obedience

Be careful how you build

Sunday service, Erlo Stegen, 11 Jun 2017 Matt 7:24-27 24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did…

Be on Christ’s side

Sunday service, Detlef Stegen, 21 May 2017 In England there was a time of drought and only about a week left before the crops would fail; so they arranged a prayer service. On the way to the service the pastor noticed a small girl carrying an umbrella. He thought it funny and went to her…

Human reasoning

Sunday service, Dietmar Joosten, 07 May 2017 Genesis 18:1-15 (New International Version (NIV)) The Three Visitors 18 The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. 2 Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When…

Fire burns

Sunday service, Erlo Stegen, 20 Nov 2016 Proverbs 6:27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? This question illustrates how sin brings about death. In this portion sin is likened to a fire and the question is, won’t you and your clothes be burned? Solomon is teaching us that…

Why Jesus wept

Sunday service, Albu van Eeden, 21 Aug 2016 Luke 19:41-42 “41 As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it 42 and said, ‘If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes’” The Lord Jesus beheld the city and…

The plumb line

The plumb line

Sunday service, Erlo Stegen, 12 Jun 2016 Amos 7:7 7 This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his hand. 8 And the Lord asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” “A plumb line,” I replied. Then the…

All for Christ!

Sunday service, Erlo Stegen, 24 April 2016 Rom 12:1-2 “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the…

Falling stars

Sunday service, Erlo Stegen, 03 April 2016 Luke 24:28-29 28 And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further. 29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to…