https://sermons.logos.com/profile/12361761https://files.logoscdn.com/v1/files/62952447/assets/13831353/content.jpg?download=true&signature=W7cr158qvEkIpOU1dcx00vI3wg8&e=.jpghttps://sermons.logos.com/profile/12361761RSS for NodeWed, 01 Jul 2026 13:54:13 GMT60Calvary Bible ChurchSermons from Calvary Bible Church, Neligh, NECalvary Bible Churchpastorcbcneligh@gmail.comnohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1798669https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1798669Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:31:30 GMTCalvary Bible Church2216nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1793157https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1793157Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:15:02 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchHappy Father’s Day! I normally have a long introduction for Mother’s Day sermons because I am not a mom and I want all mom’s to know that while I am preaching to them, I really don’t understand what they are going through. I am a dad, though, so I don’t need to give a long introduction. I understand.…1697nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1789930https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1789930Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:30:42 GMTCalvary Bible Church1975nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1785424https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1785424Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:23:52 GMTCalvary Bible Church2239nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1781056https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1781056Sun, 31 May 2026 16:34:32 GMTCalvary Bible Church2857nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1775618https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1775618Sun, 24 May 2026 16:15:19 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchJesus said: “In this world you will have trouble.” The ministry “Open Doors” tells about Aasif in Afganistan. This happened in the last 4 years. After becoming a Christian, Aasif* had a dream to return to his birthplace to share the gospel with others. He and his family went, and over two years more…1836nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1771285https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1771285Sun, 17 May 2026 16:13:23 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchI really enjoy doing weddings. This year, I might have 3 weddings to perform, Lord willing. I stand up here, before the father gives the bride away and I ask both the groom: will you have this woman to be your wedded wife, to live together in holy marriage? Will you love her, comfort her, honor and keep…2161nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1763180https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1763180Sun, 03 May 2026 16:29:15 GMTCalvary Bible Church2283nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1758378https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1758378Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:19:44 GMTCalvary Bible Church1917nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1747750https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1747750Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:23:13 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchWhat is peace? Well, a dictionary will tell you: a state of tranquility or quiet, freedom from disquieting or oppressive thoughts or emotions, harmony in personal relations, a state or period of mutual concord between governments. All that is great. I suppose a better question would be: when is peace?…1997nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1742588https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1742588Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:16:28 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchHe is risen! He is risen indeed! It’s been a good morning of celebration. Some of you have been here from the beginning. Others are just joining in. Whenever you came, I am grateful that we can celebrate the truth together that Jesus is alive! That fact, that truth, changes everything. This morning for…1488nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1742650https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1742650Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:43:32 GMTCalvary Bible Church2353nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1738822https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1738822Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:15:54 GMTCalvary Bible Church1922nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1732903https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1732903Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:21:38 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchWe’ve got a lot of ground to cover today, so I am going to just jump into the passage. Daniel chapters 10-12 are the same vision. Daniel 10 is an introduction to the vision. We studied that last week. Daniel 11 ish is the meat of the vision. Daniel 12 is the conclusion. We’ll be hitting that after Easter.…2176nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1728454https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1728454Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:20:48 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchWe live in a broken world. It’s been broken since Adam and Eve ate the fruit in the Garden of Eden. Every generation has experienced this brokenness. In some ways, we have all experienced the same brokenness. In other ways, each generation has their own twist. In the generation of technology, where everyone…1812nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1723665https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1723665Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:18:44 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchThink about your life. What is the worst thing that you have done. Now think about the worst thing that someone close to you has done. Maybe a family member. Maybe a friend. What does it look like for you to pay for what you did? What does it look like for that other person to pay for what they did?…2132nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1718921https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1718921Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:48:12 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchWe live in a time period when people want justice. We’ve had Black Lives Matter. We’ve had anti-ICE demonstrations. We’ve had climate warriors. We’ve had Blue Lives Matter. We’ve had volunteer border patrol agents. We’ve had anti-climate change demonstrations. Whatever the issue is, you can turn on the…2203nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1714027https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1714027Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:09:32 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchHave you ever had a dream that stuck with you for years? I have. I remember one dream from my childhood, probably because I had it multiple times. I was walking through a cave and my whole family was dead. I was all alone. Yeah, you can imagine how that dream troubled me and why it has stuck with me.