Three Ways to Praise Unsearchable Greatness (Psalm 145:3-6)
Jim Osman continues in Psalm 145 with a picture of a God whose greatness cannot be searched out, known truly but never exhaustively, in any single attribute. He grounds that idea in Grudem's point that believers will never fully understand even one thing about God, not just God a ...Show more
Great Praise For A Great King (Psalm 145:1-3)
Jim Osman opens a new mini-series on the Psalms with Psalm 145, a psalm he calls the perfect place to begin. He shows how this psalm stands as a capstone to David's writing, the last psalm attributed to David and the final acrostic psalm in the Psalter, working through the Hebrew ...Show more
Reintroducing the Psalms (Psalm 1 & 2)
What is the value of a book most modern Christians skip over on their way to the New Testament? Pastor Jim Osman makes the case for the Psalms in this introduction to a short new series, an exposition of Psalm 1 and Psalm 2.Before turning to the text, Osman lays out why the Psalm ...Show more
Jesus the King of Glory - Psalm 24
Who is worthy to stand in the presence of a holy God? Psalm 24 asks that question directly, and this sermon traces the answer all the way to the ascended Christ.A guest preacher walks through Psalm 24 as the third psalm in a trio that moves from priest, in Psalm 22, to prophet, i ...Show more
A Desert Baptism (Acts 8:25-39)
An Ethiopian official reading Isaiah on a desert road becomes the occasion for one of the clearest gospel conversations in the book of Acts. Pastor Jim Osman preaches this account as the message for the church's annual baptism service, an exposition of Acts 8:25-39.Osman traces h ...Show more