It is clear that followers of Jesus are called into battle – a battle not waged with ‘fleshly weapons’ but with weapons of spiritual power. A praying community is central to this fight. As we pray together sin is overcome; the weak are raised up; confession leads to freedom; the wanderers are sought out. In these ways the followers of Jesus become a city set on a hill and those outside the faith are made welcome.
We focus on the world we can see, hear, and touch; and are often warned, with good reason, against excessive attention to virtual experience and worldly fantasies. However, flights of imagination and the things of the material world are not the totality of existence; indeed neither is of first importance. By faith we grasp truth that is not tangible, apprehend reality we can’t measure, take hold of experience that has not yet occurred. Hebrews 11:1 states succinctly: Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. There are two categories in view here: a) history that is certain but not yet accomplished (what is hoped for) and b) profound realities everywhere around us that we cannot measure with our senses (things not seen). In this sermon series we will begin a new year, not with resolutions about diets, budgets and exercise. Rather, we aim to grow in grace - giving attention to realities that beckon us from the future and form us in the present while remaining unseen.
Enter multiple search parameters to narrow the list to sermons matching all of them. For example, choose
Book: Psalms
Speaker: Stedman, Ray
to see sermons by Ray Stedman that also have a specific reference in the Psalms.
Click on the Clear Filters button to see the whole list again. If you are getting no results, make sure that you don’t have a filter parameter that you did not intend.
Click on a column title to sort the list by that column. Click a second time to reverse the sort order. By default the list is ordered from newest to oldest (reverse chronological).
If a selection list (drop down menu of Book/Chapter/Speaker/Sermon Series) extends below the sermon list and overlaps these tips it will not function correctly: Clear Filters to reset the list so you can make your selection. This is a bug in the software that we hope can be fixed in the future.
The Book filter will not find every sermon that touches on a particular book
it cannot find sermons where the book name does not appear in the Scripture References column, e.g. filtering on Luke does not find a sermon with reference Matthew – Revelation.
Scripture References in the catalog are not complete for all sermons for various reasons
If you are exploring the library by Date, note that the date selector has unfortunate limitations:
You must select both specific from and to dates for the filter to work. Just typing in a year in one field, for example, will not narrow the list to that year.
In the calendar browser that pops up, you can click on the month/year at the top to move by larger periods of time. For example, if January, 2019 is displayed and you click on it you can choose months in 2019, click again and you can navigate through years.
Typed in dates must be in the format shown in the sermon list: 20 Jan 2019. Other formats such as 1/20/19 do not work.
Typed in dates will sometimes be misinterpreted and replaced: try editing the replacement text into your desired date rather than clearing the field and starting over.
The Search field only searches the catalog list of sermons displayed on this page. Unfortunately we do not have the capability to search the text of sermons at this time.
