Sermons

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 […]

Leo Tolstoy wrote what the Encyclopedia Britannica describes as “one of the two or three greatest novels in world literature”-War and Peace. But he also wrote a book in 1879 called A Confession, which tells the story of his search for meaning and purpose in life. Rejecting Christianity as a child, Tolstoy left his university […]

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 […]

1 Corinthians 12 12 – The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. 13 – For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body-whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free-and we were […]

I think that unfortunately most of us are familiar with MURPHY’S LAWS-those humorous lists of things that, according to some guy named Murphy, can and do go wrong in life. For example: The other line at COSTCO always moves faster than the one you are in. The chance of the bread falling with the peanut […]

12 – But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 – If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 – And if Christ has not been raised, […]

John 19:1-7 1 – Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged. 2 – The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head. They clothed Him in a purple robe 3 – and went up to Him again and again, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they struck Him […]