Discourses After Death: An Unexpected Encounter
Richard Connell, in his famous story The Most Dangerous Game, describes the adventure of his hero, Sanger Rainsford, one of the world’s most celebrated big-game hunters. En route to a hunting expedition along the coast of South America, Rainsford accidentally falls from his speeding yacht at night. He is a strong swimmer so he manages…
Career Opportunities: Are You a Co-worker or Consumer?
If you think about it, every church is made up of 2 types of individuals: co-workers and consumers. A consumer is a spectator. A co-worker is a participator. A consumer shows up late to the service. A co-worker arrives early. A consumer criticizes everything that doesn’t line up with his or her preferences. A co-worker…
An Unexpected Encounter
Richard Connell, in his famous story, The Most Dangerous Game, describes his lead character, Sanger Rainsfield, as being a world renowned celebrated big game hunter. On one occasion, he was heading to the coast of South America to hunt and he was driving…or as he was leading and directing his yacht, he came across a…
Igniting a Fire
In 1983, a 50 year old tradition was quietly dropped by the U.S. House of Representatives when they decided to end this tradition of the reading of the Farewell Address by George Washington. You see, what would happen every year is that every other year, a Democrat and a Republican would get up and read…
Your Foundation Determines Your Destination
On Sunday, I preached from Matthew 7:21-27 (ESV): “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast…
Reality Check: Seeing Is Believing
On Sunday, I began a new sermon series on 1 John that we are calling “Reality Check”. We start with verse 1-4. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— the…
Reality Check: How To Shipwreck Your Fellowship With God
On Sunday, I continued our sermon series on 1 John that we are calling Reality Check. Many of the polls today suggest that one-third of Americans claim to be born again believers. Church attendance may cause you to celebrate thinking that Christianity is alive and well in our country. But if you probe a little…
Reality Check: An Assurance That You Can Be Sure Of
John is going to show us that how we live reveals who we’re living for. He points out the birthmarks of a true Christian so that we can be certain of our salvation. 1 John 2: 1–11 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if…
Reality Check: Who Do You Love?
1 John 2:7–14 ESV Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you,…
The Untouchable Faith
Let’s start with the last verse of this chapter in order to understand why the account of Thomas is so important in the book of John. John 20:30, “Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples that are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may believe…
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