Sermon Archive

Heaven and Hell Thirst - The Thirsty Jesus

By: Dr. Bob Petterson and Pastor Trent Casto

Feb 05, 2012

In a horrifying parable, our Lord paints a graphic word picture of the rich man who anguishes in hell, longing for a single drop of water to be placed on his swollen tongue. Jesus cried out from the cross, “I thirst!” Heaven and hell intersects at the point of thirst. When Jesus saw an adulterous woman at a well in Samaria, thirst met thirst. He thirsts for her redemption. She thirsts for meaning and fulfillment. The world is full of thirsty people. They live in gutters and gated communities. We possess what Jesus offered at the well: living water. We must take it out of the doors and bring it to a parched world. It is giving drink to the thirsty that will satisfy the King of glory.

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Glory With an Aching Belly - The Hungry Jesus

By: Dr. Bob Petterson

Jan 29, 2012

The ancient Greek playwright, Aristophanes wrote, “Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.” If we ignore the hungry, we are not friends of Jesus. When he was at his hungriest, the Enemy of our Soul came to tempt him. Just as Satan used Adam and Eve’s hunger as the bait to destroy them, he uses the insatiable physical, emotional, and spiritual hunger of Adam’s children to entice them to feast on the emptiness that kills. But we have the bread of heaven. If we do not open wide the doors and invite the hungry to feast with us, or go out those doors to find and feed the hungry—then we have not shown mercy to them or the King of glory.

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