Sermons by Rev. William Kessler

Sermons by Rev. William Kessler

Lot’s Legacy

In this sermon we conclude the record of Lot by looking at his Legacy, and it is a sad one. But, as always, there is much that is instructive for us. Video Audio

Rejoice In The Lord Always

The Apostle Paul in Philippians, that epistle of joy, exhorts the congregation, the church there at Philippi, and by the Holy Spirit we’re exhorted, rejoice in the Lord always. Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice. Let’s start thinking about that exhortation in this way. The Christian life is a life devoted. The Christian life is a life devoted to seek, experience, and express joy. Video Audio

Our Citizenship Is In Heaven

You are the church of Jesus Christ, but more what Paul is saying, you are the commonwealth of heaven, the colony of heaven here. That should frame who we are, our identity. It should frame our circumstances. It should frame how we live our lives. It becomes the very lens, the framework by which we live; by this sojourn, this pilgrimage on our way. We’re born, we live, we die, yet we die in the Lord, absent from the body,…

What Has Been Granted to You

“The power of that resurrection so transforms our suffering that we enter into a deeper fellowship, a deeper communion with Jesus Christ. that our suffering, framed in this way, understood in this way, by faith, received in this way, somehow, by the power of that resurrection, unites us to Jesus further. And we enter into a deeper communion with the living Christ, even through a season, even through the valley of the shadow of death, even through the time that…

To Live is Christ, To Die is Gain

The apostle Paul is hard pressed whether to remain in this life in order to minister to the Phippian church or to depart and be with Christ, considering the possibility of being executed as a christian. This kind of already/not yet tension not only characterizes all creation (Romans 8:18-23), but it also describes our personal lives as well, issuing in a wisdom in seeking God, in assuring us of eternal life in Christ, and in appreciating the gifts and relationships the Lord has…

God’s Comfort

The Lord’s mandate is to comfort his people, “Comfort, O comfort my people”; his means of comfort are spoken words, “speak kindly (to the heart) of Jerusalem and say to her….”; and his message is one of forgiveness and grace, “and say to her that her warfare has ended, that her iniquity is covered, and that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins ( a double portion of blessing in spite of her sins, cf.…

Jesus’ Salutation

As God’s people we know the meaning of suffering, despair, and grief as the Lord uses our afflictions to deeply assure us, to deeply work within us, and to deeply unite us to Christ Jesus Video Audio

Naomi’s Story

As God’s people we know the meaning of suffering, despair, and grief as the Lord uses our afflictions to deeply assure us, to deeply work within us, and to deeply unite us to Christ Jesus Video Audio
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