If you wish to use this index, look for the scripture; following the scripture you will find the posting date. (Remember, it is the posting date, not the date the sermon was preached.) You may then go to the month and year to find the sermon title. Click on the title and the sermon should open. The format didn't transfer perfectly but I think it's still usable.
Genesis 1:1 7/13 The Grand Assumption Revisited
2:15 8/13 Our Work
2:18 9/13 Lonely People
3:15 6/15 A Problem Worthy of God
22:1-19 10/12 The Test
Exodus 20:3 9/15 The Right God
Joshua 14:6-14 1/12 Sailing Through the Doldrums
I Kings 19 8/13 Brightening the Dark Night
2 Kings 6:1-7 5/12 Beware of Flying Axe Heads
Psalm 8 11/11 Identity Theft
63 7/12 Desert Thoughts
106:1 11/14 The “Who” of Thanksgiving
121 11/10 Help for Today
139 8/16 The Committed One
139:23-24 1/16 Unchained
139 8/16 The Committed One
139:23-24 1/16 Unchained
Proverbs
Several verses 8/15 Friendship Dynamics
31:10-31 5/13 Standing Out from the Crowd
Several verses 8/15 Friendship Dynamics
31:10-31 5/13 Standing Out from the Crowd
Eccl 4:9f 5/15 A Gift You Give Yourself
Isaiah 40:26-31 6/15 Look Skyward
Isaiah 40:26-31 6/15 Look Skyward
Daniel 3 5/15 Remembering Who You Are
Matthew
1:18-23 12/11 The Advent Look
1:18-24 12/14 Joseph: Good Man, Bad Reputation
4:1-11 7/16 Tempted
4:1-11 7/16 Tempted
5:5 11/13 Taming the Beast for Good
5:9 7/12 Elect Some Peacemakers--Quick
5:43-45 5/13 Blessings Add Up
6:12 10/11 A Prayer for People Who Sin
6:12 11/15 The Lord's Prayer: A Sinner's Prayer
6:5-13 10/15 The Lord's Prayer: A Revolutionary Prayer
6:9 10/15 The Lord's Prayer: A Family Prayer
6:9 10/15 The Lord's Prayer: A Reverent Prayer
6:10 10/15 The Lord's Prayer: A Revealing Prayer
6:11-12 11/15 The Lord's Prayer: A Table Prayer
6:13 11/15 The Lord's Prayer: A Realist's Prayer
6:13 (KJV) 11/15 The Lord's Prayer: A Thoughtful Prayer
6:12 11/15 The Lord's Prayer: A Sinner's Prayer
6:5-13 10/15 The Lord's Prayer: A Revolutionary Prayer
6:9 10/15 The Lord's Prayer: A Family Prayer
6:9 10/15 The Lord's Prayer: A Reverent Prayer
6:10 10/15 The Lord's Prayer: A Revealing Prayer
6:11-12 11/15 The Lord's Prayer: A Table Prayer
6:13 11/15 The Lord's Prayer: A Realist's Prayer
6:13 (KJV) 11/15 The Lord's Prayer: A Thoughtful Prayer
6:25-34 10/11 Good News for the Anxious
6:25-34 8/14 Bivocational (A Labor Day sermon)
7:1-6 1/12 Judging the Judged
7:1-5 8/16 Beams and Specks
7:7-11 3/16 The Storyteller: Parable of the Giving Father
7:24-27 10/16 Location, Location, Location
9:9-13 5/16 Another Scandal
9:9-13 5/16 Another Scandal
9:35-38 9/11 Workers Needed
11:28-30 9/12 The Yolk
13:45-46 6/12 Looking for Treasure?
16:13-16 3/12 Who is Jesus? The Messiah
18:21-22 5/15 Memory Problems
20:13-16 2/12 Who is Jesus? Answers that Tempt You to Say, “You’re Kidding.”
22:18-22 1/28/11 Choosing to Believe or Not
20:28 4/12 Who is Jesus? The Man for Others
25:14-30 6/16 The Storyteller: Talent On Loan
25:14-30 6/16 The Storyteller: Talent On Loan
28:16-20 7/12 Who Are We? We Are Disciples?
