Seeing the Future

Seeing the Future (Fourth in a Series) Daniel 2:31-43 If you could pick one spot in all the world to go and sit for a few minutes, where would you go? I would not have to give it a second thought. For me it would be the summit of the Mount of Olives. When one sits t

Don’t Give Out … Be Persistent

Don't Give Out ... Be Persistent (Third in a Series) Daniel 1:17-21 I love those words in Daniel 1:21 - "Thus Daniel continued." He finished strongly! He was persistent. For 70 years he did not give in, nor did he give up, nor did he give out. He was not only resista

Don’t Give Up … Be Consistent

Don't Give Up ... Be Consistent (Second in a Series) Daniel 1:8-16 Often the tendency of so many of us is to be overcome and overrun by the culture around us. For some it becomes easier to simply give up trying to hold on to biblical principles and go along with the

Don’t Give In!

Don't Give In! (First in a Series) Daniel 1:1-8 Our current contemporary culture brings new challenges to our Christian faith with each passing day. Daniel was a young man who grew up in a culture of traditional family values. Then he unexpectedly found hims

Good Grief

Good Grief Isaiah 43:1-5; Revelation 7:16-17; John 11:28-36 I'll never forget the night my grandfather died. He'd become so ill, they had to take him to a nursing home. They actually didn't have to, I found out much later. They'd taken him to the hospital,

Grand-slam Christians

Grand-slam Christians Proverbs 27:17 When I was in the seventh grade, I played little league baseball in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The name of our team was the Seals. What a name for a baseball team, especially out in the plains of Oklahoma. We were worse than the Bad

Jesus and Prayer: Programming the God Machine?

Jesus and Prayer: Programming the God Machine? Mark 1:35-39 Several years ago my wife and I had the privilege of renting a little house in the middle part of France around Tours. We arrived on a Friday, and after we unpacked and became familiar with the hou

Living Worship

How shall we worship God? This is the great question of man in the religious world. It remains a question, also, in the church.

The Price of Freedom

The Price of Freedom (May-June 2003) 2 Peter 2:17-19 Hard days, difficult days, many young men who left these shores went because they believed that there were certain tyrannies in the world. They felt that these tyrannies would rob people of their freedom, and they decided

Commanding Love

Commanding Love (Lectionary Starters) Fifth Sunday after Easter, Year B May 25, 2003 John 15:9-17 Donald Charles Lacy, Pastor, Yorktown United Methodist Church, Yorktown, IN The death on the Cross continues to be explored 2,000 years later. Why would a totally innocent man suffer the excruc