Sermon for Sunday Evening, January 29th, 2023 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Introduction The title for this evening’s sermon is “Herod Contra Mundum.” This is, as we’ve seen, the third Herod, also known as Herod Agrippa. “Contra Mundum” is a common Latin phrase literally meaning “against the world.” The connotation is …
Sermon for Sunday, January 29th, 2023 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Hag 2:1-9 ESV] 1 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet: 2 “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor …
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Sermon for Sunday Evening, January 22nd, 2023 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Scripture reading: [Act 12:6-17 ESV] 6 Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison. 7 And …
Sermon for Sunday, January 22nd, 2023 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Jos 24:1-13 ESV] 1 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God. 2 And Joshua said to all …
Sermon for Sunday Evening, January 15th, 2023 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Scripture reading: [Act 12:1-5 ESV] 1 About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. 2 He killed James the brother of John with the sword, 3 and when he saw that it …
Sermon for Sunday, January 15th, 2023 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Jos 23:1-16 ESV] 1 A long time afterward, when the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years, 2 Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and …
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Sermon for Sunday Evening, January 8th, 2023 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Scripture reading: [Act 11:19-30 ESV] 19 Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews. 20 But there were …
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Sermon for Sunday, January 8th, 2023 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Pro 18:13-17 ESV] 13 If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame. 14 A man’s spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear? 15 An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, …
Sermon on Joshua 22:10-34 – “Peace Between East and West” Read More »
Sermon for Sunday Evening, January 1st, 2023 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Scripture reading: [Act 11:1-18 ESV] 1 Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, …
Sermon for Sunday, January 1st, 2023 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Jos 22:1-9 ESV] 1 At that time Joshua summoned the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 2 and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you and …
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Sermon for Sunday, December 25th, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament Reading: [Deu 18:15-22 ESV] 15 “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers–it is to him you shall listen– 16 just as you desired of the LORD your …
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Sermon for Saturday, December 24th, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Scripture Reading: [Act 1:1-11 ESV] 1 In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, 2 until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy …
Sermon for Sunday, December 18th, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Jos 21:41-45 ESV] 41 The cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the people of Israel were in all forty-eight cities with their pasturelands. 42 These cities each had its pasturelands around it. So …
Sermon for Sunday, December 11th, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Jos 20:1-9 ESV] 1 Then the LORD said to Joshua, 2 “Say to the people of Israel, ‘Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses, 3 that the manslayer who strikes any person …
Sermon for Sunday, December 4th, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Num 33:50-56 ESV] 50 And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 51 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you pass over the Jordan …
Sermon on Joshua 13:13, 15:63, 16:10, 17:12-13 – “Driving Problems” Read More »
Sermon for Sunday Evening, Nov 27th, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Scripture reading: [Act 10:1-48 ESV] 1 At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, 2 a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the …
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Sermon for Sunday, November 27th, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Gen 15:12-21 ESV] 12 As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him. 13 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your …
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Sermon for Sunday, November 20th, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Jos 10:29-43 ESV] 29 Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah. 30 And the LORD gave it also and its king into the hand of Israel. And he …
Sermon for Sunday, November 13th, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Deu 11:18-25 ESV] 18 “You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between …
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Sermon for Sunday, November 6th, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Deu 20:10-18 ESV] 10 “When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. 11 And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people …
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Sermon for Sunday, October 30th, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Jos 8:30-35 ESV] 30 At that time Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal, 31 just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the people of Israel, as it …
Sermon for Sunday Evening, Oct 23rd, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Scripture reading: [Act 9:23-43 ESV] 23 When many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him, 24 but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night in order to kill him, 25 but …
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Sermon for Sunday, October 23rd, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Gen 50:15-20 ESV] 15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.” 16 So …
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Sermon Text: [1Jo 1:3-7 ESV] 3 that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. …
Sermon for Sunday, October 2nd, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Jos 7:1-9 ESV] 1 But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the …
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