Sermon Topics:

1. How can it be so reliable?
   1. It is the inspired Word of God, not mere opinions or memories
2. How can we keep from being deceived away from it by "false prophets"?
   1. They teach "opinions" and make them equal to Scripture
   2. Their teachings deny the work of Christ (to some extent)
   3. Their teachings deny portions of the Law or the Gospel (or both)
   4. They teach for their own benefit instead of the glory of God

• View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.casperwels.com/sermons/scripture-is-the-sole-inerrant-authority-for-our-faith-and-our-works/
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Sermon Overview: Today is Pentecost, which celebrates the day the descended on the followers of Jesus. However, our scripture passage for today ends with the sentence: "For the Holy Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified." What does that mean?

1. He certainly existed as a person of the Trinity
2. He certainly created faith and gave spiritual gift to Old Testament believers
3. He was certainly present with Jesus Christ
4. He certainly had created faith (the new Man) in the believers' hearts

1. He had not yet brought the gifts that glorified Christ

• View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.casperwels.com/sermons/how-wasnt-the-holy-spirit-present/

Sermon Overview: Jesus's first appearance after his resurrection was to 2 disciples who were walking to Emmaus. While his exact words are not recorded, we know that Jesus explained to those disciples how all of the Scriptures (which we know as the Old Testament today) were about him. In this sermon Pastor Schurman explains the dangers of being distracted by "church things" instead of focusing on hearing and spreading the good news of free salvation in Christ Jesus.

Sermon Topics:

1. How foolishly we detract from what they have spoken
2. How wisely we cling to what they have spoken

• View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.casperwels.com/sermons/the-scriptures-are-all-about-christ/

Sermon Overview: This is the final sermon from the 2023 Lent series "Why Must the Servant of the LORD Suffer?" Pastor Schurman concludes the series by explaining what Jesus' victory over sin, death, and the devil did for us using the last verses from Isaiah's prophecy about the suffering servant.

Sermon Topics:

1. To make us righteous
2. To make us His reward

• View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.casperwels.com/sermons/why-must-the-servant-of-the-lord-suffer-finale/
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Sermon Overview: This is the eighth sermon from the 2023 Lent series "Why Must the Servant of the LORD Suffer?" Pastor Schurman explains that even though it seems like Jesus was murdered at the hands of men, his death and resurrection were in fact God's plan to earn salvation for everyone and to spread the news of that free salvation across the world.

Sermon Topics:

1. His suffering is God's plan for our salvation
2. Salvation prospers in His hand

• View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.casperwels.com/sermons/why-must-the-servant-of-the-lord-suffer-8/
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Sermon Overview: This is the seventh sermon from the 2023 Lent series "Why Must the Servant of the LORD Suffer?" Pastor Schurman explains that Jesus died a painful death intended for criminals, suffering the punishment we deserve for our sins, so that we can have eternal life through faith in him.

Sermon Topics:

1. To die, the innocent in place of the guilty.
2. To receive a grave befitting His glory.

• View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.casperwels.com/sermons/why-must-the-servant-of-the-lord-suffer-7/
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Sermon Overview: When Jesus entered Jerusalem a few days before he would be crucified, the crowd laid down their cloaks and palm branches to welcome him and glorify him as their king. However, many of them mistakenly thought he would be their Earthly king. Pastor Schurman helps us learn, using that crowd as an example, the ways in which we can properly glorify Jesus.

Sermon Topics:

1. Believe Him
2. Confess Him
3. Pray to Him
4. Submit to His will
5. Serve Him with what He has given to us

• View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.casperwels.com/sermons/how-do-we-glorify-christ-as-the-king-of-kings/

Sermon Overview: This is the sixth sermon from the 2023 Lent series "Why Must the Servant of the LORD Suffer?" Pastor Schurman explains that Jesus was arrested and brought to court through oppression, and his crucifixion was a result of injustice in the Sanhedrin and the Roman government. However, God used this to put our sins -- including our own oppression, injustice, and rebellion -- on Christ so that we are saved.

Sermon Topics:

1. Because of oppression of justice
2. Because of our rebellion

• View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.casperwels.com/sermons/why-must-the-servant-of-the-lord-suffer-6/
• Watch this sermon directly on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHpm5jD1c3k

• View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.casperwels.com/sermons/how-does-the-lord-give-life-to-what-has-been-dead-a-long-time/

Sermon Overview: This is the fifth sermon from the 2023 Lent series "Why Must the Servant of the LORD Suffer?" Pastor Schurman explains that we all continually wander off the path God intended for us, but Jesus willingly sacrificed himself to atone for our sins and make us His children.

Sermon Topics:

1. Because we are wandering sheep
2. So He became the atoning lamb

• View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.casperwels.com/sermons/why-must-the-servant-of-the-lord-suffer-5/
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