Sermons by Rev. Lloyd Harter
Success!! What Is It?
What makes a church successful? Is it numbers? Is it cultivation? Is it influence? To what example should we look for what makes a church successful? We continue our study of the book of Isaiah today in Chapter 62.
Good Gracious Glory
After giving very severe judgement to Israel’s wayward worshipping of false gods, God inspires Isaiah to show the future glory waiting for Israel and the church of believers in the coming ages. When would God restore glory to the church? What form would that glory take? What is the best fulfillment of that glory? We continue our study of the book of Isaiah today in chapter 60.
Good with God? Good with Others.
Isaiah and Jesus agree; your relationship with God is intricately bound together with the people around you. Good relationship with God? You’ll want to treat the people in your life well. Bad relationship with God? You will care less how you treat the people around you? Why is this connection so important today? We continue our study of the book of Isaiah today in Chapter 59.
The Soldiers’ Easter
Have you ever considered the Easter account from the standpoint of the soldiers guarding the tomb? What impact would seeing the Easter events have had on the soldiers? If the soldiers were skeptics at first, were they skeptics at the end? We consider the Easter account from Matthew 28:1-10.
Why Stress? Why Relax?
Why is tension the enemy of progress in your relationship with God? What tension did the Jewish leaders have in their relationship with God at Jesus’ time? What tension do we have with God in our time? How can we relax and let the tension disappear? We continue our study of the book of Isaiah today with chapter 58
Free Food
Why is the banquet theme in the Bible used by so many Bible writers? What is God communicating to us in comparing his grace to free food? What are people eating/taking in every day instead of God’s free food of forgiveness? We continue our study of the book of Isaiah today in Chapter 55.
Glory on the Offensive
Did God promise the Savior way back in Genesis out of love for his own glory? Did Jesus ever talk about his saving work being for God’s glory? Is there any difference between God’s glory and God’s love? We consider these questions as we continue our study of Isaiah in Chapter 52.
What’s In Your Cup?
What does it mean to drink the cup from the Lord? Is this cup filled with blessing, judgement, or both? What does Jesus mean when he talks in the same way right before he died? We continue our study of the book of Isaiah today in chapter 51.
A Torch Doesn’t Compare
Why would someone prefer a torch to the light of the sun? How are people choosing a torch for their own light instead of Jesus the Sun of our lives? We continue our study of the book of Isaiah today in Chapter 50.
Unshakable Kingdom? Unshakable Kingdom.
Why did God give such an outpouring of predictive prophecy in the last millennia before Jesus would be born? What were people struggling to believe in that time’s political instability? What do we struggle to believe in today’s political instability? We continue our study of the book of Isaiah today in chapter 47.