The Greatest Gift Ever Given

This Christmas sermon takes aim at the Gospel according to Santa Claus, reminding us that the season is not primarily about gifts given and received. Rather, Christmas is about how the love of God was demonstrated when God gave to us the greatest gift ever given: His only begotten Son.

I Shall Not Want: How God Meets Our Deepest Needs

Thanksgiving season can be a tense time for us as we gather with our families. We come to the Thanksgiving table weighed down with the bad memories, disappointments and unmet needs that often plague family life. This Thankgiving sermon offers the perfect prescription for peace this holiday season based on Psalm 23.

Some Insights about Preaching

Insights into preaching come in the strangest ways. Knowledge that they are true insights comes from a familiar place, that core out of which the preacher creates. Here then are four strange ones. Strange, but true. The first is...

Choose Life

Isaiah 55:1-9 To paraphrase an old country song, too many of us are "looking for life in all the wrong places." It's a shame, too. After all, just our being here is a miracle.