Sermons

h2>Introduction: I don’t know if you’ve been counting, but this is the THIRD in a SERIES of sermons designed to provide help for coping with an enemy we all face these days known as STRESS. My plan has been for each message in the series to focus on what the Bible has to say about […]

Like most pastors, I’m always reading-books to help me with sermon prep-books dealing with deacon training-books for Wednesday night studies-books for my own personal spiritual growth-and always at least one book for just plain fun. One of my most recent “fun reads” was John Grisham’s novel, King of Torts. If you’ve read it then you […]

Matthew 5:16 – “Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and praise your Father in heaven.” Ephesians 2:10 – “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Colossians 3:23 – “Whatever you do, work at […]

In my opinion, one of the most interesting episodes of the original Star Trek series was the one in which Captain Kirk and his crew landed on a planet where they discovered a large sculpture of sorts standing in the middle of the ruins of an ancient city. It was shaped like a huge lop-sided […]

18 – Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19 – Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, Who is in you, Whom you have received from God? You are not […]

On March 4, 1841, William Henry Harrison, the 9th President of the United States, delivered the longest inaugural speech on record. It contained over 9,000 words-for your information, that’s about five or six Sunday sermons! Now, President Harrison must have been VERY impressed with his prepared comments that day because, in spite of the fact […]

I don’t know about you but I hate political campaign speeches. Listening to them seems like such a waste of time, because most politicians-especially those who are running for office-can talk for hours and not say anything of substance. Their speeches are usually just so much hot air. I remember reading somewhere that Chicago is […]

Have you ever felt lonely? I mean REALLY lonely because, for some reason or other, you were cut off-totally separated-from your loved ones? Maybe you felt this way as a child the first time you went off to camp or as a teenager when you left home and moved into the freshman dorm your first […]

As most of you know, a few weeks ago Sue and I attended the National Pastor’s Convention in San Diego, California. Since we would be flying on the same plane Sue told me I would have to prepare our will before we left-in fact she said she wouldn’t attend the convention with me unless I […]

I became a Christian when I was seven years old and this morning I’d like to tell you how I came to make that all important decision. Now, as most of you know, I’m a P.K., which stands for what? Right- “Preacher’s Kid.” I’m the “son of a preacher man.” My father was a pastor […]