Posts by Doug Douma (Page 9)

Sermon for Sunday, February 23rd, 2025 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament Reading: [Deu 24:1-4 ESV] 1 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of…

Sermon for Sunday, February 16th, 2025 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament Reading: [Deu 22:22-24 ESV] 22 “If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil…

Sermon for Sunday, February 9th, 2025 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament Reading: [Psa 40:6-17 ESV] 6 In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required. 7 Then I said,…

Sermon for Sunday Evening, February 2nd, 2025 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) [Rom 9:14-24 ESV] 14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! 15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on…

Sermon for Sunday, February 2nd, 2025 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament Reading: [Isa 60:1-3 ESV] 1 Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. 2 For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but…

Sermon for Sunday, January 26, 2025 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament Reading: [Psalm 120:1-7 ESV] 1 A Song of Ascents. In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me. 2 Deliver me, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. 3 What shall be given to…

Sermon for Sunday, January 19, 2025 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament Reading: [Isaiah 61:1-4 ESV] 1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim…

Sermon for Sunday, January 12, 2025 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Pastoral Prayer: Our Father in heaven Glorious things of you are spoken. The heavens declare your glory. Your mercies are new every day. You are our light and our salvation. You are steadfast love and abundant…

Sermon for Sunday, January 5, 2025 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament Reading: [Isaiah 66:1-2 ESV] 1 Thus says the LORD: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? 2 All…

Sermon for Sunday, December 22, 2024 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Hosea 11:1-12 ESV] 1 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. 2 The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and…

Sermon for Sunday, December 15, 2024 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Numbers 24:15-19 ESV] 15 And he took up his discourse and said, “The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened, 16 the oracle of him who hears…

Sermon for Sunday, December 8, 2024 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Psalm 103:1-5 ESV] 1 Of David. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! 2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, 3 who forgives all…