Lucas Dourado RUF Sermons

God's nearness, grace, and faithfulness.

God's victory on behalf of His people.

Whispers of God's steadfast love in the midst of tragedy and suffering.

The decline of God's people shows the need for a moral authority.

God's command to be strong and courageous, with assurance of His presence, as we go where He calls.

The goodness, demand, and exclusivity of the law of God.

Preparation in the wilderness.

How can God's people live with Him and extend His Kingdom?

God saves His people

Sin's entrance into the world, its effects, and God's plan to destroy it forever.

Relating to God in the midst of disappointment, suffering, and sadness.

The movements of Psalm 130 from the depths to hope.

Hope in the darkness.

What does faithfulness look like in God's Kingdom?

The treasure of the Kingdom

Jesus's parable about the openness of the Kingdom of God to outsiders

How not to be a jerk!

Prayer

Sin as self-deception and God's solution to our self-deception.

God's love for the lost older brother

Jesus's warning about greed and how to be rich toward God.

Lostness and God's love for the lost

The call to neighbor love and the way to love your neighbor.

We look at where great love comes from.

The Resurrection of the Body and the Life Everlasting

Exploring the question of what forgiveness does.

The Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints

Jesus tells His disciples about the Holy Spirit

The good news of judgment day.

Jesus' ascension and session at the right hand of the Father

Jesus is alive, and what that means for His people and His world.

Jesus's suffering and death on behalf of sinners

The significance of Jesus's virgin birth

We look at Jesus as the Christ, the second person of the trinity, the Lord.

We begin our series on the Apostles' Creed thinking through who God the Father is and what He's like, and what that means for us.

As Jesus begins to wrap up the Sermon on the Mount, He leaves us with two choices.

Jesus gives the bottom line: He is the Solid Rock.

Jesus teaches on the folly of judging others.

Jesus warns His disciples about putting their trust in treasures on earth and instead urges them to seek first His Kingdom.

Jesus teaches His disciples how to pray.

Jesus's most challenging teaching in the sermon on the mount about active love for enemies.

Jesus continue to show the depth of the law by discussing divorce and oaths.

As he continues his discussion about the heart, Jesus addresses the topic of lust.

Jesus explains that He is all about the law, and gives the example of anger and murder to explain what He means.

Jesus tells the disciples' their purpose in living out the life of the Kingdom, that others will come to know God and glorify Him.

The second half of Jesus's countercultural beatitudes.

Jesus begins the Sermon on the Mount with his countercultural beatitudes.

We get a big picture of the Kingdom of God through Jesus's parable of the great banquet.

Paul lays out the implications of the gospel

Paul discusses the main implication of the gospel: unity.