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Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit
What does “obedience of faith” (Romans 1:5) mean?
Reflection on Psalm 106 (Week 31, 2026)
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When I prepared my sermon on 1 John 5, I wrote out an overview of John’s argument in the first 4 chapters as a backdrop to his conclusions in chapter 5. In the end I had to take it out because the sermon was too long. However, the call to pray would make better sense …
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I preached this sermon on Sunday. The sermon took a turn I did not expect, focusing on prayer both for our own spiritual health as well as for our brothers and sisters but it made a lot of sense. While John had emphasised that righteousness and love must be the hallmark of our Christian life …
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I preached on Psalm 16 on Sunday. Here is my text. The psalm we are looking at this morning is Psalm 16. Let me read it to you. Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good …
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I preached this sermon in church yesterday and it was well received. Perhaps it may be a blessing to others as well. Good morning. Continuing our series on wisdom from Proverbs, the topic given for today’s sermon is “Fear of the Lord vs. Fear of Man”, with reference to Proverbs 29:25, which says “Fear of …
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Ephesians 5:15-21 I was tasked to preach on Sunday on the above passage. It is not exactly the reason why the past few weeks the devotions I wrote for Time Alone with God have been on Ephesians 4 and 5 but since we have been looking at Ephesians 4 and 5, I thought I’d share …
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I preached in church today and this is the text of my sermon. Perhaps it will help clarify some of your thoughts about worship. Last week we looked at Psalm 40 and Elder Peter pointed out to us that the proper action on our part is to wait for the Lord; God does the rest. …
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I was tasked to preach on the shepherds as a part of an ongoing series on the characters of Christmas. This is my sermon, verbatim. Good morning. The topic given to me is actually this long “Shepherds: As believers we must understand that the gospel reaches all people” and I decided to shorten it to …
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(I was to preach on Galatians 2 last week and thought it would be a good idea to spend my quiet time on the text and that was why the devotion for Week 43 was on Galatians 1 and 2. Here is the text of my sermon. It is about 6 pages long, so be …
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