Mesa Palms Seventh-day Adventist Church - Another Elijah

Adventist Podcast Network · Sep 5, 2026 · 47m · transcript

Sermon Summary:

Pastor Dale Tunnell’s sermon focuses on Zechariah and the promised birth of John the Baptist in Luke 1. While serving in the sanctuary, Zechariah is startled by an angel who tells him that a prayer he and Elizabeth had prayed many years earlier has been heard: they will have a son named John. Zechariah struggles to believe this because both he and Elizabeth are old, even though, as a priest, he knows the biblical stories of God accomplishing seemingly impossible things. The sermon uses his reaction to challenge us to consider whether we sometimes place our own limitations on…