28:20b 1/16 Challenges for a New Year
28:20b 1/16 Challenges for a New Year
Mark
1:14-15 11/26/11 Thanks for the Good News
2:17 8/12 Living Like Jesus in An Angry Time
4:35-41 8/41 Storms
8:27-30 1/16 Disputed Question
10:13-16 7/15 Lessons for Young Disciples
10:42-45 9/12 Who Are We? We Are Servants
8:27-30 1/16 Disputed Question
10:13-16 7/15 Lessons for Young Disciples
10:42-45 9/12 Who Are We? We Are Servants
Luke 1:5-23 12/12 Unexpected
1:26-38 12/11 Christmas Story
1:26-38 12/12 Song of Christmas: A World Turned Upside Down
1:26-28 5/12 Mother Mary (A Mother’s Day sermon)
2:1f 12/14 Reading the Christmas Story Again--Slowly
2:1-7 12/12 No Vacancy
2:8-20 12/12 The Shepherds find The Shepherd
2:16-20 1/11 The Day After Christmas
2:52 8/16 Intentional Parenting
2:52 8/16 Intentional Parenting
3-21-22 1/13 Endorsements
4:14-30 1/13 You Can’t Go Home Again
5:17-26 1/13 Through the Roof
7:11-17 2/13 A Funeral Canceled
7:36-50 2/13 The Uninvited
9:28-36 8/15 Mountaintop Experience
9:49-50 2/16 How Large Is Your Family?
10:1-20 9/15 Job Satisfaction
9:28-36 8/15 Mountaintop Experience
9:49-50 2/16 How Large Is Your Family?
10:1-20 9/15 Job Satisfaction
10:25-37 2/13 Traveling Mercies
10:38-42 3/13 Priorities
15:11-32 12/12 Wasteful Sons
15;11-32 7/16 The Prodigal's Parents
15;11-32 7/16 The Prodigal's Parents
16:19-31 3/13 Unbelievable Unbelief
18:9-14 2/16 The Storyteller: Shock Value
18:9-14 2/16 The Storyteller: Shock Value
19:1-10 3/13 The Kind of Man He Was
19:28-44 3/13 A Ride Into Town
20:25 7/14 July 6
23:32-34 10/11 Shocking Words from a Cross
24:1-12 3/13 It’s Easter—Are You Listening?
24:12 4/13 Peter and Easter
24:13-35 4/13 A Walk with a Stranger—Who Wasn’t
24:36-49 4/13 I’m Back
24:50-53 4/13 Worshiping and Waiting
John 1:1-8 12/10 Christmas in One Word
1:6f 1/16 A Man Sent from John
1:6f 1/16 A Man Sent from John
1:10-13 2/14 Believe
1:40-42 8/12 Escape Your Comfort Zones
2:13-17 11/11 Shaken for Good
2:23-3:14 10/14 Getting to Belief
3:1-15 10/12 About Being ‘Born Again’
3:1-15 7/13 The Snake and the Cross
3:16-21 1/11 The Verse
4:1-41 9/13 Good News for a New World
4:39-42 3/12 Who is Jesus? Savior of the World
4:43-54 7/13 A Desperate Father
5:1-16 7/15 Do You Want to be Well?
5:1-16 7/15 Do You Want to be Well?
6:1-15 6/15 Picnic by the Lake
6:38 12/15 Home of Christmas
6:66-71 10/16 Standing Firm
6:38 12/15 Home of Christmas
6:66-71 10/16 Standing Firm
7:37-38 11/16/10 Flood of Blessing
8:12 9/16 Light for a Dark World
8:12 9/16 Light for a Dark World
10:10 8/12 Why Become A Christian?
