Sermons and Biblical Studies

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight … for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule. Speculations I … Continue reading “SCIENCE
AND FAITH”

In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature … Continue reading “SCIENCE
AND CHRISTIANITY”

Now it is more respectable among philosophers than it has been for a generation to talk about the possibility of God’s existence. Time Magazine

The earth is flat, and anyone who disputes this claim is an atheist who deserves to be punished. Muslim religious edict, 1993 Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz Supreme religious authority, Saudi Arabia Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness. Gustave Le Bon Ours is a world of nuclear giants … Continue reading “SCIENCE”

Schleiermacher set himself in sharp opposition to the intellectualism and moralism of the Age of Reason. He accused it of misunderstanding and debasing religion, of confusing it with and transforming it into metaphysics and morality. Thereby the Enlightenment had obscured the unique independent essence of religion. Rudolf Otto

And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age. Matthew 28:20b __________ Sayings through the Centuries His money owns him rather than he owns it. Saint Cyprian, 258 A.D. For to sin, indeed is human: but to persevere in sin, is not human: but altogether satanic. Saint Joannes Chrysostomus, 407 A.D. … Continue reading “JESUS’
PRESENCE”

But when you pray, go to your room, close the door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what you do in private, will reward you. When you pray, do not use a lot a meaningless words, as the pagans do, who think that their gods will hear them … Continue reading “HOW
TO PRAY”

When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites! They love to stand up and pray in the houses of worship and on the street corners, so that everyone will see them. I assure you, they have already been paid in full. Matthew 6:5 gnb

Whoever drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring which will provide him with life-giving water and give him eternal life. John 4:13–14 gnb

Whoever is thirsty should come to me and drink. As the scripture says, “Whoever believes in me, streams of life-giving water will pour out from his heart.” John 7:37–38 gnb