I was twenty-five years old and fresh out of seminary when I became the pastor of a small church in […]
Text: Romans 15:5-7Lord, don’t you care – that my child is sick, my marriage is falling apart, I have no money, I feel so alone? All of us have moments when life tumbles in around us, when we feel utterly alone and forgotten by God. In those moments we have a choice to make.
Text: Mark 4:35-41“Christmas is full of surprises.” Somewhere in my reading this week I ran across that sentence. While I am sure […]
Text: Luke 2:12“If I had not come” (John 15:22). “But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of […]
Text: John 15:22; Galatians 4:4Jesus stands at the end of life’s road for all of us. In the end there can be no middle ground.
Text: Matthew 2:1-6Let’s begin with a little quiz. What well-known television actor said the following? “To me the greatest Latin lover in […]
Text: Matthew 19:6The only reasonable thing to do is to offer your body to God.
Text: Romans 12:1When I was a teenager in Alabama, I spent a week at a Methodist church camp. This was during the […]
Text: Romans 11:28-29No matter how hopeless the situation looks, God has not lost the battle. In the end we’re going to come out on the winning side.
Text: Romans 11:1-10I’d like to talk to you about who goes to heaven. We all know that the Bible teaches the reality […]
Text: Romans 10:1-4