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Starting the New Year with 2 Corinthians – and YouVersion Live Events
We start the new year with a new study in 2 Corinthians. I’m really looking forward to teaching this book because of its relevance to our lives. It so happens that the culture of Corinth was really similar to our culture today, so much of what Paul addresses will apply easily to how we view [...]
Continue reading...Life Post Pitfalls
17. May 2010
My personal mission statement is embedded in the pastor/teacher role Paul referenced in Ephesians. I understand that to mean that I am specifically called to do my part in ‘equipping the saints to do the work of ministry’. Well, God has been pressing us in our call to make disciples, and we have been focusing [...]
Continue reading...My Funeral?
4. March 2010
As I was dropping off my teenage son at school today, we were listening to Blackbird by Alter Bridge. Since he is learning to play electric guitar, I asked him to learn this song and play it at my funeral. He laughed and went in to school. As I drove on to work, the incident [...]
Continue reading...Happiness
25. August 2009
Being asked to take up our cross doesn’t sound like a path to happiness, does it? This article got me thinking about happiness and our unquenchable thirst for it. The article is about online dating, and how it can be risky, esp. since it feeds our insatiable need to follow unrealistic feelings which are built [...]
Continue reading...Keys and Kids
14. August 2009
When I first looked at my text for this message, I never dreamed it was going to end up being about children. It’s that passage where Jesus talks about building his church on the Rock, and the gates of hell not prevailing against it, and how he was going to give the church the authority [...]
Continue reading...Control
7. August 2009
We try to control God. I know, we draw back when we hear that. But we do. It’s hard to let God be in charge. That’s what being Lord is all about, but most of us want to control our lives, our circumstances, etc. And we try to control God. We even insist that [...]
Continue reading...You Leak
1. August 2009
In the message, Interpreting Signs, I concluded that the Pharisees and Sadducees were blind to the signs at work around them. Well, I don’t want to be guilty of the same thing. What are the signs of God’s work around us? The most overriding one is how God fills us with his Spirit in our [...]
Continue reading...Joining the Missional Story
25. July 2009
Jesus is Missional. So Jesus feeds the 5000 (maybe 20,000 counting women and children) – Matt 14. Then, when Matt 16 begins, there are 4,000 who need to eat (maybe 15,000?), and the disciples say, “Where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd?” What the heck? They just [...]
Continue reading...More on Gauges
23. July 2009
My message a couple of weeks ago was on gauges. I was trying to illustrate Jesus’ teaching that it isn’t what goes into our mouths that defiles us, but what comes out. The main point was that it’s what we say and do that reveals the condition of our heart, thus our words/actions are like [...]
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