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Isaiah hears the Lord’s voice go out from his throne: “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” God wants us to hear his voice, too. He wants us to think about that question and to respond in faith. Our sins have made us unworthy, but the good news of the gospel has made all the difference. 

Psalm 139 is one of the greatest devotional works in the entire Old Testament. It's called a devotional work for a reason. It requires us to be devoted to it. There is so much inside of it that we must contemplate deeply. This sermon is devoted to this great Psalm and the God who breathed it into existence that we might know him.

Interestingly and ironically, the word meditation has come to connote specific bodily postures, soft music, and mental blankness. This connotation is the opposite of the word’s denotation, which is not the absence of mental activity, but its presence. This sermon is a meditation on the meditations that the Lord invites us to in this great Psalm. It rises to a meditation on the Lord being our rock and redeemer.

Jesus performs his first miracle at a wedding in Cana. He gives his new disciples a glimpse of who he is by going above and beyond in providing the best of wine. And this is only the beginning. This sermon will explore how Jesus goes above and beyond any sort of limit that we could possibly come up with.

Psalm 72 can easily seem like a relic of Hebrew thought that has little to do with a Christian in today's world. This sermon dusts the great prayer off, showing that it is a psalm that paints a picture of the Messiah and his kingdom. Through that imaging, the Psalm creates the longing for which it calls, becoming a prayer that calls for what the Psalm describes about the Christ and his coming kingdom.

Christmas often moves by so quickly. Not only is that true, but we can even have the possibility of being bored with what it means because we have heard it before. This sermon explores why this happens and, through the teaching of Psalm 98, considers three reasons why Christmas is and must be a song of the heart.

God reveals himself to Moses in one of the greatest sermons ever preached. This helps us to think about how God reveals himself to us: as a baby boy in the manger. When God took on human flesh, he revealed himself to all the world. The incarnate God in the manger is our Savior.

Christmas is upon us. The writer to the Hebrews helps us to marvel at this baby in the manger. We see that God cares deeply for mankind. God became a man to save mankind. The Creator came to earth to save his creation. This is the wonder of all of human history.

This time of year, Christians very rightfully look at Mary and see the first person who receives the news that Jesus is the Christ in faith. She becomes not just the mother of God; she also becomes a model for how faith operates. In this meditation on Mary's song, which we call The Magnificat, we see Mary as a model of how the gospel gives a resilient faith to Christians as we weather our lives, which wait on God and his salvation in Christ.

John the Baptist doesn’t beat around the bush. He gets right to the point and tells the crowd to bear fruits of repentance. This sermon will take a closer look at these fruits of repentance and seek to uncover the joy that is rooted in Christ.