Sermons

In the 1950’s, a professor at Johns Hopkins University named Curt Richter conducted a series of experiments—and like many researchers he used rats as his test subjects. First, Richter took a dozen DOMESTICATED rats, put them into huge jars of water—and basically watched them drown. I know this sounds cruel—but he was trying to discover […]

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. 4 – They have no struggles; their bodies are healthy and strong. […]

As you know my mom went to be with the Lord in July—and for the past couple months my siblings and I have been going through her house to get it ready to sell. If you’ve buried a parent then you know what it’s like to go through all the piles of pictures. Those stacks […]

An Alien Environment Today we explore the holiness of God and how it relates to us.  For many of us we approach holiness the way we approach a big, tangled ball of yarn.  We’d like to unravel it and get the knots out, but it’s a lot easier to simply cut it out and move […]

Gerald Gardner was a TV writer, best known for writing the scripts for two of my favorite TV shows when I was growing up—The Monkees and Get Smart. In 1962, Gardner got the idea of taking news photos of U.S. Presidents and adding humorous dialog in the form of speech bubbles that supposedly showed what they were saying […]

I want us to begin this morning by talking about produce goodness. And let’s start with watermelons. How do you know if a WATERMELON is good? Well, first you pick it up. If it’s good—if it’s ripe—it should feel heavy for its size. You may have to compare a few of the same size—but the […]

We just had a great vacation. After a few days spent getting work done at my mom’s house, Sue and I spent a week at one of our favorite places: Ocean Isle Beach—with our children and grand-children. As you can see in this picture, we had an INCREDIBLE time. Our daily schedule was pretty much […]

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 […]

As I said last Sunday, 24 of us had a great experience attending the Tony Evans conference that was held at THE COVE last week. I will organize another trip next year—but don’t wait on us. If you get a chance to go to THE COVE to hear one of the speakers they have—DO. Sue […]