…2165nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1709231https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1709231Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:23:05 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchWe’ve been walking through Daniel, seeing how amazing God is as he proves his character to the kings of Babylon, to the people of Israel, and to Daniel and his friends. We have seen the pride of Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, and how God cut them down to size, one to repentance and the other to destruction.…2138nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1704591https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1704591Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:08:27 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchTonight is the Superbowl. The Seahawks and the Patriots are going to face off in a game that really doesn’t matter, but I enjoy watching every year. And if you ask me who I am going to root for… I don’t like either team, so I am going to borrow my dad’s line and say that I am cheering for the referees.…1951nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1700265https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1700265Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:28:39 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchLast week, we talked about Nebuchadnezzar’s pride, and we applied it to ourselves, discussing our choice to pull worship from God or to point worship to God. We are going to talk more about pride, but three important aspects of pride found in a verse in the middle of this chapter. Than, we are going…1577nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1695327https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1695327Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:18:50 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchWe are working our way through Daniel. Before we do, can I talk about my pride a little bit? Growing up, I got angry a lot, mostly because of my pride. There were certain things that really got my goat, and then I would erupt. Other things frustrated me, and I would get really quiet, because of my anger.…2064nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1662680https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1662680Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:19:53 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchHave you ever looked back at moments of your life and asked “why?” Why did that have to happen? Why was I bullied as a teen? Why did I not get into the school that I wanted to get into? Why did the closest cousin to me commit suicide? Why did one of my best friends in college die of hypothermia? Why…1956nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1651406https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1651406Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:36:05 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchThis is the first sermon of the year. We are starting a new series, exploring Daniel and Revelation. Most people think about Daniel and Revelation and they think about End Times Prophecy. Which wouldn’t be wrong. And yes, we will dive into prophecy. However, that is not the whole picture. Both books…2442nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1643281https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1643281Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:11:43 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchMerry Christmas! My kids are in IL with their grandparents. Maggie and I will drive out to be with them this week. We’ll be coming back on Saturday to celebrate the first Sunday in 2026 with you. I’ve been praying something everyday this Christmas season: That I might share about Jesus one time each…1605nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1634523https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1634523Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:10:44 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchIf you read an article or watch a news show about the Middle East, Palestine, or Israel, what they are experiencing these days, though really hard, is not new. We could grab those stories, change some names and dates, and read what was happening over almost 3000 years ago. The only solution to the heartache…2031nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1629797https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1629797Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:41:11 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchIf we did normal advent Sundays, this Sunday would be peace. Last Sunday would have been hope. We don’t do those normal advent Sundays though, because I am not normal. And we as a church are not normal. But, our passage today is the basis, the proof, of all 4 Sundays of Advent: Hope, Peace, Joy, and…1884nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1621581https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1621581Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:16:54 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchLast week, we left Jesus in the house of Caiaphas the High priest, where they had accused him of blasphemy and sentenced him to death. Unfortunately, this action is against the Jewish law. No one could be sentenced to death in the middle of the night. So we pick up historical account in Matthew 27:1…1887nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1616979https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1616979Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:14:19 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchLast week, we finished the teaching portion of the Gospel of Matthew. We turn to the events leading up to Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. This is a sober passage, which is normally read around Easter. Not necessarily around Thanksgiving, but it is the basis for everything that we are thankful…1972nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1612243https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1612243Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:38:34 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchI don’t know if you have had the privilege of coloring with a small kid. Coloring with a 5-10 year old is one thing. Coloring with a 1-3 year old is something different. They grab a color and they color the entire page with that color. Yes, it was supposed to be a multi-colored dinosaur. But now it is…2334nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1609223https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1609223Sun, 02 Nov 2025 17:25:16 GMTCalvary Bible Church2678nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1603269https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1603269Sun, 26 Oct 2025 16:24:21 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchHave you ever wanted to give someone a piece of your mind? Straight up tell them that they are being a jerk. Well, I wouldn’t recommend it. Because, when we do that, we are probably being a jerk also. It’s the whole, when you point three fingers are pointing back at you. Which is why, when I was a teen…1980nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1598645https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1598645Sun, 19 Oct 2025 17:56:44 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchWe’ve got another long passage today. In the middle of this