Three years ago, Dr. Glenn Pemberton, a professor of Old Testament at Abilene Christian was one of the featured presenters at Austin Grad’s annual Sermon Seminar. Pemberton spoke on preaching from the psalms. If you don’t know Glenn,

We’ve been thinking about worship for the last couple of weeks—that our worship of Almighty God should be done in Spirit and Truth, with reverence and awe for who God is. We worship THE awesome God and there is no one else. God alone is awesome.

“Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly” (Exodus 19:18). In my ten years in California,

Scripture Acts 2:42-47  

“For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female,

“Why don’t you all f-fade away? (talkin’ ’bout my generation) Don’t try to dig what we all s-s-s-say (talkin’ ’bout my generation) I’m not trying to cause a big s-s-s-sensation (talkin’ ’bout my generation) I’m just talkin’ ’bout my g-g-g-generation (t...

“Hey, don’t you know it’s a waste of your day Caught up in endless solutions That have no meaning Just another hunch, based upon jumping conclusions Backed up against a wall of confusion Caught up in endless solutions Living a life of illusion” —Joe Wa...

Text is Colossians 1:24-2:5

In previous sermons, we’ve talked about how some things in the Bible come with a certain tension. Grace has tension to it. The church has always had an uneasy relationship with grace, even the church of the New Testament.

Sermon recording from July 30, 2017 PM. Text is Psalm 103.