Sermon Series:Psalms for the Summer

I won’t ask for a show of hands but I imagine that most of us have had conversations with friends or co-workers or even family members-conversations in which we were challenged to authenticate our faith…times we were told to somehow VERIFY the existence of the God we claim to know and serve. Perhaps people have […]

Guest Speaker – Dr. Dale Smith Chicago Historical Society & Moody Church. Dwight L. Moody — boys and girls — aristocratic church — church board — take a month “Did you follow our suggestions?” — “And what did the Lord say?” “He told me not to feel bad about it, because he has been trying […]

1 – O Lord, You have searched me and You know me. 2 – You know when I sit and when I rise; You perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 – You discern my going out and my lying down; You are familiar with all my ways. 4 – Before a word is on my […]

One day last summer Daniel and I decided to go for a long jog together down the Needwood trail heading toward the D.C. line. There had been thunderstorms that morning but they had dumped their rain and moved on and the heat of the day had dissipated so we felt it was a great time […]

This past week I was channel surfing and came upon the last few moments of one of my favorite movies-the old Civil War epic, Shenandoah. If you’ve seen it then you know that it’s the story of a successful Virginia farmer and rancher, played by Jimmy Stewart, who has six sons. Well, Stewart’s character stubbornly […]