Messages by Steve Kromer (Page 2)
Wonders of His Love
Merry Christmas! This morning, we join together to celebrate the wonders of God’s great love! The greatest gift ever given to us is Jesus, God’s own Son. The wonders of the love of Jesus is expressed in countless ways. His life lived in service to others, obedience to His Father, willingness to give His sinless life up as a sacrifice for our sins, and on and on. However, one of the greatest wonders of His love is how He left…
Great Light, Great News, Great Joy
Next week is Christmas!!! Christmas is a season of hope, of peace, of rejoicing. It’s a season where we are more aware and intentional about serving the needs of those around us and showing loved ones just how much we care. It’s a season where there is a heightened expectation of the miraculous to occur. The miraculous arrival of Jesus came during a time of darkness and hopelessness. For about 400 years, not much is recorded in regard to any…
Prophecy Fulfilled
As we continue on through the Christmas season, we’re reminded that God’s plans are very rarely in line with our own. He doesn’t often work in the way in which we would expect Him to nor when we would expect Him to. There is perhaps no better example of this reality than with the Christmas story. Even though the arrival of Jesus was prophesied about in great detail, even those who were scholars and teachers of these prophesies who were…
Filled to Follow
As we move from Thanksgiving into the Christmas season, we’re reminded of the name of Jesus both prophesied by Isaiah and also the name which the angel instructed Joseph to give to Mary’s child; Immanuel – God with us. This is a tremendous name that helps describe and understand more fully who God is. He is the God who is with us. This name for Jesus perfectly explains who Jesus truly was – God in the flesh. However, that name…
Root of Gratitude
This Thursday, we celebrate Thanksgiving. It’s important for us to take time to reflect on our lives and to give thanks for the many blessings that we have. No matter what season of life we may find ourselves in, no matter how challenging our circumstances, there is always something to be thankful for. This is especially true when we shift our focus from our circumstances to Christ and see more clearly who He is and all that He has done…
The Fallen Risen
So this morning, hopefully we all remembered to fall back one hour. We were reminded last week of how important it is to keep moving forward in life. After all, there’s no turning back! However, there is a risk in moving forward. It’s far more of a risk for some of us than it is for others. How many here have a tendency to be a bit clumsy? Moving forward presents a fall risk. Usually falling is a downward motion,…
No Turning Back
Next week, we turn our clocks back one hour. We fall back and get an extra hour of sleep before coming back to church. According to our clocks it may look like we get to go back and live that hour all over again, however, we know the reality. None of us can ever do such a thing. Daylight savings time is a man-made event and time hasn’t really started over. Whatever was done during that hour is done and…
Treasure (Part 2)
This morning, we’re continuing where we left off last week. Jesus shared in Matthew 13 that He spoke to people in parables to essentially hide the secrets about the Kingdom of Heaven in plain sight. Those who were seeking the kingdom found it through His parables. Those who weren’t really seeking, or even seeking to oppose Jesus, wouldn’t understand them at all. Jesus also shared in Matthew 13 the reality that the Kingdom of Heaven is like a house containing…
Treasure
It seems that God has us on a journey the past month or so learning how to better discern and perceive Him and what He is doing in our lives. Last week, Annette brought us a fresh and new perspective on the significance and the power of the blood of Jesus. She provided historical and cultural context that helped bring a new level of depth of understanding that helped us to more fully perceive why Jesus shed His blood to…
Perception
Today begins the Jewish New Year; the feast or festival of trumpets found in Leviticus 23. Modern Jews call it Rosh Hashanah. Today begins the year 5783 in the Lord! It is celebrated as a Sabbath day of celebration where no work is to be done, a food offering is to be brought to the Lord, and with several blasts on the shofar, or trumpet. Though I don’t think that any of us here this morning are Jewish by birth,…