passage, Jesus makes a strong statement against the religious leaders: Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “ ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in…2272nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1595756https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1595756Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:40:12 GMTCalvary Bible Church2079nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1589623https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1589623Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:35:16 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchThere are a few conversations that I love having. I love talking with someone about Jesus and their need for him. I love having someone approach me and ask how they can become a follower of Jesus. I love having followers of Jesus come up to me and ask how they can grow in their faith. And I love having…2047nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1585381https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1585381Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:19:15 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchLong time ago, before we had GPS systems that talked annoyingly to us. We had maps. Very useful things. Other times, we had friends and family who knew the better way. So, we dropped the map and we caravanned where we needed to go. Sometimes that was through the big city, and we knew the only way we…2119nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1580317https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1580317Sun, 21 Sep 2025 16:30:20 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchHave you ever driven bumper cars? They are so much fun. Everything that you are not supposed to do in a regular car, you get to do in bumper cars. You are constantly bumping off of each other. What is ironic about bumper cars is that you don’t have to actually pay someone to bump off of people. We spend…2398nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1576176https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1576176Sun, 14 Sep 2025 16:19:21 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchWhen I was in high school, I went to a political activism camp just outside of Washington, D.C. I loved it. I learned about how to influence politicians. I learned about the legislative process. I also learned how to bring down the house in a talent show. I cannot believe that I am sharing this story.…2077nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1571753https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1571753Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:40:36 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchIt is said that the nine most important words in a marriage are: “I was wrong. I am sorry. Please forgive me.” These are also some of the hardest words to say. They take humility. And no one really truly desires humility. Merriam-Webster defines humility as the freedom from pride or arrogance. It comes…2167nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1568081https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1568081Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:37:23 GMTCalvary Bible Church2682nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1563690https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1563690Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:18:00 GMTCalvary Bible Church2425nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1554067https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1554067Sun, 10 Aug 2025 16:19:40 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchOne of the interesting portions of sitting at the booth at the County Fair is watching people. Seeing how people approach booths. How people walk around booths. I would sit behind our booth and call out to whoever came by: Everything at this table is free! Some people would come and look. Others would…1984nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1551682https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1551682Sun, 03 Aug 2025 14:00:00 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchWhen I was a kid, I really enjoyed watching animal judging, especially showmanship. I was fascinated by the intentional movements and actions of the kids, the way they were supposed to dress, the movements they made, the way they intentionally handled the animals and held the lead ropes. I never showed…3253nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1545309https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1545309Sun, 27 Jul 2025 16:08:34 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchSo, I went to Pensacola Christian College for my bachelor’s degree. Many of you have heard of this school, but many haven’t. I went there because it was a cheap Christian college. When I started, they charged $5000/yr for room, board, and tuition. When I left, they had increased it to about $6500, I…1954nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1541609https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1541609Sun, 20 Jul 2025 16:18:47 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchMost months, I am able to meet with a group of pastors in the surrounding area, good, solid Bible-preaching pastors, and talk about life and ministry. Most of the time there is laughter. Sometimes, there is tears. I think each one of us has cried sometime during those meetings. Sometimes there is energy.…1969nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1537183https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1537183Sun, 13 Jul 2025 16:26:07 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchHave you ever gotten up the guts to share with someone about Jesus and the door has been shut firmly in your face? Preacher school has lots of odd assignments. One of them was for evanglism class. We were to share the Gospel with 5 people over the course of the week. Well, I didn’t get around much. So,…1845nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1533083https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1533083Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:46:16 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchI hope that everyone had a great 4th of July. We got to celebrate the independence that we have, the ways that God has blessed us as a nation, and hopefully, we spent some time in prayer for our nation, that revival would come and that we would place our hope back in the God who created us, instead of…1821nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1526236https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1526236Sun, 22 Jun 2025 16:38:40 GMTCalvary Bible Church3154nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1522112https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1522112Sun, 15 Jun 2025 16:19:20 GMTCalvary Bible Church1490nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1516753https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1516753Sun, 08 Jun 2025 16:35:01 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchI don’t think that I am odd in this. Maggie and I have been in knockout draw out fights. And when we are in the middle of of the conflict, one of us realizes that the only reason we are having this discussion is that we had a misunderstanding. Perhaps I said some that she didn’t understand. Or