Psalm 107:22)

*Ps 104:35 -> Something's Gotta Give

"A Wealth of Generosity"

Psalm 104: 14-23

Pastor Dan Montgomery

January 12, 2025

People who can see the abundance of God are filled with humble delight and generosity.

1) God's Lavish Feast (14-18)

2) God's Rhythmic Feast (19-23)

3) God's Lavish People (14-15)

"God Over the Chaos"

Psalm 104:1-13

January 5, 2025

Celebrate the goodness of our Creator by pondering His creation.

Bless the Lord for...

1)... His splendor and majesty

2)... His control over chaos

3)... His life=-giving boundaries.

"Hail Incarnate Deity"

December 29th, 2024

Pastor Dan Montgomery

December 29, 2024

The baby whose birth we celebrate at Christmas comes from eternal glory and lives to show us that glory. Take it in.

1. Who?

2. What?

3. Where?

4. Why?