Sermons & Devotionals by Richard E. Bieber

For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. When Christ appears then you will appear with him in glory. Until then, your life is hid with Christ in God. And only when our lives are hid, covered, so that... Read More

Who ever heard of a stale revival? One of the primary marks of a revival is its life, its immediacy. Suddenly everybody is conscious that God is among us. Jesus, the Crucified, is risen and alive in our midst! His word is convicting our hearts, bringing us to repentance and breaking chains that have... Read More

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I ha... Read More

The longer we live… …and the more we find ourselves having to be in touch with the world as it is, the more we begin to appreciate the words of the hymn, "What A Friend We Have In Jesus." As so many whom we regarded as our friends let us down, what a comfort to discover that there is One who is alwa... Read More

……how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. Hebrews 9 When Jesus came on the scene the people noticed a tremendous difference between what he was doing and the work o... Read More

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same nature, that through death he might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage. Hebrews 2:14-15 Imagine tha... Read More

"....but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." John 4:14 Revival has often been described as an atmosphere. When­ever there is a revival that's truly coming from the Spiri... Read More

Read: Isaiah 8:11-15 We notice that scripture says almost nothing about our Lord's childhood. We are told of His birth, His bar mitzvah, then nothing more until He is thirty years of age. Those first thirty years of His life are hidden in the hand of God. All we need to know about them is that, ''He... Read More

Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good tidings; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good tidings, lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, "Behold your God!" Behold, the Lord God comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him,... Read More

Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (which mea... Read More

Have you ever thought to yourself, "I wish God would show me what he wants me to do!"? "I wish he'd make it clear!" If you're young, it's, "I wish God would show me what I'm supposed to do with my life." If you're an adult, out there in the thick of the rat race it's, "I wish God would show me how h... Read More

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of t... Read More

The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him that is weary. Morning by morning he wakens, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. Isaiah 50 Surely if we are following Jesus, our tongue is now ordained as an instrument in his s... Read More

If the Lord delays his coming a bit longer there will come a moment in each of our lives when the fragile cord which holds us to this world of flesh and blood will snap ... and we will say to ourselves with complete certainty,­ "Now I'm going to die." For some it will be a moment of great peace. For... Read More

Then comes the end, when he delivers the king­dom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. I Corinthians 15:24-26 Most of us feel somewhat uncomfortable pic... Read More

Read: Matthew 7:15-23 In this passage the Lord not only shows us how we can tell the difference between false prophets and true ones, but how He tells the difference between true disciples and phonies. He doesn't need a computer. And when the time comes for us to give an answer for what we did with ... Read More

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see. The man who wrote those words had blood on his hands, as the captain of a slave ship---until he had an encounter with Grace. Until he found himself in the presence of God. Whe... Read More

Read: I Corinthians 1:4-9 Matthew 16:13-23 Scripture says that Abraham, all his life, lived in tents, kept moving, never settled down, because he looked forward to a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. We are Abraham's descendants in the Spirit, and we do the same. God has gi... Read More

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let all people know your forbearance. The Lord is near. Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding... Read More

- We thank God and praise God for an event which brought hope back to this world. - We even now hold fellowship with the One whose birth we celebrate. Reading Christmas scriptures and singing Christmas songs would mean very little if Jesus himself could not draw near to us even now, and speak to us ... Read More