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Sermon in a nutshell: Blessings from God (Leviticus 26: 1-13)
Sermon in a nutshell: Blessings from God (Leviticus 26: 1-13 The blessings are stored for you and me! God promised to bless us with the following blessings: I will give you your rains in their season. The land shall yield its produce. The trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Your threshing shall overtake…
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Sermon in a nutshell: Share the opportunities (Lev. 25:8-12)
Sermon in a nutshell: Share the opportunities (Lev. 25:8-12) Who is the Owner of Everything? To us believers, God is the creator and owner of everything. The Bible declared that the land belongs to God. We believe that our life, our possessions, and our talents are all God’s. This is the foundation of our ethics…
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Sermon in a nutshell: “Take a rest!” (Leviticus 23:1-3)
Sermon in a nutshell: “Take a rest!” (Leviticus 23: 1-3) We celebrate God’s power and glory through festivals! In the Bible we have many festivals. These festivals are designed to celebrate God’s power and glory. For example, once a week, we take rest. It used to be a Saturday Sabbath and now a Sunday…
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Sermon in a nutshell: “Light the lamp” (Leviticus 24: 1-4)
Sermon in a nutshell: “Light the lamp” (Leviticus 24: 1-4) We light the lamp to show that God protects us all the time. When we go into a church, sometimes we can see the “eternal light.” Most churches light the candles for the worship services. This lighting of candles has a long tradition. In Leviticus,…
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Sermon in a nutshell: Are you able to eat or not? (Leviticus 22:1-9)
Leviticus 22: 1-9 Are you able to eat or not? We cannot eat anything when we are sick. When I go to see my doctor, he wants me to have a diet. He wants me to lose some weight. Then he can be more aggressive when he tells me what to eat and what not…
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Psalm 150
Psalm 150 Praise for God’s Surpassing Greatness At the end of the psalm, the psalmist praises God once again. In the middle of psalms, we encountered complaints, cries, anguishes, and doubts, but at the end, everything turned into praise! That should be our faith journey. We may have some growing pain on our faith journey…
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Psalm 149
Psalm 149 Praise for God’s Goodness to Israel God is good to Israel. The question is, however, who the Israel is! Israel used to be a name of a people. However, the Bible keep emphasizing the fact that those who live according to the will of God is Israel regardless their race, culture, and background.…
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Psalm 148
Psalm 148 All the creatures praise God in the universe! Not only humans praise God. Not only animals and plants praise God. To the psalmist, sparkling stars are praising God and blowing wind is also praising God. When the psalmist feels, sees, and hears the chorus of the universe, she exclaims that the whole universe…
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Psalm 147
Psalm 147 God cares for all the little creatures! God is the Creator of the whole universe. However, God does not pay attention only to the big creatures but also to the little ones. Sometimes, the psalmist feels that God pays more attention to the weak ones. When God build up Jerusalem (in literal or…
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Sermon in a nutshell: “Take a rest!” (Leviticus 23: 1-3)
Sermon in a nutshell: “Take a rest!” (Leviticus 23: 1-3) We celebrate God’s power and glory through festivals! In the Bible we have many festivals. These festivals are designed to celebrate God’s power and glory. For example, once a week, we take rest. It used to be a Saturday Sabbath and now a Sunday worship.…
