Sermon Series:Connecting With People of the Bible

Do you ever grin—or wince—when you hear the names that some celebrities give to their newborns? They seem to have a real knack when it comes to “creative” baby naming. For example, do you remember when Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin made headlines after naming their daughter “Apple?” Before that, Demi Moore and Bruce Willis gave […]

1 – Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.  2 – So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the […]

Our “Connecting with People of the Bible” series brings us to the Apostle Thomas.  We are well aware of Thomas’ reputation as a doubter, but we fail to see our own tendencies to doubt.  Looking at Thomas more holistically will remind us that a faith-filled response to Jesus brings us new life.

When I was a kid—back in the days when they only cost twelve cents, I loved comic books. I remember there was an AD like this on the back of most issues. As you can see, it challenged 97 lb weaklings like myself by claiming we could have a physique like Charles Atlas—and the super-human […]

I just finished reading a great book about a chapter in WWII history that I had not heard of before. Apparently, I’m not alone in that because the title of the book is, The Forgotten 500. It chronicles one of the greatest rescue and escape stories ever—but until recently it was virtually unknown—hardly anyone had […]

In the early 1980s a very wealthy married couple got into an argument. Things got heated—escalating to the point that they both started acting like fools. Their fight started when the husband cancelled a vacation—saying he had to work. The wife expressed her “disappointment” by pouring bicarbonate soda into her husband’s fish tank, killing his […]