Reverend Bowen: Sermons

About three pages into the Bible, God promises to win the battle against the enemy by way of a promised offspring who will bleed and die in apparent defeat. We…

Even from the early chapters, the Bible tells the story of a battle between those who are loyal to our God, the mighty king, and those who are opposed to…

As we begin to look at Christmas in light of the big story of the Bible, we view the manger scene as part of the larger story of a mighty…

The deaths of Ananias and Sapphira are both a warning about the dangers of pretending and an invitation into the kind of life that requires no pretending.

The honeymoon is over for the early church as we come to Acts 4. We follow the pattern of the story under three heads: the gospel invites opposition, the Church…

When the man who was lame since birth is healed and leaping in the Temple, Peter sees it as a picture of the people to whom Jesus comes, the power…

The end of Acts 2 gives us a picture of the community that exists when people are pursuing Jesus together. We consider the marks of the healthy church, and how…

What is a Christian? This is the simple but pivotal question that we ask as we follow Peter’s response to the question of the crowds, “What shall we do?”