Word of Salvation - April 2011   KNOW THAT GOD IS HOLY; HE JUDGES SINNERS By Rev. John de Hoog (Sermon 1 in a series on Micah)   Text- Micah 1:1-7   What do you think of Psalm 137?   “By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, ‘Sing us one of the songs of Zion!’ How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land? If I...

Word of Salvation - May 2011   The Lake Of Fire, Rev. John Haverland (Sermon 4 in a series on texts related to the Heidelberg Catechism)   Text: Rev 20:11-15 (read verses 7-15) Heidelberg Catechism LD 4 Readings: Luke 16:19-31, 2 Thessalonians 1 Theme: The nature and reality of the final judgement and punishment Purpose: To impress on us the sobering reality of a final judgement and eternal punishment of unbelievers, but also the assurance of believers in having their name in the book of life.   One of the benefits of following the sequence of the catechism for preaching is...

Word of Salvation - May 2011   LAMENTING GOD’S JUDGMENT, John de Hoog (Sermon 2 in a series on Micah)   Text – Micah 1:8-16   Many of you will have some idea of what true Middle Eastern lament looks like. You will have seen snatches of it on TV, from widows in Iraq mourning the senseless death of their beloved husbands to pictures of Jews lamenting as they are being dragged out of their settlements in the Gaza strip. In Micah’s day, when people mourned, they often shaved their hair, wore sackcloth, sat in ashes, wept, and sometimes even employed...

Word of Salvation - June 2011   Two ways in which prophecies of judgment can do people good, and two ways in which they can be fulfilled” By Rev. John de Hoog (Sermon 3 in a series on Micah)   Text – Micah 2   In September 1981 the Rev Jerry Falwell was speaking somewhere in America, and he suggested that God could judge America, perhaps with Soviet military might, unless the nation repented of its sin and turned to him.   Now remember the context. The Soviet Union was still intact and was the great enemy. Jerry Falwell, who died...