05/28/2024
Anger & Forgiveness
Reflecting on Ryan's message, and looking forward to sharing "We Do Need An Anger Wrangler" with everyone on June 2. See you on Sunday!
05/24/2024
Below you’ll find my Artificial Intelligence response (ChatGPT) to the question: How would you improve the apostle Peter’s Pentecost Sermon from Acts, chapter 2?
05/06/2024
The Good Ship Savior: A Parable
A long, long time ago there were frequent shipwrecks up and down the East coast of this country. The coastline wasn’t entirely mapped and charted and there were uncertainties regarding the strange and unpredictable weather. Even though there were established cities and commerce, there seemed to always be one tragedy or another happening somewhere not too far out to sea.
04/29/2024
The End of the Jacob Series
What I find most comforting about the biblical person of Jacob is that though Jacob makes great strides in his faith and wisdom, he never quite gets all the way there.
Archived Posts
Prayer Changes Things
Here is a transcript of the prayer I prayed at the end of yesterday’s sermon.
Optimism, Faith, and Hope:
Practical Steps For Increasing All Three
Here are some practical, spiritual, and relational ways to grow faith, hope and optimism:
Listening Heart
It’s kind of crazy when you think about it. Wisdom in the Bible is all about listening. Of course it makes sense that wisdom would start with listening to God, to God’s law and commandments, as well as the promptings and leadings of the Holy Spirit.
Here are some quotes that
didn’t make it into Sunday’s sermon.
(But it doesn’t mean that they don’t offer real insight into the power of risk over the fear of failure...)
Such A Rich Passage (Luke 19:1-10)
I reflected a lot on the passage about Zacchaeus because it has been written off as “been there, read that, little guy in a tree.” But it is so rich in getting to the heart of what it means to be saved by grace through faith—to live our lives out of gratitude rather than obligation.