Word of Salvation – Vol. 54 No.4 – January 2009   Taking,Breaking Or Making?   A Sermon by Rev Sjirk Bajema on Heidelberg Catechism, LD 42  Scripture Reading: 2 Samuel 12:1-10   Congregation... How would you feel if you were told a story like the one we read from 2 Samuel 12? A story that tells you of something so absolutely unfair you cannot help but grow very angry. What a terrible injustice! A devastating example of man’s inhumanity to man. How could anyone treat someone the way that rich man treated the poor man, just taking his lamb? The reaction of David...

Word of Salvation - January 2011   DON’T STEAL; GIVE LIFE INSTEAD By Rev. John de Hoog (Sermon 9 in a series on the Ten Commandments)   Reading: 1 Timothy 6:6-10, 17-21 Text: Exodus 20:15; Luke 12:13-21   The reading from Luke 12 contains the famous story of the rich fool. A simple story with an obvious meaning - don’t put too much value on earthly goods for you cannot take them with you. Don’t be greedy for more all the time, for you will lose it all in the end anyway.   Let’s think briefly about this parable. Notice three...