12:20-26 8/15 Lifted Up
13:1-17 3/16 The Order of the Towel and Basin
12:20-26 8/15 Lifted Up
13:1-17 3/16 The Order of the Towel and Basin
13:33-35 2/12 Public Displays of Affection
14:1-6 7/15 It Matters That You Are a Christian
14:1-6 7/15 It Matters That You Are a Christian
14:27 3/14 Peace for Troubled Hearts
16;16-33 10/16 Joy to Sorrow
16;16-33 10/16 Joy to Sorrow
17 10/14 Because Jesus Prayed
17:20-21 9/11 One Nation
20:1-9 4/24/11 An Easter Way of Seeing
20:1-9 4/17 One Tomb: Barely Used
20:1-9 4/17 One Tomb: Barely Used
20:24-29 3/12 Who Is Jesus? Incarnate Jesus (See I Jn. 4:1-3)
20:30-31 4/16 Trusting the New Testament
21:1-19 3/16 Hope in the Wake of Failure
20:30-31 4/16 Trusting the New Testament
21:1-19 3/16 Hope in the Wake of Failure
Acts
1:1-5 5/16 Acts: Christ's People Carrying On
1:8 12/15 Missions--A Good Idea
2:1-14 4/12 Who is Jesus? Giver of the Spirit
2:1-14 6/16 The Pattern of Pentecost
1:8 12/15 Missions--A Good Idea
2:1-14 4/12 Who is Jesus? Giver of the Spirit
2:1-14 6/16 The Pattern of Pentecost
2:1-4;13-21 11/13 Lord, Pentecost Us Again
2:1-4,12-21 11/14 Generations
2;22-36 4/15 The Easter Impossibility
2:42-47 11/11 Christians and Stuff
3:1-19 4/14 The One Who Died
6:1-7 3/16 Food Fight
6:1-7 3/16 Food Fight
9:13-19 8/13 How to Pray for the Hard Cases
10 11/12 Barriers Down
18:1-11 6/11 Defeating Discouragement
18:1 5/14 Two—A Tribute to a Christian Couple
Romans 1:1,7 10/12 Who Are We? We Are Saints
1:16-17 11/10 Bulletin Board Changes the World
1:16-17; 3:23-27 2/12 Arrogant? Not So Much
3:23 9/15 That Big Little Word: Sin
3:23 10/15 The Pandemic (A follow-up sermon on the preceding study.)
3:23 9/15 That Big Little Word: Sin
3:23 10/15 The Pandemic (A follow-up sermon on the preceding study.)
6:23 9/11 Buying Trouble
8:26-39 2/12 Committed
12:1-2 2/16 With Heart and Mind
12:3-5 4/16 A New Way of Thinking About Ourselves--and Others
12:6-8 4/16 Ministry--In a New Way
12:9-21 4/16 Love--Within the Church
12:9-21 4/16 Love--For Those on the Outside
12:14ff 10/11 Climbing Inside Their Skin
12:3-5 4/16 A New Way of Thinking About Ourselves--and Others
12:6-8 4/16 Ministry--In a New Way
12:9-21 4/16 Love--Within the Church
12:9-21 4/16 Love--For Those on the Outside
12:14ff 10/11 Climbing Inside Their Skin
I Corinthians 2:3 6/11 Defeating Discouragement
4:10 6/12 Who Are We? Fools
9:24-27 8/12 Who Are We? We Are Athletes
11:17-32 11/12 Thanksgiving Meal
15:20-26,54-57 4/14 Happy Day
2 Corinthians
1:8-11 5/13 Stressed by Stress?
12:1-10 7/13 Giving Up Hope for Good
Galatians (In 2013/14 I presented a series on Galatians; sermons not part of that series will be outside those dates.)
1:1-10 9/13 A Study in Christian Freedom—Introduction
1:11-24 9/13 An Autobiographical Reminder
2:1-10 10/13 Cooperation and Challenge, Part One
2:11-14 10/13 Cooperation and Challenge, Part Two
2:15-21 11/13 The Unthinkable: What Difference Does It Make?
3:1-9 11/13 A New Look At Abraham
3:10-14 12/13 Curses
3:19-29 1/14 Why the Law or Who Are We? Part I
3:19-29 2/14 Who Are We? Part II
4:1-7 2/14 Oh, Grow Up!
