God prepares us for his call by allowing us to endure personal failure.
Text: Luke 5:1-11A 200-year-old church was getting ready for its anniversary celebration when calamity struck: the bell ringer was called out of […]
Text: 1 Chronicles 4:9-10aThis is Christmas Eve. Even though there is no command in the New Testament to celebrate Christmas, we happily join […]
Text: Hebrews 6:18-20This sermon is about one question and one question only: How do you come back to God? In putting the […]
Text: I Samuel 30One of the first prayers I learned to pray was my bedtime prayer. I do not remember how old I […]
Text: Hebrews 11:20-22Hope in God’s provision in a new millennium. God gives us exactly what we need for our journey ahead: iron shoes instead of silk slippers, because the road is hard, the way difficult, the path sometimes treacherous. God does not give his strength in advance, only when needed. Each day you will have what you need.
Text: Deuteronomy 33:25While everything is moving faster and getting more complicated, there are three things that will never change: 1) God’s love; 2) God’s word; and 3) God’s purposes. Change is inevitable in our lives but when we’re anchored to the God who does not change, we can manage whatever comes our way.
Text: Mal. 3:6; Mt. 5:24“Every experience God gives us, every person he puts in our lives, is the perfect preparation for the future that […]
Text: Psalm 100:5“The life of a Christian is a series of miracles.” So said Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the great British preacher of […]
Text: Philippians 1:6The year was 1866, and in a log cabin in the little town of Franklin, Kentucky, Thomas Obadiah Chisholm was […]
Text: Lamentations 3:22-23