perhaps…1922nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1512637https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1512637Sun, 01 Jun 2025 16:25:28 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchI’m about to spend two weeks at Camp Assurance, coming back on the weekend between for the church service and congregational meeting. I enjoy camp ministry. However, as I look ahead, I am faced with the fact that I am going to be really tired. And what am I going to do for rest. One of the top idols…1861nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1509870https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1509870Sun, 25 May 2025 16:40:14 GMTCalvary Bible Church3111nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1505554https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1505554Sun, 18 May 2025 16:22:34 GMTCalvary Bible Church1833nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1500053https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1500053Sun, 11 May 2025 16:19:25 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchMother’s Day is the hardest sermon in the year for me to prepare. It is my one chance to give a shot in the arm for mom’s everywhere that they get can get through another year. It is my one shot to urge them specifically to be godly. It is my one change to put my foot in my mouth and alienate over 50%…1868nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1495924https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1495924Sun, 04 May 2025 16:40:49 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchI am grateful for the opportunity to attend the Small Town Pastor’s conference in Morton, IL. Every time I attend, I came away refreshed and exhausted. This was our 9th conference. And because of that, while the content was great, the best part was the community. Being with fellow men in the rural ministry…2415nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1492741https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1492741Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:01:54 GMTCalvary Bible Church1354nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1486843https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1486843Sun, 20 Apr 2025 16:12:06 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchHe is risen! The celebration of Easter is a great time. Life has a few monumental times, where one goes through it and your life completely changes. Marriage. The birth of a child. Death of a parent, a spouse, a child. There a few times where life completely changes and you are never the same again.…1760nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1487295https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1487295Sat, 19 Apr 2025 00:48:06 GMTCalvary Bible Church2628nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1486829https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1486829Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTCalvary Bible Church1904nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1478202https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1478202Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:31:35 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchSocial Media is a weird thing. For those of you who are not familiar with Social media, be grateful. For those of you who live on social media, I’m sorry. Maggie and I have begun removing ourselves from social media platforms, because we just can’t stomach it anymore. There is an interesting term used…1720nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1469325https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1469325Sun, 23 Mar 2025 16:31:09 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchTwo questions plagued the Jews when Jesus had his earthly ministry: Who is this man and who did he come for? Of course, these are the same questions that people wrestle with today. The Jews thought that Jesus was just a good teacher, if that. Perhaps he was just a misguided carpenter from Nazareth that…1970nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1465221https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1465221Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:17:25 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchRobert Frost wrote an amazing poem in 1916: the Road Not Taken. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps…1924nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1460757https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1460757Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:13:49 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchIt’s one of the most famous concepts in the Bible. Though it’s fame is getting less and less as generation Z and Alpha are not being raised in a moral society. Most people have heard of the 10 commandments, though they may not be able to say one of the 10 commandments. Most people have heard of the cross,…1994nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1456492https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1456492Sun, 02 Mar 2025 17:40:29 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchWhen I was about 7, my folks gave me a woodworking kit. I loved this. I made my mom a wooden planter, I made my sister a bench for her dolls, and I made myself a treasure box that had an actual lock on it. And for the next 11 years, I put my most prized possessions into this box, and I hid this box far…2269nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1452320https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1452320Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:47:24 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchPeople spend a significant portion of time thinking about others. Different psychologists created studies on this, finding out that 50% of the time we are thinking about someone else. Sometimes we are thinking about what that person thinks about us. Some of us are more concerned about this than others.…2765nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1448064https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1448064Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:12:24 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchA verse that keeps coming back to me throughout my life is 1 Sam 16:7 . Samuel has come to Jesse’s house to anoint the new king of Israel. Samuel thinks that Jesse’s older sons would make perfect kings. But God told Samuel: But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for…1668nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1439523https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1439523Sun, 09 Feb 2025 17:21:33 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchBack when I was with CFA, I was in charge of hiring and firing for my shift. Thankfully, I only had to fire one person. Unfortunately, I really think I fired the wrong person. But, that’s another story. The person I should have fired quit soon after. I was able to hire some amazing workers, and shape…2354nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1439525https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1439525Sun, 02 Feb 2025 17:35:07 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchWe talked about politics a little bit last week. So, might as well talk about it this week as well. Right? It’s amazing how we can start seeing how strong people are in their faith, in their desire to follow Jesus in a holy life, by how they interact with people around an election, around a new inauguration.