Posts by Doug Douma

Sermon for Sunday, November 29th, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Deu 19:15-21 ESV] 15 “A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be established. 16…

Sermon for Sunday, November 22nd, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 6:2-3 ESV] 2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make…

Sermon for Sunday, November 15th, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Pro 22:1-6 ESV] 1 A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. 2 The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the Maker of them…

Sermon for Wedding of Eric and Michelle, Saturday, November 14th, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Scripture reading: [Exo 20:2 ESV] 2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land…

Sermon for Sunday, November 8th, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Job 19:23-27 ESV] 23 “Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! 24 Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! 25 For I…

Sermon for Sunday, November 1st, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Dan 12:1-4 ESV] 1 “At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was…

Sermon for Sunday, October 25th, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Isa 53:9-12 ESV] 9 And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it was the…

Here is a picture of the crew that came on our 5 mile Appalachian Trail hike.

Sermon for Sunday, October 18th, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Isa 53:3-6 ESV] 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4…

[A July 1883 sermon of Rev. Henry Frost Wadsworth, pastor of First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY. Given five months prior to his retirement.] Philippians 3:8 Yea doubtless and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. The apostle opens this chapter by showing the difference between legal righteousness and spiritual…

Sermon for Sunday, October 11th, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Psa 47:1-9 ESV] 1 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy! 2 For the LORD, the Most High, is to be feared, a…

Sermon for Sunday, October 4th, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Deu 10:12-17 ESV] 12 “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God…