Blessing to the Nations: The Coming Day of the Lord’s Salvation

In this week’s sermon Mike Kelley explores Isaiah’s message of renewal, restoration, and the reversal of the Curse in Isaiah 35.

Judgment on the Nations: The Lord Will Vindicate His People

In this week’s sermon Mike Kelley unpacks God’s message of judgment to the nations.

How to Live in Babylon

In Daniel 1, Daniel faces the challenge of living as a stranger and an alien in Babylon. In some cases he cooperates and seeks to bring blessing to the Babylonians by serving them faithfully. In other cases, he refuses to compromise his faith. In many ways our own situation is like that of Daniel.

God’s Plan for the Natons (or the ABCs of Bible Prophecy)

We will be taking a break for a while from 2 Samuel. This week we will be looking at Daniel 2 which sets forth God’s plan for the nations. I was drawn to this text in light of our nation’s recent celebration of Independence Day. Daniel 2 puts the greatness of our nation and all other nations into perspective. Daniel 2 also presents an overview of eschatology with which we all can agree (whether pre-mill, a-mill, post-mill, or pan-mill (it will all pan out in the end)) and profit. How blessed we are to be a part of a kingdom which is glorious and everlasting.

Consecrated to God

This week I am diverting from our studies in 2 Samuel and will be expounding Romans 12:1-2.

I plan, on certain Sundays over the next few months, to preach through Romans 12 with a special emphasis on our love and devotion for one another in the body of Christ.

Because our love for one another springs from our devotion to the Lord, Paul starts Romans 12 by exhorting us to be living sacrifices who are not to be conformed to the world.

Of course the foundation of our devotion to the Lord is the sovereign mercy which He has shown us in Christ — which was the subject of the first 11 chapters of Romans and forms the basis of Paul’s exhortation in Romans 12:1.

Portrait of a Godless Culture: An Appeal to Repent of Sinful Boasting

We will be doing a fairly rapid overview of the first nine chapters and then drawing some application from near the end of chapter nine, where Jeremiah writes, “Thus says the LORD, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.” (9:23-24).

Jeremiah’s theme leading to these texts is that of judgment: A judgment precipitated by the sinful lifestyle and arrogant living of the kingdom of Judah. The modern day parallels to our own day are truly amazing: Truly there is “nothing new under the sun.”