What Do I Want For Christmas?

God puts to us the same issue that God put before Ahaz on the road beside the fuller's field. Where do we turn when seeking to build a world? Do we turn to our limited, sin-distorted human ways, or do we trust in the unending promises of God, and in the way God reveals Himself through Christ? This sermon asks us what we want for Christmas, and encourages us to want what God wants for us.

We Interrupt This Christmas…

Christmas is all about interruptions. It is all about God breaking into neatly planned tightly wrapped, well-ordered lives and doing something new. This Christmas sermon invites us to hear God's call in the interruptions, to see them not as obstacles but as God-given opportunities.

Putting Power In Your Preaching

The 1992 movie entitled "Prelude to a Kiss" follows the traditional pattern of a romantic love affair. The characters Peter and Rita fall in love and get married. The prelude to the kiss was the giddiness of the newness of falling in love fast and furiously. This is what came before

From Worry To Trust

Matthew 6:25-34 Perhaps the finest golf coach America ever produced was the late Harvey Penick of Texas. He wrote the Little Red Book which is sort of the "golfer's Bible." Mr. Penick said that most golfers do not think on the golf course; they just worry. "Worrying is

Is My Main Motivation Really Love?

Twenty-first in a series1 Corinthians 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13) Question #1: Why do I do what I do that is religious in nature? That is an awkward question, isn't it? Think about it. You are a religious pe

One Body, Many Parts

Twentieth in a series1 Corinthians 12:12-31 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. (1 Corinthians 12:12) A parable is told about a group of animals deciding to improve their general welfare by starti

Why Do We Serve?

Mark 10:32-45 It is one of the most famous episodes of the classic television show The Twilight Zone. A race of aliens has landed on earth. They are much more advanced than human beings. They present a gift to the residents of earth, a book written in the aliens' language, the translated

How Do You View God?

Exodus 34:6 The title of the lead article in USA Today on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 recorded: "View of God Can Reveal Your Values Politics." Sociologists at Baylor University conducted the new national survey of 1,721 Americans, consisting of 77 questions, with almost 400 answer