Psalm 90:1-14 Pastor David Taylor It’s 2016. The door on this year is about to close. The New Year is about to open. It’s a time to reflect back, and a time to look forward. To think of what is to come in the new year. What we shall make of it, and what might […]
“Christmas is full of surprises.” Somewhere in my reading this week I ran across that sentence. While I am sure it is true, it doesn’t always seem true. Christmas poses a yearly challenge to those of us who have heard the story since we were children. After you have attended 20 or 30 or 40 Christmas […]
You know the Christmas Story is strongly reliant upon something that most people find very strange. It is reliant upon two people saying yes to God. And saying yes in most unusual circumstances, to a proposal that seems most strange indeed. We are all keenly aware of Mary and how she said yes to God, […]
Today is the Sabbath of Joy. The joy of God. In preparing for the coming of the Christ – we are called to keep alive the vision which provides us with hope and to seek the Peace of God – that peace that only God can give – that peace which comes when we turn, and […]
As Christians we are called to use Advent as a time of preparation and solemn expectation, a time to focus our understanding and efforts on the promises God makes to us during the season. Or in other words to rediscover and reclaim the reason for the season. As Christians we believe that the precious child […]
First Sabbath of Advent – Central SDB Church – Mitchellville, MD – November 26, 2016 – Pastor David Taylor. www.centralsdbchurch.org. There will always be those who believe it is futile to wait for God. But they deliberately forget that he has already come. He came to the Garden of Eden. He came to Noah. He […]
The purpose is life, that is, that our mortality would be swallowed up by life. The gift of the Spirit functions as the guarantee, the downpayment, of our future resurrection. So, Paul concludes in verse 5 where he started in verse 1. We know that we will have a resurrection body in the future. We […]
Pastor David Taylor Psalm 95:7b-11 The people of Israel, in their wanderings in the desert, continually sought for new proof of God’s love. When things did not go their way, when what they wanted did not appear immediately, or in the fashion that they expected, they began to doubt God and accuse Him of not […]
Jesus calls us to pray always and not to lose heart. God has a blessing in mind for us. He has promised to stand by us and to vindicate us. He has promised a new heaven and a new earth. He has promised to save and deliver those who trust in him, – those […]
The essentials of what we teach today – the core of what we preach – and what we urge you to accept and practice as you respond to the Good News of Jesus Christ are all found in these summaries of what the law and the prophets are about. We are called to love God, […]