RoboPreacher

it's deadly & dull The proverbs of Solomon , son of David, king of Israel: Wisdom was the Israelite’s school of life , whereby they taught themselves, one another, and their children how to live … And the first lesson of wisdom is the most obvious , but it’s also the hardest to learn… We’re going to spend July in the book of Proverbs . And Proverbs is a little like the “encyclopedia,” or these days, “wikipedia.” Proverbs is a collection of the accumulated wisdom of what it meant to live as God’s Chosen People… But there’s an important distinction ; while Proverbs is an anthology like the encyclopedia or wikipedia, that’s where the commonalities end . …We live in the ‘information age.’ And that’s what encyclopedias and wikipedia provide, information .   You want to know what the population of Burlington was in 1850? Look it up on wikipedia (4,082)! You want to learn the history of encyclopedias? Just dust off the “E” edition of your en...

am i good for nothing A sermon on Peter & Cornelius' visions This encounter between Peter and Cornelius is so important that it’s recounted three different times in Acts! And it is important. It’s the story of how the Christian church began.   And for us this story holds a special importance, it’s the story of how our inclusion in the church began… The first real question the church wrestled with, wasn’t whether jewish people could be saved. That was a given. Of course jewish people would be saved, they’re God’s chosen!   No. The real question was, could folks like us, “ gentiles by birth, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenant of promise, having no hope and without God;” whether we could be saved. (Eph. 2:11-12) And this episode between Cornelius and Peter answers that question; “ All receive forgiveness of sins through Jesus ’ name!” (Acts 10:43) In Jesus, a new age, post partiality, has dawned! Now...