Sermons with Insight Quotes

“Our wills are in bondage to sin, and yet we act as though we don't even know it. Oh, we acknowledge that we fall short; we admit that we make mistakes; we know that we're not perfect. But we tend to assume —don't we?— that we're pretty much on the right track and only slip off from time to time.”
― Roland Zimany, Sermons with Insight

“I don't know how or when the Holy Spirit works, but I am fairly certain that when the transforming power of God comes to us, it stays with us only through 100% commitment on our part and only with a serious resolve to give up our previous way of life.”
― Roland Zimany, Sermons with Insight

“The Bible talks about the earth as being flat, but we know that it's round. So what had been understood literally must now be interpreted figuratively: We can no longer talk about the "ends of the earth" with the thought that we could actually get to a place where we could fall off the earth, because we had reached its end. We know, now, that disease comes from bacteria and viruses, not from demons.”
― Roland Zimany, Sermons with Insight

“God can be at work even through us. Which is why, if society is to improve, if laws are to be obeyed, if people are to be brought into the Church, if the world's economy is to be made more fair, if appropriate steps are to be taken to prevent global warming and the drowning of our coastal cities and towns, it must be done by people. And not necessarily only by other people”
― Roland Zimany, Sermons with Insight

“A further point of the story is that Christ does not come only in our moments of weakness and need. He is present also at our high points. He provides the best at a wedding feast because he is Lord of all of life. Indeed, if we do not experience his presence in our joy, we should not expect to find him in our sorrow. Faith in God is really a relationship with God, and meaningful relationships are not simply occasional ones”
― Roland Zimany, Sermons with Insight

“You see, among the Jews of Jesus' day, Jesus was called "Master," or "Rabbi," or "Rabboni." He wasn't called "Lord." "Lord" was a title used by Greeks, and it was a popular title applied to Jesus when Christianity spread out of Palestine into Greek-speaking areas. But it wasn't a title that people who actually knew Jesus called him. So when you see Jesus being called "Lord" in the Gospels, that is a clue that that passage reflects the practices of the early Christian Church and does not come from Jesus's own time. (In case you didn't realize it, the Gospels were not written by people who took notes while the events of Jesus' life were taking place…”
― Roland Zimany, Sermons with Insight

“Here was a person who made the love of God real and near, and who brought grace to those who thought they were so far beyond the reach of God that they were beyond hope. To them and to trillions of his subsequent followers, he brought hope: surely hope that the unexpectedly good could occur and that there was a power at work in the world that could transform lives and bring people into a right relationship with God the heavenly Father.”
― Roland Zimany, Sermons with Insight

“Have our lives been changed by the transforming power of the Holy Spirit, so that we can love, and give, and naturally want to do God's will at all times and in all situations? The God who can pull down the powerful and raise up the lowly can do that, you know. Radical transformation is God's specialty”
― Roland Zimany, Sermons with Insight