Sermons

One night a little over a hundred years ago, a woman—she was a Christ-follower—this woman couldn’t sleep. It was well past her usual bedtime, but she couldn’t rest—because some unexplainable reason she felt overwhelmed with fear. At that same precise moment, her husband, Colonel Archibald Gracie, was about 400 miles to the east crossing the […]

How many of you have heard the story of George Washington and the cherry tree? Tell the truth now! Sure, we all have—and in case you’ve forgotten it, the pun I just made is from a story about when Washington was six years old he received a hatchet as a gift. He tried it out […]

For thousands of years people have been eating bread—and during those multiple millennias a wide variety of types of this staple food have developed. For example, there’s Arepa bread which is popular in Venezuala and Columbia. As you can see, it flat and round. It can be baked, fried or cooked on a charcoal grill, […]

This week I did a little “google research” on campaign promises—things people who wanted to become President—people who wanted to be in charge—said they would do if they were elected. For example, in 1928 at the height of the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover said if he were in charge of the country there would be […]

Shasta’s encounter with the Lion – Aslan, the King of kings – did not so much change his circumstances as it did his perspective on them.  He no longer felt sorry for himself and looked at his misfortunes in a different light.  This is a beautiful picture of what happens when we encounter God through prayer.  Encountering God through prayer changes us. 

Have you ever seen a son that looked just like his father—a chip off the old block—the spitting image? If you haven’t, you’re about to because I want us to look at some pictures of some famous dads alongside their look-alike sons. This is Ice Cube and his son OMG—or is that Ice Cube on […]

At the risk of your nodding off—I want to begin by asking each of you to close your eyes. I’m borrowing an idea from Bill Hybels and I want you to try and imagine you are at your favorite vacation place. Take yourself there in your mind. Are you there? Good!  If you feel comfortable […]

Have you ever seen high jumpers compete at a track and field event? It’s amazing to watch.  These athletes take four or five carefully-planned steps and then launch their bodies over a bar—head first—back down. I don’t know how they do it—but these guys are able to control every muscle in their body independently—consciously moving […]

One of my favorite movies—is BRAVEHEART—where Mel Gibson stars as a 13th century Scottish commoner named William Wallace. Are there any other BRAVEHEART fans present? If you’ve seen the film then you know that it’s based on the true story of how William Wallace led his country to freedom from an oppressive English rule. Fueled […]

Twenty years ago, the king of the video rental industry was a company called Blockbuster. Back then, if your family craved a movie night, someone would get in the car and drive to one of Blockbuster’s 9,000 stores, stroll through rows of VHS-tape-lined shelves—and hand a membership card to a blue-clad employee. You had to […]