…1984nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1435254https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1435254Sun, 26 Jan 2025 17:15:10 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchThis is no secret. I really enjoy politics. Election season is like ice cream for me. So much fun. Seeing the candidates, analyzing why they campaign the way that they do, why they go where they go, what they say, what they don’t say. It’s so much fun. The art of presenting an idea. Other’s might term…2395nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1431246https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1431246Sun, 19 Jan 2025 17:22:01 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchWe know the story. We could borrow the phrase from Beauty and the Beast: Tale as old as time. Eve is standing in the Garden, looking at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the serpent speaks to her. Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said…2017nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1427184https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1427184Sun, 12 Jan 2025 17:30:22 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchHave you ever been through an experience and felt incredibly alone? Wishing that someone would be there with you? It’s the little kid reaching up and grabbing his dad’s hand, and his dad squeezes it, saying “It’s okay, I’m here.” And all of a sudden, the situation isn’t as bad as it seemed. Then adulthood…1704nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1423431https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1423431Sun, 05 Jan 2025 17:31:07 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchI do a lot of traveling. It’s in my DNA. Growing up, after breakfast, my mom would look at us and say: Do you want to go visit your great-grandma today? Who happened to live 6 hours away. My mom would call my dad and say that we were driving to St. Paul. We’d drive up, spend the night, and come back…2547nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1413671https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1413671Sun, 22 Dec 2024 17:08:34 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchDo you ever walk through the grocery store and just look at people. Not in a creepy way. But, people-watch. It’s fascinating. Until you realize that only about 25% of the people you see in the grocery store have placed there faith in Jesus Christ. And that people-watching becomes really sad. There are…1875nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1413024https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1413024Sun, 15 Dec 2024 17:30:07 GMTCalvary Bible Church5407nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1407586https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1407586Sun, 08 Dec 2024 17:16:57 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchThe Sample family has a lot of traditions around Christmas. Most fall under the heading of waiting. We would wake up Christmas morning and we couldn’t open our stockings until all the kids were awake. Which required some waiting. Because some of the us kids liked to sleep in. Then, once the parents woke…2266nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1403895https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1403895Sun, 01 Dec 2024 17:33:41 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchHow many of you, in order to truly enjoy a book or a movie, you need to know the end of it? I will try not to hold a grudge against ya’ll. Some people try to tell me what is going to happen, and I don’t want to know. I take that back. There are somethings that I do want to know before hand. Like, the…2538nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1399101https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1399101Sun, 24 Nov 2024 18:38:20 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchThere’s an Andy Griffith episode. Barney once to invest and so he tries to jump into the record making company. An agent for a record company comes into town to make a record of North Carolina blue grass music. Barney keeps floating the term diversify, so that he wants to put his money in many different…1975nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1395681https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1395681Sun, 17 Nov 2024 18:38:06 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchTechnically, I should probably have preached this sermon last week, but I had to finish up the previous passage. It’s now a week and a half since the election. Half of the nation is happy. The other half is not. When I was preparing this sermon, I had no idea what the result would be. I just knew that…2279nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1390976https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1390976Sun, 10 Nov 2024 17:11:19 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchSolomon is discussing wisdom and folly in this passage. We gave the first part of this sermon two weeks ago, and basically covered the main point of the whole thing. We find our joy not in our circumstances and how we can manipulate them, but in the God who loves us. Solomon continues discussing wisdom…2085nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1386511https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1386511Sun, 03 Nov 2024 17:44:53 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchTuesday is election day. I’m not going to stand up here and tell you who to vote for. But, if you want my opinion, I’ve got strong opinions that I’ll tell you about if you ask. Especially for the election for school board in the Neligh-Oakdale district. But, I’m not going there right now. Election day…2234nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1380179https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1380179Sun, 27 Oct 2024 16:20:47 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchSolomon was a prolific author. If he lived today, he would be on the New York Times best seller list, multiple times. People would be lining up to read his next book. His songs would be on the top of the charts, just because of the amount of things he wrote. He spoke three thousand proverbs and his songs…1988nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1377920https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1377920Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:19:49 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchThe first funeral I remember was for my mother’s mom. I was five years old. My grandfather chartered a bus so that we that the family could ride together from Illinois to the funeral and burial in Minnesota. I knew that she had died, but I didn’t fully know what it meant until a few years later, when…2339nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1374441https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1374441Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:22:51 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchHave you ever read quotes of people’s last words? It’s fascinating. Some are funny. Actress Joan Crawford yelled at her housekeeper who was praying as Crawford died. She said: Don’t you dare ask God to help me!” When Wilson Mizner was on his deathbed, a priest said, “I’m sure you want to talk to me.”