Word of Salvation - April 2011   KNOW THAT GOD IS HOLY; HE JUDGES SINNERS By Rev. John de Hoog (Sermon 1 in a series on Micah)   Text- Micah 1:1-7   What do you think of Psalm 137?   “By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, ‘Sing us one of the songs of Zion!’ How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land? If I...

Word of Salvation – Vol. 35 No. 46 – December 1990   Bethlehem, Birthplace Of The King   Sermon by Rev. S. Bajema on Micah 5:2-5a Reading: Luke 2:1-14; Micah 4:6-5:5a Singing: 339,340,346,341,331,337, H.201   Note: Our Sermon is broken up into three parts:             1. Micah 5:2 The Prophecy, followed by Ps.H. No. 341.             2. Micah 5:3a The Punishment, followed by Ps.H. No. 331:1,2,3.             3. Micah 5:3b-5a The Portent, followed by Ps.H. No. 337.   Beloved Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, What we have before us is a beautiful dream.  All the fondest and greatest of Israel's...

Word of Salvation - May 2011   LAMENTING GOD’S JUDGMENT, John de Hoog (Sermon 2 in a series on Micah)   Text – Micah 1:8-16   Many of you will have some idea of what true Middle Eastern lament looks like. You will have seen snatches of it on TV, from widows in Iraq mourning the senseless death of their beloved husbands to pictures of Jews lamenting as they are being dragged out of their settlements in the Gaza strip. In Micah’s day, when people mourned, they often shaved their hair, wore sackcloth, sat in ashes, wept, and sometimes even employed...

Word of Salvation - June 2011   Two ways in which prophecies of judgment can do people good, and two ways in which they can be fulfilled” By Rev. John de Hoog (Sermon 3 in a series on Micah)   Text – Micah 2   In September 1981 the Rev Jerry Falwell was speaking somewhere in America, and he suggested that God could judge America, perhaps with Soviet military might, unless the nation repented of its sin and turned to him.   Now remember the context. The Soviet Union was still intact and was the great enemy. Jerry Falwell, who died...

Word of Salvation - January 2012   GLORIOUS REVERSAL; GRACIOUS RENEWAL, John de Hoog (Sermon 4 in a series on Micah)   Text: Micah 3:1-4:4 Singing: BOW 90a, PsHy 166, Consider Christ, Ancient of Days   Mt Zion is raised to be the highest of the mountains. People from all nations are streaming to it, and they are coming so that they can learn from the Lord. There is total peace over the whole world, and every man sits under his own vine and under his own fig tree, and no one makes them afraid.   Psalm 87 paints the same...

Word of Salvation – Vol.43 No.45 - December 1998   True Peace this Christmas?   A Christmas Sermon by Rev S Bajema on Micah 5:5a Suggested Hymns: BoW 271; 277; 279; 268; 265 1st Reading: Micah 5:2-5; 2nd Reading: Matthew 2:13-23   Sermonette 1: THIS PEACE IS... LIVING DESPITE OUR STRIFE   Congregation, It has been nearly two thousand years since Jesus Christ came and shared in our humanity by being born in a stable in a small town in Palestine.  That's twenty centuries ago, since He lay as a baby upon an animal feeding trough. The Divine Deity graced us...

Word of Salvation – Vol.43 No.47 - December 1998   “O Little Town of Bethlehem”   A Christmas Sermon by Rev J De Hoog on Micah 5:1-6 Scripture Readings: Matthew 2:1-18; Micah 5:1-6 Suggested Hymns: Bow 247, 261; 253; 272 (before the sermon); 264   Congregation of the Lord Jesus Christ. "O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie!" A poem, a Christmas carol we have sung since childhood.  And the only way most people remember Phillips Brooks, the author of this lovely hymn.  Brooks was a nineteenth century American preacher who became so well known that he...