“Revive us, and we will call upon Your name... (Psalm 80: 18) If you meant to include Advent in your Christmas celebration this year, it officially started on Sunday...
- November 30, 2011 |
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:3). Our company has a set of really great tickets to the local minor league baseball team...
- November 29, 2011 |
"And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars..." Most of us don't love to wait.
- November 28, 2011 |
"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing..." Romans 15:13 For hope to exist, it looks like there has to be hopelessness first. A perfect world wouldn't need hope.
- November 25, 2011 |
Make a glad sound to the Lord, all the earth (Psalm 100). When I was younger, Thanksgiving was pretty much just another holiday...
- November 23, 2011 |
"...like newborn babies, [you all] long for the pure milk of the Word...(1 Peter 2:2). Not so simple and clear in the text is the fact that the command is a second-person plural.
- November 22, 2011 |
We have different gifts, according to the grace given us (Romans 12: 4-6) Holidays – how we would love for them to be simple.
- November 21, 2011 |
When we choose to be a servant, we give up the right to be in charge. When I first read the words “available and vulnerable”, my mind immediately went to what a personal ad might say.
- November 18, 2011 |
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (Matt. 22:37-38) Recently, my pastor encouraged our small group to pray and ask God to “break us”...
- November 17, 2011 |
"...be filled with the Spirit... (Eph. 5:18). A number of you may recall that, months ago, we began a journey through the works of Francis Schaeffer...
- November 16, 2011 |
But for that very reason I was shown mercy... (1 Tim 1). Paul is one of the most beloved Saints of all time...
- November 14, 2011 |
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13). Today, on Veterans Day, we honor all of those who serve.
- November 11, 2011 |
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom" (Colossians 3:16). Thanksgiving has got to be one of the most underrated holidays in America.
- November 10, 2011 |
"...like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your salvation" (1 Peter 2:2) Crave is a word of intense longing...
- November 09, 2011 |
And now I will show you the most excellent way (1 Cor 12: 31). Have you ever found yourself in a room of marriage cynics?
- November 07, 2011 |
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall... (Isaiah 40:30-31) . At this time of year, a lot is heading downward.
- November 04, 2011 |
“I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God" (1 Cor. 7:7). For the past few weeks my Church has been doing a series of sermons on relationships.
- November 03, 2011 |
O Lord, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes haughty... (Psalm 131:1-2). This song, like most of the Psalms, was written by David...
- November 01, 2011 |
Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died..." (John 11: 17) Most of us who’ve been around for more than a couple decades have experienced the death of a loved one.
- October 31, 2011 |
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer (Acts 2: 42). You know what’s not so great about getting older?
- October 28, 2011 |