…2610nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1370562https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1370562Sun, 06 Oct 2024 16:23:46 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchThe biggest problem that people bring up about the existence of God is what is called the problem of evil. Why do bad happen to good people? If God were truly good, he wouldn’t allow bad things to happen to good people. Well, we could take that apart in so many ways. In chapter 4, Solomon pointed to…1624nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1368215https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1368215Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:30:06 GMTCalvary Bible Church2126nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1358839https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1358839Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:21:52 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchSolomon has been discussing all the things in life which are meaningless. Which is pretty much everything. Through the discussion, he begs his readers to turn to God to find satisfaction, peace, joy. But, to turn to God, we need to know him. Jesus himself said, while praying to the Father: Now this is…2148nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1360230https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1360230Sun, 15 Sep 2024 16:11:23 GMTCalvary Bible Church1466nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1355019https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1355019Sun, 08 Sep 2024 16:35:00 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchIt is said that good news doesn’t sell. Only bad news does. Which is why if you turn on the tv or pick up a newspaper, most of the news you will see, a great majority is bad news, about injustice, oppression, turmoil. It’s amazing what happens when you follow the money. But, that’s not the whole story.…1784nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1352625https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1352625Sun, 01 Sep 2024 16:33:07 GMTCalvary Bible Church2396nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1349023https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1349023Sun, 25 Aug 2024 16:24:22 GMTCalvary Bible Church2196nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1344157https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1344157Sun, 18 Aug 2024 16:22:00 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchHave you ever met someone famous? I remember the first time that I got to meet a president. Well, technically, I didn’t meet him, but I got really close to him! George W. Bush came to a rally about 45 miles from where we lived. So, we pack up our lunches and got to the rally location several hours before…2193nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1339262https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1339262Sun, 11 Aug 2024 16:12:13 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchCan you imagine having everything that you could ever want at your fingertips? Growing up, I distinctly remember wishing that I could have things, and then my older siblings would remind me that I was not supposed to be jealous. One Christmas, I was probably around 7 or 8 years old. My oldest sister,…1955nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1333723https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1333723Sun, 28 Jul 2024 16:13:58 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchHave you ever been depressed? Like don’t want to get up out of bed depressed? I have. I remember laying in bed wondering why I should get up. What use are my tasks for the day. What use is what I have been dedicating myself to for the past several years. Those situations are not easy. And there are many…1926nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1330795https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1330795Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:14:12 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchCongratulations! You have almost survived this series on Song of Solomon. Maggie can tell you that I really enjoyed studying this book. My faith has grown through it and my understanding of God’s love for me. I can totally agree with Jonathan Edwards: “The whole book of Canticles [i.e., Song of Solomon]…2203nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1327112https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1327112Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:33:19 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchWell, next week is our last week in Song of Solomon! I have really enjoyed studying this book and pray that it has come alive for you. But, we have two chapters left and two more chances to make Brook squirm and blush. We have seen the whole relationship of the beloved and King Solomon. We first saw…2291nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1323575https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1323575Sun, 07 Jul 2024 16:19:25 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchWhen I sit down with a couple for premarital counseling, I cover a lot of topics, coming back to the concepts of oneness, communication, and expectations a lot. Through the conversations, invariably, we circle around to their family of origin. Probably because I ask them about it. I can be evil like…1891nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1317395https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1317395Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:20:51 GMTCalvary Bible Church50% of all first marriages end in divorce. That’s a sobering statistic. 60% of second marriages, and 73% of third marriages. For those of you who like statistics. The years with the highest risk of divorce is the first two years. You’ve been madly in love. You marry your soul-mate, and then you realize…2444nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1314103https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1314103Sun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchAh, Father’s Day! The day of the year that Fathers are celebrated. Right smack between planting and haying. In fact, some might still be planting and some might have started haying, depending on where one lives and what the rains have been doing. Father’s day is hard because in today’s culture few people…1631nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1310850https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1310850Sun, 09 Jun 2024 16:19:41 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchCongratulations! After this week, we are halfway done with our study of Song of Solomon. It’s amazing how fast this book goes! Though Brook Curtiss wishes that it would go faster. We have seen the beloved deeply in love with King Solomon, because of his character, yearning to consummate her love with…2132nohttps://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1307050https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/1307050Sun, 02 Jun 2024 16:37:09 GMTCalvary Bible ChurchI have officiated ten weddings. In the grand scheme of things, that’s really not many. But, I have enjoyed officiating each one of them. Each one of them was different. Each one had challenges. Each one had a lot of joys. Each one was filled with anticipation of what was next. Weddings are a lot of fun.…1927no