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The Stones Would Cry Out

Pastor Reid Hankins — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:04 +0000

Sermon preached on Luke 19:28-44 by Rev. W. Reid Hankins during the Morning Service at Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) on 03/28/2010 in Novato, CA.

Manuscript: The Stones Would Cry Out

The King of Glory Shall Come In

Pastor Reid Hankins — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:07:36 +0000

Join us as we examine Psalm 24, a song of the great advent of God to his people, in light of Palm Sunday and the work of Jesus Christ.

Passage: Psalm 24
Author: Rev. W. Reid Hankins, M.Div.
Sermon originally preached during the Morning Service at Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) on 04/04/2009 in Novato, CA.

Manuscript: The King of Glory Shall Come In

The Lord Has Need of It

Pastor Reid Hankins — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:50:22 +0000

Jesus is my Lord and Savior! Amen? Is that true for you? To call Jesus your Lord and Savior is to use some very common titles for Jesus. Other than the title of Christ, I don’t know of any more common titles that we use to describe Jesus. He is rightly called our Lord and Savior. These titles describe who he is and what he has done for us. He is our Lord – the king of kings; the God-man who is the ruler of the heavens and the earth. And he is our savior – the one who saved us from eternal damnation through his life, death, and resurrection. Jesus is indeed the Lord and Savior, and I hope that you too affirm this.

These are essentially the same titles that are given to Jesus here in our passage as well. And yet back then, just like today, people can utter these words without really understanding them. Today, calling Jesus your Lord and Savior can become cliché. We can utter those words in vain because we don’t really understand them and their importance. It’s very appropriate to confess Jesus as your Lord and Savior, but he wants us to really understand and mean that confession. The same is true with this Palm Sunday passage. All sorts of people were there making these praises over Jesus. But did they really understand what they meant? Scripture shows that for the most part they did not.

And yet Jesus had a plan.

Passage: Mark 11:1-11
Author: Rev. W. Reid Hankins, M.Div.
Sermon originally preached during the Morning Service at Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) on 10/19/2008 in Novato, CA.

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O Lord, Save Us! – A Palm Sunday Sermon

Pastor Reid Hankins — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:35:56 +0000

Our sermon for today is on Psalm 118, which was the psalm that was taken up on the lips of the Jews and applied to Jesus during the Triumphal Entry on Palm Sunday. In our reading from Matthew we saw that the crowd of Jews exclaimed, “Hosanna,” meaning, “save” or “save now”. They exclaimed “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD! Hosanna in the highest!” And so as we celebrate Palm Sunday today, and remember the start of what is often called the Passion Week or the Holy Week, it is quite fitting that we consider this psalm today. This psalm was in the back of the minds of those who cried out to Jesus on that Palm Sunday some 2000 years ago. And so as we look at this psalm, we’ll learn a little bit more about what may have been in the mind of those Jews who welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem on the first Palm Sunday. But more importantly, as we analyze this psalm and understand its meaning, we’ll see how it ultimately finds its fulfillment in Christ and the cross.

Passage: Psalm 118
Author: Rev. W. Reid Hankins, M.Div.
Sermon originally preached during the Morning Service at Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) on 03/16/2008 in Novato, CA.
Other Scripture Readings: Matthew 21:1-17; 1 Peter 2:1-10

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