Archive for October, 2009

Faith and Sight

Sermon for Sunday, October 25, 2009

Riverside United Methodist Church

Rev. Douglas Asbury

Job 42.1-17: Job repents before God; his friends are chastised for misrepresenting God; and Job’s fortunes are restored.

Psalm 34.1-8: The psalm of praise and thanksgiving enumerates the blessings that come to one who has faith.

Hebrews 7.23-28: We are reminded that More >

Born to Serve

Sermon for Sunday, October 18, 2009

Riverside United Methodist Church

Rev. Douglas Asbury

Job 38.1-7, 34-41: God speaks to Job in his distress of God’s immense power in order to give Job heart and hope.

Psalm 104:1-9, 24, 35b: The psalmist invites us to praise God for God’s immense power as shown in creation.

Hebrews More >

What Holds Us

Sermon for Sunday, October 11, 2009

Riverside United Methodist Church

Rev. Douglas Asbury

Job 23.1-9, 16-17: Job expresses his sense of God’s absence in his suffering and the idea that his woes have come upon him unjustly.

Psalm 22.1-15: The psalmist writes words that Jesus later spoke from the cross, words that speak both More >

Reshaping the Culture

Sermon for Sunday, October 4, 2009

Riverside United Methodist Church

Rev. Douglas Asbury

Job 1.1, 2.1-10: God points with pride to faithful Job, and Satan suggests a way to disrupt Job’s faithfulness, which God allows Satan to pursue.

Psalm 25.1-10: The psalmists asks God for protection against enemies for the sake of God’s mercy More >