Stopping to Think

 Here is a link to the sermon I preached at our church last week, The Lord Revealed . The sermon text was John 21:1-14. Here is a follow up blog post to that sermon, from earlier this week: A Missed Point

The Backdrop Yesterday I was preaching from John 21:1-14. I was going without notes, which used to be my typical modus operandi, but is something I hadn't attempted in a long time. For the most part I felt pretty good about how it went-until I afterward remembered that I had teased a later point in the sermon (twice!) and then neglected to make that point. Maybe there is more wisdom to taking a full manuscript to the pulpit than I accounted for. In any case, in case you haven't followed the above link and listened to the whole sermon, the thrust of the sermon was this: In the first half of John 21 , we are meant to see Jesus revealing himself to the disciples. I argued that Jesus was revealed in at least three ways, namely:     1) Jesus has perfect knowledge     2) Jesus is the source of true provision     3) Jesus is Lord The Missed Point The case of negligence, or at least of failure to follow through, took place under point two. It might be an exagge...

Here is the link to last Sunday's sermon from Remsen Bible Fellowship.   https://remsenbible.blogspot.com/2020/07/what-is-this-book-for.html Title: What's This Book For? Text: John 20:30-31

Here is the link to last Sunday's sermon from our church, Remsen Bible Fellowship: The Gift of Peace