Today's Sermon:

The Once and Coming King

I. The Birth of the King- Vs. 6

II. The Names of the King- Vs. 6

A. Wonderful Counselor

B. Mighty God

C. Everlasting Father

D. Prince of Peace

III. The Reign of the King- Vs. 6-7

Our “religious impulses, once anchored and tamed by Christianity, find expression in various political cults…They are filling the void that Christianity once owned, without any of the wisdom and culture and restraint that Christianity once provided…We’re mistaken if we believe that the collapse of Christianity in America has led to a decline in religion. It has merely led to religious impulses being expressed by political cults…and their religious politics can brook no compromise.”-Matthew Sullivan

“It is Christianity that came to champion the individual conscience against the collective, which paved the way for individual rights. It is in Christianity that the seeds of Western religious toleration were first sown. Christianity is the only monotheism that seeks no sway over Caesar, that is content with the ultimate truth over the immediate satisfaction of power. It was Christianity that gave us successive social movements…The question we face in contemporary times is whether a political system built upon such a religion can endure when belief in that religion has become a shadow.”-Matthew Sullivan