Aug 6, 2017 | Sunday Morning
Have you ever had a really, really sore finger or toe? I am talking about the kind of hurt that makes you jump every time you touch it? I am talking about the proverbial “sore thumb.” This history of Ananias and Sapphira stick out of the Book of Acts like...
Jul 30, 2017 | Sunday Morning
Do you remember the first time you read the Book of John, or Romans, or Revelation? I know that this may be asking you to reach back a long way, and so this will be difficult. But if you can remember your first venture into the Book of Daniel or Song of Solomon it...
Jul 23, 2017 | Sunday Morning
Judy and I have been married for nearly fifty years with contingency plans to go another fifty. We have known each other since junior high school, so that makes our acquaintance nearly sixty years. Our lives have melded together; we are one in many ways. We think...
Jul 16, 2017 | Sunday Morning
For the last year and a half I have been pulling books out of my library and re-reading them. I suppose it started with Verduin’s “The Reformers and their Step-children,” which developed into a series of messages. The other day, I spotted a little...
Jul 9, 2017 | Sunday Morning
The average American is more ignorant of the Bible than he is of modern forensic science. He knows more about Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia than he does about Heaven. And he certainly knows more about Justin Bieber than he does about Jesus Christ. Our schools, our media, our...
Jul 2, 2017 | Sunday Morning
I make no apologies for being a creature of habit – and a preacher of repetition. There are things which I do just about every day – for example I almost always eat the same breakfast. And I repeat myself in the course of my sermons, saying the same thing again and...
Jun 25, 2017 | Sunday Morning
The famous Dr. Footinmouth climbs the platform on the last day of the annual church revival. He adjusts the microphone, tells a funny story and then begins to quote the King James Bible. He declares with a practiced tear in his voice – Jesus said, “Come unto me...
Jun 18, 2017 | Sunday Morning
What is the #1 intellectual stumbling block to evangelism today? Of course the first hindrance to evangelism is the average Christian’s lack of interest in evangelism. But what is the first argument heard when someone is trying to speak about Christ? I suppose it...
Jun 11, 2017 | Sunday Morning
It might be fun some day to explore the question: “What is has been the most terrifying event in your life?” There aren’t too many lions around here, but perhaps it was a dog attack or a visiting bear at camp. It might have been the threatening of a...
Jun 4, 2017 | Sunday Morning
Let’s say you have just read a book about the Pantanal – a region along the border of Paraguay and Brazil. The Pantanal is the world’s largest wetland – about the size of Colorado. In your reading you have learned about some of the natives who live there – the Ipicas...
May 28, 2017 | Sunday Morning
The last Sunday morning I was with you, which seems like a month ago, I brought up a word which I was afraid I was misusing – I wondered if I had the wrong definition. I am not sure I remember the word – that is how much water has flowed under my bridge in the last...
May 14, 2017 | Sunday Morning
This text comes at the end of a New Testament preaching service. But it was not a typical service – it was not a church service. We don’t know for sure, but it was unlikely that Stephen had ever preached like this before. He was not one of the Apostles; he was not a...
May 7, 2017 | Sunday Morning
I suppose it is true at many big companies, but it was certainly true where I used to work. In the filing cabinet right inside my office door was a copy of the company SOP. It was a big four-inch binder containing our “Standard Operations Procedures.” It...
Apr 30, 2017 | Sunday Morning
Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, knowing full well that this was His last trip to Israel’s capitol city. There have been thousands of people in similar situations – knowing they were on their last journey. People like Sidney Carlton in Dickens’ “Tail of two...
Apr 23, 2017 | Sunday Morning
This is a powerful sentence in a number of different ways. It takes us back to Calvary and the cross upon which the Saviour died. But the cross is not Paul’s purpose. It is primarily used as an illustration. But what is Paul’s purpose? What was the Holy Spirit trying...
