Lewes Presbyterian Church Podcast

“Without Frustration” sermon

Making Peace
Teaching Your Kids
Forgiving Others
When life goes sideways, what do you do?
Sermon Date: 10/06/2024
Sermon Series: PARENTING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
Sermon Title: "Without Frustration”
Speaker: Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Ephesians 6:4 “Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the trainingand instruction of the Lord.”
 
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“Direction” sermon

Bringing up the next generation.
Priorities in Life.
Training a child in the way they should go.
Sermon Date: 9/29/2024
Sermon Series: PARENTING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
Sermon Title: "Direction”
Speaker: Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Proverbs 22:6
Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
 
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“Discipline” sermon

Third in a series on Parenting From the Old Testament.
Sermon Date: 9/22/2024
Sermon Series: PARENTING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
Sermon Title: "Discipline”
Speaker: Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading:
 
Proverbs 13:24 
“Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.
Proverbs 29:15“A rod and a reprimand impart wisdom, but a child left undisciplined disgraces its mother.”
 
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“A Last Generation” sermon

A lesson in history that pertains today.
Sermon Date: 9/15/2024
Sermon Series: PARENTING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
Sermon Title: " A Last Generation”
Speaker: Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Judges 2:6-15 (NIV)
Disobedience and Defeat
“After Joshua had dismissed the Israelites, they went to take possession of the land, each to their own inheritance. The people served the LORD throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had seen all the great things the LORD had done for Israel.
 
Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of a hundred and ten. And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
 
After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel. Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals. They forsook the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped various gods of the peoples around them. They aroused the LORD’s anger 13 because they forsook him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. In his anger against Israel the LORD gave them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist. Whenever Israel went out to fight, the hand of the LORD was against them to defeat them, just as he had sworn to them. They were in great distress.
 
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“Write This On Your Door Post” sermon

First in a series on Parenting From the Old Testament.
See The Big Picture - A history lesson sprinkled with nuggets of Wisdom.
Sermon Date: 9/8/2024
Sermon Series: PARENTING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
Sermon Title: "Write This On Your Door Post‬”
Speaker: Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy‬ ‭11‬:‭13‬-‭28‬ ‭
“So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul— then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil. I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied. Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them. Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you. Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth. If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him— then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you. Every place where you set your foot will be yours: Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea. No one will be able to stand against you. The Lord your God, as he promised you, will put the terror and fear of you on the whole land, wherever you go. See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse— the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.”
 
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“Making Christ Known” Sermon

Sermon Date: 9/1/2024
Sermon Series: COLOSSIANS
Sermon Title: "Making Christ Known”
Speaker: Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Colossians‬ ‭4‬:‭1‬-‭6‬
 
“Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven. Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should. Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.”
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“Ordering Family Life” Sermon

Sermon Date: 8/25/2024
Sermon Series: COLOSSIANS
Sermon Title: "Ordering Family Life‬”
Speaker: Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Colossians 3:18-25
 
“Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged. Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. Anyone who does wrong will be repaid for their wrongs, and there is no favoritism.”‭‭
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“Put On Love” Sermon

Sermon Date: 8/18/2024
Sermon Series: COLOSSIANS
Sermon Title: "Put On Love‬”
Speaker: Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Colossians‬ ‭3‬:‭12‬-‭17‬ ‭
 
“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”‭‭
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“Set Your Minds” sermon

Sermon Date: 8/11/2024
Sermon Series: COLOSSIANS
Sermon Title: "Set Your Minds”
Speaker: Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Colossians‬ ‭3‬:‭1‬-‭11‬ 
 
“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.”
 
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“Luxury Matchmakers” Sermon

Sermon Date: 8/4/2024
Sermon Title: "Luxury Matchmakers”
Speaker: Guest minister Rev. Dr. Tom Herrick
Scripture Reading: Ephesians‬ ‭3‬:‭7‬-‭21‬ 
““I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace given me through the working of his power. Although I am less than the least of all the Lord’s people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the boundless riches of Christ, and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence. I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory. For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”
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