Description: Theologians talk about two types of repentance: attrition and contrition. Attrition is false repentance and usually is only a change in outward actions with no change in heart. While contrition is a change in outward actions driven from a change in the heart. Contrition is heart-felt sorrow over sin. In this sermon we will look at examples of both attrition and contrition from the way that Jonah reacted to God’s word compared to the reaction of the Ninevites.
Description: The most important city in the world is Jerusalem. Its history past, present, and future is the history of mankind. Jesus was presented there as a child, and 30 years later concluded His ministry outside the walls on a cruel cross. It’s a rare day that the evening news does not mention Jerusalem.
Description: If the only section of Jonah we had was section three, it would be an entirely different book. But God has seen fit to preserve for us chapters 1, 2, and 4 and thereby display for us His amazing grace and mercy and His ability to use even weak and failing men to accomplish great things for His glory. God is the God of the Crushed. God uses the Crushed to Accomplish Great Things
Description: In this sermon we take a step back from the text and view some of the central tenets of the narrative. We look at 3 great things that it teaches us:
Description: Mothers put in so many hours for so many years that they must at times wonder when they will get their wages. Today we’ll look at the mother of Moses and perhaps realize that she indeed got a great return on her 3 year investment which prepared her child to become a great leader.
Description: Millions of people carry around a pain that is hidden inside. It’s the pain of a guilty conscience. Some trespass, recent or long ago, just won’t go away and refuses to heal. Forgiveness is one of the most wonderful aspects of Christianity. This lesson from the Book of Genesis is a clear picture of the healing of a terrible divide between two brothers.
Description: Pain and punishment go together. We try to avoid both. The Apostle Paul experienced more than his share of both. Punishment is deserved in most cases — but the Bible tells of the pain that Jesus endured, though innocent, for the sin of you and me.
Description: The second section of the book of Jonah (chapters 3-4) begins in much the same fashion as the first section. In the first 2 verses we glean three important things about the way God extends His grace toward sinners. We see how God extended His grace toward Jonah and how He continues to extend His grace toward sinners today.
Description: Jonah cries out to God in desperation in the belly of the fish that God has sent to swallow him. Jonah’s prayer reveals that he did indeed know the one true God, but it also reveals that his heart was unrepentant.
Description: As Christians, the reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from death is absolutely essential to our salvation — our forgiveness of sin. His resurrection shows the validation of God the Father that indeed, “It is finished” — God’s redemptive plan complete.
Description: Easter Sunday, the resurrection of Christ, solves the problem of tension that existed among the Old Testaments prophets concerning the coming of the Messiah. The prophets prophesied that the coming Messiah would be a suffering servant who would be scourged, smitten, beaten, and pierced and yet he would also be a conquering king. How could these two apparent contradictions in description possibly be? The answer is found in Easter.
Description: Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, and there is perhaps no greater day to focus on Christ’s kingly office. God gave Abraham a royal grant and prophecy that He would make a people for Himself and establish a Kingdom and righteous King for His people. This covenantal promise was fulfilled in the life of David and found its ultimate fulfillment in the person and work of Christ.
Description: There are some things that humans do well. God, on the other hand, does all things perfectly. Sanctification leading to glorification is one of the most exciting studies in the Bible. Let’s find out together what Christians can expect both today and in the future.
Description: Marvel of marvels! Christ Jesus loves you and I. The Bible teaches that He, in His great love for sinners, draws us with velvet ‘chains of love’ into an eternal saving relationship with our God and Heavenly Father.
Description: God does not need your money, and there is no life in legalism. If we cannot be spontaneous and give from a cheerful heart, then God would be pleased if we give nothing at all.
Description: Jonah gives the pagan sailors a false impression of God and continues in his flight from God — even seeking his own death before repenting and obeying God’s command to go to his enemies. But God pursues Jonah with a storm. We find out in this passage that God is also pursuing the pagan sailors, and Jonah’s rebellion is what God uses to display His grace and mercy to them.
Description: Jonah is on the run and running hard away from God. God calls him to Nineveh, and he heads in the opposite direction towards Tarshish. God pursues Jonah with a violent storm to wake Jonah from His sinful slumber. The storm shows us two things about God’s pursuit of man. The first is that it is great and the second is that it is gracious.
Jonah is on a ship with pagans representing many nations all serving the idols of their land. Jonah represents one type of person who flees in the path of the Pharisee while the pagan sailors represent another type of person who flees in the path of the Prodigal. In this story we see God pursuing both Pharisees and Prodigals, which is good news for us.
Description: God, the Master Builder, is a perfectionist. He entrusted man with the care of a garden of abundance. God’s one request gave man a chance to submit himself to his loving Creator, but, in fact, the future of all humanity took a terrible turn.
Description: Join us as we turn the back the clock to 2000 to listen to a Scandia Bible Church “Classic.” In this Classic Sermon Pastor James Allen embarks upon a series in Soteriology which is the study of why salvation is necessary and how it is accomplished. In this introduction sermon to the series he talks about the importance of doctrine.
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