4:4-5 12/14 On Time for Christmas
4:8-12 3/14 Backsliding
4:13-20 3/14 Back in the Day
4:21-5:1 4/14 Born Free
5:2-12 5/14 Peril and Promise
5:13-15 5/14 A New Law
5:16-18 5/14 The Conflict
5:19-21,26 6/14 Not a Pretty Picture
5:22-23 6/14 The Spirit’s Orchard, Part I
5:22-24 5/12 Crazymakers
5:24-25 7/14 The Spirit’s Orchard, Part II: Cultivating the Orchard
6:1 8/16 Disappointing Saints
6:1 8/16 Disappointing Saints
6:1-5 7/14 What a Community of Grace Looks Like
6:6 8/14 Good Things for a Learning Community
6:7-10 8/14 Harvest Insurance
6:11-16 9/14 Big Word
6:17-18 9/14 Stigmata
Ephesians
1:1-2 10/16 The Church of Consistent Christianity
1:7-10 11/16 What Is Jesus Doing For Me Now?
1:15-23 12/16 Marks of a Great Church
2:1-3 1/17 Our Dilemma
2:4-6 1/17 Our Deliverance
2:7-9 2/17 Our Destiny
2:10 2/17 Our Design
2:11-18 2/17 Walls Tumbling Down
2:19-22 2/17 Images of a New People
3:1-13 3/17 Integrity
3:14-21 3/17 Praying to Grow
1:1-2 10/16 The Church of Consistent Christianity
1:7-10 11/16 What Is Jesus Doing For Me Now?
1:15-23 12/16 Marks of a Great Church
2:1-3 1/17 Our Dilemma
2:4-6 1/17 Our Deliverance
2:7-9 2/17 Our Destiny
2:10 2/17 Our Design
2:11-18 2/17 Walls Tumbling Down
2:19-22 2/17 Images of a New People
3:1-13 3/17 Integrity
3:14-21 3/17 Praying to Grow
4:1-7 12/14 Final Wishes
4:1-7 3/17 A Wish for Every Church (A revision of 'Final Wishes.")
4:7-11 3/17 Gifts for a Gifted Church
4:12-16 3/17 Ministers All
4:17-24 4/17 Becoming What You Are
4:26-32 4/17 What Kind of Angry Are You?
4:1-7 3/17 A Wish for Every Church (A revision of 'Final Wishes.")
4:7-11 3/17 Gifts for a Gifted Church
4:12-16 3/17 Ministers All
4:17-24 4/17 Becoming What You Are
4:26-32 4/17 What Kind of Angry Are You?
4:26-32 6/13 Hulked Out Lately?
5:1-14 7/17 Walk and Think in Love
5;15-17 7/17 Wise Up!
5:18-21 7/17 Random Lessons for a New People
5:22-32 7/17 Some Words About Marriage
6:1-4 . 7/17 New Parents for New Children
6:5-9 8/17 Words For Those Who Push a Broom and
Those in the Corner Office
5:1-14 7/17 Walk and Think in Love
5;15-17 7/17 Wise Up!
5:18-21 7/17 Random Lessons for a New People
5:22-32 7/17 Some Words About Marriage
6:1-4 . 7/17 New Parents for New Children
6:5-9 8/17 Words For Those Who Push a Broom and
Those in the Corner Office
6:10-17 9/12 Who Are We? We Are Soldiers (NSS)
6:11-20 5/14 Remembering the Warriors (Reposted 8/17)
6:18-20 9/17 Prayer Concerns
Philippians
1:12-20 11/14 Notwithstanding
1:21-26 10/13 Life After Death
2:25-30 1/16 A Greek Bearing Gifts
2:25-30 1/16 A Greek Bearing Gifts
4:6-7 1/12 Everything I Needed to Know About Prayer
4:10-12 1/12 Change or Change
4:13 9/12 Facing the Uncertain Future
5:1-14 9/15 Staying Sane--Sexually
5:1-14 9/15 Staying Sane--Sexually
Colossians—In 2011 I presented a series on Colossians I called Counsel for a Church Facing a Crisis of Confidence.
1:1-8 3/3/11 The Gospel at Work
1:9-12 3/3/11 Praying for Open Eyes
1:13-14 3/12/11 The Rescue
1:15-17 3/14/11 The Cosmic Christ
1:18-20 3/21/11 In Charge
1:21-23 3/29/11 Reconciled
1:24-29 4/3/11 Proclaiming Confidently
2:1-7 4/16/11 What Kind of Church Would You Like
2:8-15 5/5/11 Complete
2:16-19 5/8/11 Who’s That Knockin’ at the Door?
