Appropriateness: Right Timing (Proverbs 26:1-9)

The proverbs in this text affirm that the wise are not wise because they have accumulated a lot of knowledge and experience. They are wise because they know how and when to use their knowledge and experience at least within the limits of human understanding.

Children learn from Bible messages

This article offers examples of two children's sermon. The first uses a phone book to remind children about the importance of God's Word. The second teaches that, just as flowers need good soil to grow, we need to be planted where we can receive the warmth of God's love.

Easter: He Has Been Raised (Matthew 28:1-3)

If there be hope for us, declares this sermon - hope which is not a lie - then it must be hope not of our own creation, mortal as we are, not the result of wishful thinking or human potential. It must be something outside of us and our finitude, some stunning intrusion, some act of God reversing our shuffle toward the grave, overcoming the final enemy. That's Easter!