<Sermon I gave at Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary on April 29> Please open your Bibles to II Kings 5. Part of the story was read earlier. I would like to recount it in my own words. The story starts in Israel. A young girl... I am going to call her Nachah... because... well why not? …
Continue reading Three Pastoral Functions Seen In Three Biblical Servants
This is a sermon I did a few years ago. I am guessing it was done in seminary since it sounds like it targets ministers or seminarians... but I am not sure. Here is a story from the Gospels you may remember. A man was walking from Jericho to Jerusalem… a difficult road in a …
Continue reading The Parable of the Busy Minister and the Inconvenient Situation
<Note from 2026. This was a sermon I wrote in the early 2010s, before "building walls" became hyperpolitical. However, that probably makes it even more true. We live in a time to tear down walls.> Ecclesiastes 3:3 states that there is “a time to tear down, and a time to build up.” At first glance …