Sermons

If there was one thing the disciples had learned in their three years of training, it was that they needed Jesus and were lost without him. Two thousand years later, that fact hasn’t changed. We are lost without Jesus, because Jesus is still the source for life. As we have investigated some of Jesus’ “I am” statements in our Advent series, “What Child is this?” we come to one that is perhaps the most well-known – and nowadays even infamous – of them all.

Food is a big deal in our culture. According to the USDA, between ages twenty and fifty the average person spends about 28,000 hours eating. That’s over three years—more than ten percent! If you doubt that statistic think about it—our daily schedules are often planned around mealtimes. Business deals are made by people who “do” lunch […]

Two days ago one of the most talked about movies EVER premiered—Star Wars VII – The Force Awakens. How many of you have seen it? I’m trying not to covet! One thing that if find interesting is that this seventh installment in the Star Wars saga takes place 30 years after the events of its […]

Have you ever watched the news—as it showed people caught in a flash flood or involved in a huge car wreck—or running from a burning home—and wondered how YOU would handle that situation? I mean: Would you know how to treat a snake bite while on a hike? If you were lost in the woods […]

William Dix was a successful insurance salesman who lived in Glascow, Scotland in the last part of the 19th century.  When he was only 29, Dix was stricken with a near fatal illness that left him confined to his bed for an extended period of time.  These long bed-bound months caused him to fall into […]

1 – Give thanks to Yahweh, call on His name; proclaim His deeds among the peoples. 2 – Sing to Him, sing praise to Him; tell about all His wonderful works! 3 – Honor His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek Yahweh rejoice. 4 – Search for the Lord and for His strength; seek […]

Last Sunday as I drove back from our state convention in Ocean City I passed the time by listening to a message Bill Hybels delivered at this year’s Leadership Summit. In part of the talk Hybels invited his hearers to compare two purchases made by his late father. The FIRST happened when Hybels was a […]

1 -Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. 2 – But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold. 3 – For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 13 – Surely in vain have I kept my […]

This week I decided to make a list of things that DON’T go together and I thought it would be good to begin my message by sharing my list with you. So here it is. Here are things that I think DON’T go together: Hair dryers and bath tubs Vegetable flavoring and Ice Cream Sumo […]

This week I tried to get a GOOGLE WALLET card for my mom.  I found the website and looked for instructions as to how to get it such that it would work with her bank account. After reading through web page after web page without finding any help I looked where I often looked when […]