Sunday Sermon

“Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise” Galatians 4:28. God gives us the promise and He does this out of love. God is always faithful even when we aren’t.

“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light” (Ephesians 5:8)

There may be joy found in several fields of activity. Some find it in sport, some in music, some in their profession, and some even in Christian work. But the purest joy in the universe is to be found only in fellowship with the Father

Hebrews 11 tells of the prophet Enoch, who so pleased God and walked so intimately with him, he never died. Enoch is an example for us as we learn to walk with God.

We tend to pick and choose when we want our light to shine and when we don’t. But imagine for a moment, what would happen in other areas of our lives if we decided that sometimes we wanted the light to shine and other times not.

The old wine had to run out, at Cana, before Jesus did His miracle. He is waiting now for our strength to come to an end. All our failures and defeats are meant by God to bring us to the end, for He can manifest His power perfectly only in our weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9).

Jesus was the only person ever born who had the opportunity to choose the family into which he was to be born. None of us had that choice. Which family did Jesus choose?

It can be easy to loose that spirit of Christmas. Stores will not be playing Christmas music anymore, the world around us will have taken down all the decorations that remind of this special holiday, and Hallmark will no longer be showing those somewhat cheesy Christmas movies that pull you in in spite of yourself. But for Catholics, we will just be getting started.

There are times in our life when we go through certain crises'. When we are trying to serve the Lord and we find that although we are doing everything that we know to do, we are spiritually tired, we lack the grace and Holy Ghost power to keep going! We need a renewed awareness of the life that was given to us in the sacraments of baptism and confirmation. We need an intensified awareness of the presence and power of the Holy Ghost. We need to be endued with power from on high again. The "rivers of living water" seems to have dried up in our lives. There seems to be a dam from within that is keeping it flowing out of our lives. Yet Jesus had promised that everyone who believed in Him would have rivers of living water flowing out of their life - they'd never be dry.

You NEVER just “happen” to have something happen in your life. There are no coincidences for Christians. GOD is orchestrating every situation, every circumstance, even (and especially!) the difficult ones, for His purposes, to “clean” you; to “refine” you; and to prepare you for Emanuel's coming.

We typically associate "New Year's Day" with January 1st. But for the Church, "New Year's Day" is actually the First Sunday of Advent. On this day we begin a brand new Church year.

Before God pronounces a curse on man and woman, before He expels them from the garden, He gives them salvation hope, hope of regeneration- that there will come a Savior, that there will come One who will conquer Satan and therefore conquer sin.

“Whence shall we buy bread?” (St. John 6:5) Focus on God. Be Thankful for all His blessings. Look for Him to come again in all His glory and majesty.

Man's greatest honor and privilege is to do the will of God. This was what the Lord Jesus taught His disciples. But how can you know what His will is?

How can we beg God to forgive us and then turn around and refuse to forgive those who have wronged us? How can we expect God to be compassionate with us, but not show compassion to those around us?

The true citizen of Heaven not only has his home in Heaven, but his heart is there as well. Not only does he look forward to dwelling there hereafter, but even now he seeks to be holy and heavenly in life and character.

Has God begun a good work in your life? Do you feel incomplete and unfinished? Fear not. God will complete his work in you if you will only submit to the construction that He is doing with in you.

We are told in Revelation 14, that there were 144,000 people who sang a new song before the throne. Revelation 14:3 tells us "no one else could learn that song except these people, and they learned it while they were on Earth". What is this new song that these 144,000 people were singing?

Only God knows how much time each of us has on this earth to make decisions that will impact eternity. When God says we should be “redeeming the time,” He wants us to live in constant awareness of that ticking clock and make the most of the time we have.

“It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord”. (Psalm 92:1) Some of us only go to God in prayer when we need something. Do we at least thank God for our blessings? Never fail to thank God every single day for all the blessings He bestows on us.