2:20-23 5/16/11 Throw Away the Rule Book
3:1-4 5/29/11 Keeping Your Focus
3:5-11 6/7/11 How To Live Now That You’re Dead
3:5-11 6/13/11 How To Live Now That You’re Dead, Part 2
3:12-17 6/20/11 Dressed for the Occasion
3:18-19 7/11/11 A Word to the Wives…and Other Interested Parties
3:20-21 7/19/11 All in the Family
3:22-4:1 8/2/11 Whether Pushing a Broom or Sitting in a Corner Office
4:2-4 8/7/11 Praying with Open Eyes
4:5-6 8/15/11 On Not Leaving a Bad Taste
4:7-17 8/21/11 That Old Gang of Mine
4:18 8/29/11 Don’t Forget
I Thessalonians
1:1-3 1/15 Change of Plans—the Original
1:4-6 1/15 Topsy Turvy
1:7-10 1/15 Ringing It Out
2:1-12 1/15 Trustworthy
2:13-16 1/15 Responses
2:17-3:8 1/15 Missing You
3:9-13 2/15 A Lesson On Prayer
4:1-8 2/15 Sanctified Sexuality
4:9-12 2/15 Love on the Inside and Out
4:13-14 2/15 Coming Back
4:13-18 3/15 Meet and Greet
4:13 3/15 Comfort One Another
5:1-11 3/15 Like a Thief
5:11 1/14 Comforting Comforters
5:12-13 3/15 Leaders and the Led
5:14-15 6/14 Problem Children
5:14-15 4/15 Problem Children (original version)
5:16-18 4/15 Tough Demands
5:16-24 1/12 Rollovers for a New Year
5:19-23 4/15 The Fire
5:23-28 7/13 Delays On the Road
5:23-24 5/15 Benediction
5:25-28 5/15 Caught in the Swirl of Life
1:7 5/16 Living in Days of Fear
2 Timothy
2:7 5/13 Steady
Heb
10:19-25 3/14 Family Matters
12:1 1/11 Things to Keep in Mind for a New Year
James
1:19-20 7/14 Temper Tempered
3:13-18 10/12 Who Is Wise?
I Peter
1:3-21 1/13 Wonderful
4:12,19 4/12 When “Why?” Goes Unanswered
5:7 1/13 On Not Being So Careful
2 Peter 3:3-4 5/23/11 A Sermon I Might Have Never Preached
I John 2:1-2 5/12 Who is Jesus? Our Advocate
3:2 1/14 On the Way to a Better You
4:1-3 3/12 Who is Jesus? Deity Incarnate (See Jn 20:24)
Jude 22 10/28/10 A Sermon for All But a Few of Us
Revelation
1:9-18 4/12 Who Is Jesus? The Victor
8:1-6 10/14 When the Praise Stopped
22:8-9 6/16 Making First Things First
22:8-9 6/16 Making First Things First
ESSAYS, LECTURES, COMMENTS, TOPICAL STUDIES
Highlights of Church History 5/13
Introducing the Reformation 5/13
Catholic Christianity Comes to the New World 5/13
Protestants and Missions 5/13
Missions in the 20th Century 5/13
The Challenge of Same-Sex Marriage (Revised early 2015) 2/14
Movie Night 6/14
Vanity, Vanity or A Matter of Enthusiastic Ignorance 8/14
Vanity Revisited 8/14
Brothers and Sisters Under Pressure (a topical sermon on persecution) 9/14
Violence 11/12
Thoughts on the Tragedy in Connecticut 12/12
Thoughts on the Tragedy in Connecticut 12/12
A Christian Nation? 7/15
Ten Years Ago 7/15
A "Lost" War: Some Reflections 7/15
The Fundamentalists Were Right--Fundamentally 8/15
Legalism Can Be Fun--But Mostly It's Sneaky 8/15
Consequences 1/16
Table Talk (an essay on the Lord's Supper) 1/16
Trying to Move Away from Discouragement? There's a Better Way 7/16
Everybody Sing 2/17
