Peter, Do You Feel Blessed?

Monday, May 5th, 2008

God gave you and me, as Christians, some incredible promises. Because we were baptized into Christ, God promised that He would forgive and forget all of our sins (Hebrews 8:12). God promised if we maintain faith in Christ, maintain our commitment to live in God's ways, and maintain a heart ...

The Agony of Change Part Three

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Perhaps among the most difficult spiritual analysis to make is the analysis of the anatomy of faith. What is faith? Most Christians are more proficient at telling people what faith is not than they are at telling people what faith is. I often fear, with all of us, our concept ...

The Agony of Change

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

I almost named this series, The Agony of Failed Expectations. Among us as a church, things are not at all what we expected them to be. If fifty years ago people knew for a fact that the 2000's would begin with: (1) more financial worth in buildings, parking lots, and ...

The Lord Knows What he is doing

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Acts 8:1-3 8:1 And Saul was consenting to his death. And on that day a great persecution arose against the church in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the region of Judea and Sama'ria, except the apostles. 8:2 Devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him. 8:3 But ...

The Exodus and the Cross

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Every life, without exception, lives through dark hours. No one escapes days when all circumstances say the worst is inevitable. We all experience times when we are overwhelmed with setbacks, losing struggles, and painful realities which dominate our todays and threaten our tomorrows. Sometimes the threats are physical and put ...