Christ’s followers must all spend some time by the drying brook to prepare us for greater work God has for us later. It may be the drying brook of popularity, or the drying brook of failing health or a sick loved one or a failing career, or the drying brook of a friendship that is slowly fading away. God wants to teach us not to trust in his gifts, but in himself. He wants to drain us of self, as he drained the apostles by ten days of waiting before Pentecost.
Text: 1 Kings 17:2-7It’s time to pray, “Lord do things I’m not used to.”
Text: 1 Kings 17:1Our greatest victories and worst defeats often go hand in hand.
Text: 1 Kings 19:1-9God must bring us to the end of ourselves so that we learn it’s all about him and not about us.
Text: 1 Kings 17:17-24A long time ago in the history of our church, long before I became the pastor, someone wrote a document […]
Text: Hebrews 13:20-21When was the last time you played with modeling clay? It may have been a while unless you have a […]
Text: Acts 16:6-10The best way not to lose the Holy Spirit in our midst is to watch and pray that it might not happen. Take nothing for granted.
Text: Psalms 51:11We come this morning to the end of our series on I Peter. This is the 24th and final message. […]
Text: 1 Peter 5In early March I preached on “Are You Prepared to Suffer for Christ?” from I Peter 3:13-17. After the final […]
Text: 1 Peter 5:1-4I begin with the words of British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, from an interview with William F. Buckley: “As an old […]
Text: 1 Peter 4:12-19