Rod Benson, Moore College staff devotion, 6 February 2023 Opening of a new building at Moore Theological College, 1 King St, Newtown, Sydney, in 2017. We all face challenges and uncertainties in life. We feel the impact of our past, our family of origin, our environment, the choices we make, and a range of events …
Knowing a just God
A sermon on Psalm 94 A plaque on the wall of Pastor Ralph Williams’ study at Immanuel Gospel Church, New Britain, Connecticut, bears this inscription: “When the Lord looks me over he will not judge me by the degrees I have earned or the awards I have won but by the scars I have incurred.”[1] …
Knowing a gracious God
A sermon on Psalm 78 Psalm 78 is unusual in at least two ways. First, it is the second longest psalm in the Bible (after Psalm 119); second, none of its 72 verses is addressed to God. It reads like a sermon, not like a prayer or a hymn. As for its content, Old Testament …
Knowing a faithful God
A sermon on Psalm 62 In his book, Facing Life and Death, Leslie J. Tizard writes: If you have doubts about the existence of God or misgivings about the kind of God he is, I do not think your need will be met by argument. It will be met only by an act of trust …
Knowing a holy God
A sermon on Psalm 15 In the middle of 1972, when I was four years old, a man on the other side of the world completed a book that would eventually sell over a million copies and be translated into more than a dozen languages. The author was theologian J. I. Packer, and the book …
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