This sermon walks through Zechariah’s shepherd allegory, a good shepherd offered and refused, valued at a slave’s price, and replaced by one who preys on the flock instead of protecting it. It’s an uncomfortable passage that asks what we’re willing to pay for the shepherds God gives us, and points ahead to Jesus, the shepherd who never deserts.
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The people of Zechariah’s day were living in the wreckage of exile, waiting on promises that seemed slow to arrive. This sermon walks through Zechariah 9-10’s vision of a coming king, a restored people, and a God who strengthens what was broken, s...
The people ask whether they still need to keep the mourning fasts now that the temple is being rebuilt. God’s answer moves past the ritual to the heart behind it, and then promises a day when those fasts become feasts. What God wants is not obliga...
God’s people had been staring at a temple foundation for years with nothing to show for it, and God answers their discouragement not with a bigger effort but with his Spirit. Across Zechariah 4 through 6 the Spirit empowers the builder, clears the...
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